Days, Weeks, Months & Years
Recognise and use language relating to dates, including days of the week, weeks, months, and years
Lesson
Set out your lesson
“Time words help us talk about dates. There are seven days in a week. There are twelve months in a year. Weeks and months fit inside a year.”
Bring to the table
- Ready day cards: Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday
- Ready month strip or calendar page showing all twelve months
- Paper for today’s date labels
Extra for the adult
Worked example. Days: Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday. A year has twelve months. Seven days make one week.
Optional challenge. Name the month before and after this month, and say about how many weeks are in a year if one month is about four weeks.
What to notice. Save a photo of the ordered day cards or a parent note: “days in order; yesterday/today correct; 12 months in a year.”
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Time words help us talk about dates. There are seven days in a week. There are twelve months in a year. Weeks and months fit inside a year.
Spend about 10–15 minutes ordering days, naming today/yesterday, and scanning the twelve months.
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Learning resources
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Illustrative Mathematics · Practice link — not the full lesson
Growing Bean Plants
Before you open · source notes
Growing Bean Plants supports thinking across days and weeks with a growing record. Not every calendar worksheet pack.
Free, no sign-in. A teacher solution is on the same page, so use the student view with your child.
Before you openAsk the learner how many days or weeks the plant grew and what changed.
Opening this link does not save learning or assess mastery.
Source, access and review notes
Public Illustrative Mathematics task page. The .html address responds HTTP 308 to this URL. An anonymous GET of this URL on 2026-11-12 returned HTTP 200 with no login or payment prompt. Where a teacher solution is present, it is on the same page as the student task; this check did not find a separate locked student view. An adult can use the student view section and should not read a solution aloud. Advertising was not observed in the fetched HTML text; that is not a browser, device, or ad-free guarantee. This is a paper or discussion task, not an automatically marked interactive game. Opening the link does not save practice or assess mastery. Diagrams on the page use missing or filename-only alt text, so they are not an accessible image equivalent. Accessibility still depends on an adult describing the picture.
Illustrative Mathematics. “Growing Bean Plants.” Licensed CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. External task; Gakuva does not copy, host, embed, or redistribute it.
CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 — link only
Check understanding
- Name the seven days of the week in order
- Name the twelve months of the year in order
- Understand that a year is made up of months and weeks
“If you ask your child what day it is today, what day yesterday was, and what month we're in, can they answer all three — and tell you how many months are in a year?”
Curriculum record
- Type
- Language
- Subject
- Mathematics
- Domain
- Measurement
- Age range
- Ages 5–8
Standards