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.
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.
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 a great day to count!
For a preschooler, the calendar is less about dates and more about the big idea that time has a pattern. Kids learn that there are seven days in a week, that the days always come in the same order, and that yesterday, today and tomorrow are three different things. They start to recognize the names of the months and notice their own birthday month. Counting the days on the calendar is also sneaky number practice: 1, 2, 3 ... 20, every single morning!
Calendar time works best when it is short, sung and the same every day. Here is how we keep little ones engaged.
Start calendar time with the same days of the week song every day. Kids clap on today's day and point to it on the calendar. Within a couple of weeks, they will be singing it in the car on the way to school.
Why it works: words set to a repeating melody are easier to recall than the same words spoken (Wallace, 1994).
Try it withDays of the Week Song (Lyric Music Video)SongsOpen it →Give each child a blank calendar page for the month. They color in each day after it happens and draw a tiny picture on special days. Seeing the colored boxes grow helps them feel time passing.
Why it works: kids understand an idea best when they touch it, then draw it, then write it, the order the U.S. Department of Education recommends for elementary math.
Try it withBlank CalendarWorksheetsOpen it →Every day ask just one: "What day is today?" "What day was yesterday?" "How many days until Friday?" Short and repeated beats a long lesson, and you will hear the answers getting faster.
Why it works: the brain holds on to what it meets again and again over time; spaced practice was rated among the very best methods (Dunlosky and colleagues, 2013).
Try it withDays of the Week ActivityActivitiesOpen it →Little ones learn time best when they are moving, singing and laughing.
GamesTape the days of the week on the floor in order. Call a day and kids hop to it, then hop to the day that comes next.
Open Calendar Game →
VideosMarch around the room singing the months. Everyone jumps high when their birthday month comes up!
Open Months of the Year Song (MP3) →
SongsPlay the days of the week song at home or on the way to school. Ask your child to shout out today's day when it plays.
Open Days of the Week Song (MP3) →Teacher favorites right now: Blank Calendar, Calendar Game and Months of the Year Song (MP3).
Most children start saying the days in order around ages 3 to 4, especially with a song. Understanding yesterday and tomorrow usually comes a little later, around 4 to 5.
Keep it to about 5 to 10 minutes. Preschoolers learn best from a short, predictable routine repeated every day.
Hang a simple calendar at child height and cross off each day together at bedtime. Talk about what happened today and what is coming tomorrow, like a visit to grandma.
They do not need to master them, but hearing the months in a song helps. Most preschoolers start by knowing their own birthday month and the season it falls in.
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