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!
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.
The Months of the Year Fill in the Blanks Worksheet gives 2nd grade students a calendar year with six months missing, a scrambled word box, roomy writing lines, and an answer key.
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.
Using Upwords Capitalizing Words Activity, students practice capitalizing days of the week, months of year, and names
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, months and more
Second graders learn to read a calendar like a pro. They know the 7 days of the week and the 12 months in order, find a date like Tuesday, March 14, and answer questions such as "What day is one week from today?" They count days and weeks between events, notice that months have 28, 30 or 31 days, and connect months to the four seasons. The click moment is when kids can count down to their own birthday on the class calendar.
Calendars make sense when kids use them every day. These moves build that daily habit.
Start morning meeting with the Months of the Year song and point to each month as you sing. After a week, stop the music and let kids finish the list. Singing makes the order automatic.
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 withMonths of the Year Song (MP3)SongsOpen it →Give each student a blank calendar to fill in for the current month: the month name, the dates, and special days like birthdays or field trips. Building it by hand shows how weeks and dates line up.
Why it works: going from real objects to pictures to symbols is a core recommendation of the U.S. Department of Education's elementary math guide.
Try it withBlank CalendarWorksheetsOpen it →Ask one quick calendar question each morning: "What date is next Friday?" or "How many days until the weekend?" Kids answer on whiteboards. Daily questions build real calendar fluency.
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 Fill in the Blanks WorksheetWorksheetsOpen it →Calendar time can be the best part of the day.
GamesRace through calendar challenges on screen, finding days, dates and months as fast as you can.
Open Calendar Game →
VideosSing the Days of the Week song and do a different move for each day.
Open Days of the Week Song (Lyric Music Video) →
ActivitiesMatch each month to its season and draw what you like to do in that season.
Open Four Seasons Activity →Teacher favorites right now: Blank Calendar, Calendar Game and Months of the Year Song (MP3).
They should know the days of the week and months of the year in order, read and write dates, and answer questions like "What day comes after?" or "How many weeks until?"
Sing a months song daily, hang a calendar at home, and mark special days together. The knuckle trick also helps kids remember which months have 31 days.
Show where the month name, days of the week and dates are. Then practice finding specific dates and counting forward or backward by days and weeks.
Most months have 30 or 31 days. February has 28 days, or 29 in a leap year. The rhyme "Thirty days hath September" can help kids remember.
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