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.
This Calendar Math Worksheet gives 3rd graders a full month of school events to read, then four multi-step problems on days, dates, and weeks. Answer key included, so practice is quick to check and easy to reteach.
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 and how long until summer
Third graders use calendars to solve real time problems. They know the months in order and how many days each one has, and they count forward and back to find elapsed time in days and weeks: if today is March 3, then March 3 + 14 days = March 17. They learn that 7 days make a week, about 4 weeks make a month, and 12 months make a year. The click is when kids can answer "How many days until my birthday?" all on their own.
Calendar skills get stronger with a little daily use. These are our favorite moves.
Give each child a blank calendar and have them fill in the dates for next month, starting on the right day of the week. Then they add birthdays, holidays and a class event. Building it makes the layout make sense.
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 →Post one quick question each morning: "What date is 10 days from today?" or "How many Fridays are in this month?" Kids answer on a sticky note. Two minutes a day builds real fluency.
Why it works: pulling an answer out of memory makes it stick far better than rereading it, one of the strongest findings in learning research (Dunlosky and colleagues, 2013).
Try it withCalendar Math WorksheetAssessmentsOpen it →Show kids how to jump down a calendar column to add 7 days at a time. Practice it a few minutes each day for two weeks. Soon they can find a date three weeks away in seconds.
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 withUpwords Capitalizing Words ActivityActivitiesOpen it →Calendars can be a game, too. Kids love these:
Teacher favorites right now: Blank Calendar, Calendar Math Worksheet and Months of the Year Classroom Signs.
Third graders should know the days of the week and months in order, read dates on a calendar, and figure out how many days or weeks are between two dates.
Try the knuckle trick: make two fists and count months across your knuckles and the dips between them. Knuckle months have 31 days, and dip months have 30 or fewer.
Start on the first date, then count the jumps to the second date. Counting by whole weeks first, then extra days, keeps it quick and accurate.
Hang a family calendar where your child can see it. Ask them to find dates for trips, birthdays or practices, and count how many days are left.
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