Put the Days of the Week in Order

Put the days of the week in order games

Instructions for teachers

Choose which set of cards below you want to use and photocopy and cut up one set per class, or one set per group of two to four students if you want them to do the activity in groups.

There are several activities which can be done with these cards, maybe in this order:

• Drill the names of the days of the week as you lay the cards on the table in order, move some of the cards while students are looking and ask them to put them back in order as quickly as they can (on their own, or working together)
• Put all the cards into a pack, shuffle them, then ask students to put them in order
• Put all the cards into a pack, secretly remove one, shuffle the other cards, then ask students to put the days which are there in order and spot which day is missing

If students will find this difficult due to reading level etc, you can start with fewer cards, e.g. just laying out and mixing up Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday.

The other students can take the teacher’s role in any of these games, and the games are also easy enough to be played in pairs or small groups.

The written practice below can be done before, between or after any of these games.

 

Basic days of the week version 

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

Sunday

 

Common abbreviations for days of the week version 

Mon

Tues

Wed

Thurs

Fri

Sat

Sun

 

Shortest abbreviations for days of the week version 

M	F
Tu	Sa
W	Su
Th

Days of the week spelling practice

Without looking at the cards or below, try to write the ending of each day of the week below.

• Mon________________
• Tues________________
• Wed________________
• Thurs________________
• Fri_________________
• Sat________________
• Sun_________________

 

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Use the mixed answers below to help with the spelling task above.

day

day

day

day

day

nesday

urday

 

Check with the cards. 

Without looking at the cards or above, try to write the ending of each day of the week below.

• M________________
• Tu________________
• W________________
• Th________________
• F_________________
• Sa________________
• Su_________________

 

-------------------------------fold, cover or cut----------------------------------

 

Use the mixed answers below to help with the task above, then check your answers.

ednesday

esday

nday

onday

riday

turday

ursday

 

Without looking above or below, write the start of each of the days below. They are already in the right order.

_____________________day

_____________________day

_____________________nesday

_____________________day

_____________________day

_____________________urday

_____________________day

 

-------------------------------fold, cover or cut----------------------------------

 

Use the mixed answers below to help with the spelling task above.

• Fri
• Mon
• Sat
• Sun
• Thurs
• Tues
• Wed

Check with the cards.