A printable, ready-to-use blank calendar with a landscape monthly grid and labeled day columns. Great for Kindergarten through 5th grade classrooms to map out lessons, holidays, and daily routines—just add the month and the dates.
A calendar game where kids build this month’s real calendar with Sunny: put the days of the week in order, count the days, then answer today, yesterday and tomorrow and pick the weather. Play online on any phone, tablet, Chromebook or computer.
Using the Months of the Year Song (MP3), students learn all about the months of the year in order to remember the order to build their calendar skills.
This four seasons activity has children sort 12 picture cards and play a spinner game. Made for Kindergarten to 2nd Grade, with a practice page and answer key included.
Using the Days of the Week Song (Lyric Music Video), students learn all about the days of the week in order to remember the order that they come in a week!
Using the Days of the Week Song (MP3), students learn all about the days of the week in order to remember the order that they come in a week!
Students complete the week on this Days of the Week Worksheet - Fill in the Blank, writing the missing days and finishing three sentences. Built for 1st grade with an answer key included, so calendar practice takes no prep.
This months of the year activity is a picture card game for 1st and 2nd grade: put the months in order and sort them by season, with a practice page. Answer key included.
This months of the year writing worksheet helps 1st grade students write a sentence about an activity for each month from January to June while practicing the calendar order.
These Months of the Year Classroom Signs can be used as headers for your calendars or white boards when teaching about months of the year.
This Writing Days of the Week Abbreviations Worksheet gives 1st graders two-way practice with day abbreviations: write the whole day, then shorten it. Answer key included for fast, no-prep calendar and conventions review.
Using Upwords Capitalizing Words Activity, students practice capitalizing days of the week, months of year, and names
Using L.1.2 First Grade Common Core Lesson, students use commas to separate single words in a series.
These Days of the Week Classroom Signs can be used headers for your calendars or white boards when teaching about days of the week.
Build a rainbow day train with this days of the week activity for Preschool through 1st Grade, then solve before-and-after day questions. Answer key included.
Days, months and a whole year of fun
First graders learn that a calendar is a map of time. They name the 7 days of the week and the 12 months in order, find today's date, and answer questions like "What day comes after Tuesday?" or "How many Fridays are in March?" They also notice patterns: every week starts over on Sunday, and every month has a first day and a last day. The big click comes when kids realize yesterday, today and tomorrow are just three boxes in a row on the same page.
Calendar skills grow a little every single morning. These are the moves that turn a wall chart into real understanding.
Play the Months of the Year Song and have one helper point to each month on the class calendar as it is sung. After a week, pause the song and ask, "Which month comes next?" Kids who can't recite the list yet can usually sing it.
Why it works: words set to a repeating melody are easier to recall than the same words spoken (Wallace, 1994).
Try it withMonths of the Year Song (MP3)SongsOpen it →Hand out a blank calendar on the first day of the month. Kids write the month name, number the boxes, and draw a tiny picture on birthdays, holidays and special days. A calendar they built themselves is one they actually read.
Why it works: children learn more from words and pictures together than from words alone (Mayer, 2009).
Try it withBlank CalendarWorksheetsOpen it →Ask one quick question at morning meeting: "What will the date be in 3 days?" or "Which day is the last Saturday?" Rotate in a round of the Calendar Game on Fridays. Short daily retrieval beats one long calendar unit.
Why it works: researchers who compared ten study methods found practice testing is one of the two that work best (Dunlosky and colleagues, 2013).
Try it withCalendar GameGamesOpen it →Calendar time doesn't have to be the same routine every day. Mix in these kid favorites.
ActivitiesShuffle the month cards and race to put them back in order. Then find your birthday month!
Open Months of the Year Activity →
WorksheetsKids fill in the missing days of the week and read the whole list aloud like a chant.
Open Days of the Week Worksheet - Fill in the Blank →
ActivitiesMatch months to winter, spring, summer and fall, and talk about what the weather is like in each.
Open Four Seasons Activity →Teacher favorites right now: Blank Calendar, Calendar Game and Months of the Year Song (MP3).
A first grader should name the days of the week and months of the year in order, find today's date, and use a calendar to answer simple questions like "What day was yesterday?" Many also start writing the full date, such as Monday, October 26.
Songs are the fastest route. Sing the months daily, then point to each one on a real calendar so the words connect to the page. Linking months to birthdays and holidays gives each one a memory hook.
Time is invisible, and 6-year-olds think in "now" and "not now." A calendar turns time into boxes they can see and count. Daily, short calendar routines build that sense far better than a one-week unit.
Hang a family calendar at kid height and let your child cross off each day. Ask, "How many sleeps until Saturday?" and count the boxes together. Five minutes a day is plenty.
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