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.
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.
These Days of the Week Classroom Signs can be used headers for your calendars or white boards when teaching about days of the week.
Days, weeks and countdowns
By 4th grade, calendars become a real math tool. Kids use them to solve elapsed time problems that span days and weeks: "If the field trip is on the 24th and today is the 9th, how many days away is it?" They convert between units, like 3 weeks = 21 days and 1 year = 12 months = 52 weeks, and learn which months have 30 or 31 days. Planning a project on a blank calendar teaches them to count forward and backward with skip counting by 7s. The click moment comes when kids realize every row is a week, so jumping down one row is always plus 7.
A calendar is a number chart in disguise. These moves help kids see it that way.
Give each student a blank calendar for next month. They fill in the dates, mark three real class events and figure out how many days are between each one. Making their own calendar is way more memorable than reading one.
Why it works: the U.S. Department of Education's guide for teaching elementary math recommends moving from hands-on objects to drawings to numbers.
Try it withBlank CalendarWorksheetsOpen it →Point to a date and ask, "What date is one week later? Two weeks earlier?" Kids answer by moving up and down rows. Quick oral rounds build the habit of using the grid instead of counting every square.
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 withMonths of the Year Classroom SignsOpen it →Each morning, ask one calendar question: "How many days until Friday?" "What will the date be in 10 days?" One minute a day keeps the skill sharp all year.
Why it works: spreading practice out over days is one of the two most effective study methods in a major research review (Dunlosky and colleagues, 2013).
Try it withDays of the Week Classroom SignsOpen it →Teacher favorites right now: Blank Calendar, Months of the Year Classroom Signs and Days of the Week Classroom Signs.
They should read dates, count days between events, convert between days, weeks, months and years, and solve elapsed time word problems that use a calendar.
Try the knuckle trick: make fists and count months across your knuckles and the dips between. Knuckle months have 31 days; dips have 30, except February.
There are 52 weeks and 1 day in a regular year, and 52 weeks and 2 days in a leap year.
Hang a family calendar and ask your child to count down to trips, holidays and birthdays. Have them check by counting rows of 7.
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