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.
A wide, landscape blank calendar landscape worksheet with a full month grid and Sunday-through-Saturday columns. Perfect for kindergarten and elementary students to fill in dates, track events, and practice the days of the week.
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!
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.
In this what day is this reading comprehension worksheet, Kindergarten readers follow Mia through her school week and answer five fill-in-the-bubble questions about the days. Answer key included.
A blank calendar portrait worksheet with labeled days of the week and roomy date boxes, ready for any month of any year. Perfect for Kindergarten morning meeting, date counting, and tracking classroom events.
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.
Today is... let's find out!
Kindergartners meet the calendar through a daily routine. They learn that a calendar shows days, weeks and months, chant the days of the week, and start using the words yesterday, today and tomorrow. Counting the days of school, finding today's number and noticing the weekend are all part of it. It's early math too: counting, number recognition and patterns in the rows. The click comes when a child points to the calendar on Friday and shouts, "Tomorrow is Saturday, no school!"
For five-year-olds, calendar time works best as a short, lively daily routine.
Start calendar time with a days of the week song and point to each day on the chart as it's sung. Stop on today and ask, "What day is it?" A daily song makes the order automatic by winter.
Why it works: a catchy, repeating tune gives the brain a hook to hang words on, so sung text is remembered better (Wallace, 1994).
Try it withDays of the Week Song (Lyric Music Video)SongsOpen it →Post a big blank calendar and let a helper add today's number each morning. Mark birthdays and special days with a picture. Watching the boxes fill up turns time into something kids can see.
Why it works: pairing a picture with each word gives kids two ways to remember it, a well-tested principle of how people learn (Mayer, 2009).
Try it withBlank Calendar Landscape WorksheetWorksheetsOpen it →Give seven kids day cards and have them line up in order. Then ask, "Who comes after Wednesday?" Swap cards and do it again. Moving bodies make the sequence stick for wiggly learners.
Why it works: in a well-known study, a few short sessions of a simple number board game measurably boosted young children's number skills (Ramani and Siegler, 2008).
Try it withDays of the Week ActivityActivitiesOpen it →Calendar fun that keeps the routine fresh.
GamesSpin, move and answer calendar questions on a playful game board.
Open Calendar Game →
AssessmentsRead a short story about the days of the week and answer questions about it.
Open What Day is This Reading Comprehension Worksheet →
ActivitiesMatch pictures to the four seasons and talk about which season it is now.
Open Four Seasons Activity →Teacher favorites right now: Blank Calendar, Calendar Game and Months of the Year Song (MP3).
Kindergartners should know the days of the week in order and use yesterday, today and tomorrow. Many also start naming the months and finding today's date with help.
About 5 to 10 minutes is plenty. Keep it lively with songs and helpers, and save extra calendar skills for other parts of the day.
Use the calendar every day: point to today, then move one box back for yesterday and one forward for tomorrow. Talk about what you did yesterday and what's happening tomorrow.
Hang a simple calendar and let your child mark each day. Count the days until a special event together and sing the days of the week in the car.
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