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# Days, Weeks, Months & Years

Recognise and use language relating to dates, including days of the week, weeks, months, and years

Subject: Mathematics · Area: Measurement · Ages 5 to 6
Page: https://lightmysky.com/learn/mathematics/days-weeks-months-and-years-mt_bj1YCgNWUx

## Ready when they can

- 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

## Lesson: Days, weeks, months, and years

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.

*(drawing: This row starts with Sunday. After Saturday, the order returns to Sunday.)*

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.

*(drawing: The first six months. July comes next.)*

*(drawing: The last six months.)*

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.

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.

**Recap.** A week has seven days, and a year has twelve months.

*This calendar lesson, its questions and flashcards were written for this dataset.*

## Practice

17 questions on this page, each with its working shown.

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- [Ancient Egypt on the Timeline](https://lightmysky.com/learn/history/ancient-egypt-on-the-timeline-mt_pTz6u49fQt)