Days, Weeks, Months & Years
Recognise and use language relating to dates, including days of the week, weeks, months, and years
What a learner can do afterwards
- Name the seven days of the week in order
- Name the twelve months of the year in order
- Count days in full weeks using seven days per week, and recognise that a year has twelve months and about fifty-two weeks
1 · Read
A week has seven days: Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday. After Saturday comes Sunday again. The names repeat in this order. Some calendars show Sunday first in a row; others show Monday first. That changes the row, not which day comes next.
Yesterday is one day before today. Tomorrow is one day after today. If today is Thursday, yesterday was Wednesday and tomorrow is Friday. To count days later, count tomorrow as day one. From Wednesday, Thursday is one day later, Friday is two, and Saturday is three.
A year has twelve months: January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December. These are month names, not day names. January is first and December is last. Move one place forward for the next month, or one place back for the previous month. After December ends, January begins a new year.
A year lasts about fifty-two weeks. A week can cross from one month into the next. Do not use four weeks as an exact length for every month. Each week has seven days. To count days in several weeks, count seven for each week. Three weeks have three rows of seven days, making twenty-one days.
Each row represents one week. Each dot represents one day.
To count months in a plan, include its starting and ending months. To count months left in a year, begin after the last full month that has ended. If March has just ended, count April through December. Seven days later is one whole week later, so the weekday name is the same again.
A week has seven days, and a year has twelve months.
This calendar lesson, its questions and flashcards were written for this dataset.
These readings and extra questions were written for this dataset. The flashcards practise day, week, month and year facts.
More to read
Read the day order
One calendar may put Sunday at the start of each row. Another may put Monday there. Both can show the same repeating day order. Saturday is followed by Sunday, then Monday. For tomorrow, move to the next day even if you need a new row. For yesterday, move back one day.
When a month ends
The months run from January to December. A week can continue while one month ends and the next begins. Its seven days may belong to two months. After December ends, January starts a new year. There are twelve months in a year and about fifty-two weeks. Four weeks is not an exact length for every month.
Count days and months
To count days later, begin with tomorrow as the first step. Keep moving through the day names. Seven steps bring you back to the same weekday. Counting named months in a plan is different: include each month the plan covers. If a plan starts in June and ends in July, count both June and July.
2 · Watch
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Where this leads
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