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All children learn about the days of the week in preschool and kindergarten. Try using these fun days of the week activities.

Fun Days of the Week Activities

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FUN DAYS OF THE WEEK ACTIVITIES

All children learn about the days of the week in preschool and kindergarten. Children learn differently and so here are a variety of activities to help all children learn the days of the week.  Try using these fun days of the week activities in your classroom.

SING SONGS TO LEARN THE DAYS OF THE WEEK

Many children love to sing and singing helps many children remember things better. Starting off with a song about the seven days of the week and singing it often will help them learn the words.

“Do You Know the Days of the Week?” is a fun song that used color and shapes to help children remember the days of the week.

“What Do You Do on the Seven Days of the Week?” is a song with an animal for each day.

Children will love making the connections between Sunday and Snake, Monday Monkey, Tuesday Turtle, Wednesday Whale, Thursday Tiger, Friday Frog and Saturday Squirrel.

The YouTube Video is a complete lesson you can use in your classroom. It’s a fun days of the week activity your students will love!

Or you can check out each individual song activity.

Seven Days of the Week Song and Activities: (Read, Sing, Move, Write) Video

Days of the Week Movement Song and Activities: (Read, Sing, Move, Write) Video

MOVEMENT ACTIVITIES TO LEARN THE DAYS OF THE WEEK

Movement is an essential element of early childhood learning.  Incorporating movement with learning the days of the week can help the children learn them quicker and have fun too!

Use a different movement for each day of the week. That will make learning fun!

Just say the day and do the moves to some music.

Some fun moves are:

  • SUNDAY SWIM
  • MONDAY MELT
  • TUESDAY TOUCH TOES
  • WEDNESDAY WAVE
  • THURSDAY TAP HEAD
  • FRIDAY FREEZE
  • SATURDAY STEP RIGHT AND LEFT

You can use any music!

Or, try a different song for each day and only do one day at a time. 

Play the song and let the children dance away. 

This is our Thursday song! YaY!

In our resources we use these actions.

  • Sunday and Slide like a Snake
  • Monday Dance like a Monkey
  • Tuesday Swim like a Turtle
  • Wednesday Whoosh like a Whale
  • Thursday Crawl like a Tiger
  • Friday Hop like a Frog
  • Saturday run like a Squirrel

We created an interactive game students can use to move and learn the days of the week.

Children will love moving like the animals for each day of the week. 

Use the presentation to teach the days and the actions and then students can self-direct using the google slides interactive game.

Your students will easily learn the days of the week after playing this fun game.

Students will make connections with the animals in the visuals too.

DAYS OF THE WEEK GAME LINK TO TPT

READING DAYS OF THE WEEK ACTIVITIES

Children can learn to identify the letters in the days of the week many ways.

Depending on the age of the children, they will learn to read the words at different times.

Try pausing the video and reading the letters aloud and have the children echo you. You can use posters or just write them yourself on some paper.

Soon they’ll be able to read the words too!

Keep on using a variety of days of the weeks activities over time. Repetition really works!

WRITING DAYS OF THE WEEK ACTIVITIES

After children sing and move to the days of the week they may be ready for some coloring, writing and craft activities.

  • Use playdough to make the shapes of the letters in the day of the week you’re working on that day.
  • Paint the word.
  • Write the word in shaving cream or sand.
  • Write the word with chalk.

Incorporate some tracing as well as coloring activities to offer a variety of writing opportunities.

We’ve also included a cut and glue activity that works well for children who can read.

Days of the weeks activities can be simple and easy to implement activities for the home or the classroom. 

Children love being actively engaged in the learning. 

I’m hoping that you got some ideas to incorporate a variety of activities including singing, moving, reading and writing to help your students and children learn the days of the week.

The days of the week’s activities BUNDLE has everything you need to help your students learn the days of the week.

GET THE BUNDLE HERE (Teachers Pay Teachers Link)

This bundle includes all the materials in each resource.

Each resource has a video and activities as well as google slides, worksheets, posters, flash cards for a variety of learning opportunities.

Take a look at some of our popular educational materials!

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Sandra from Sing Play Create
All children learn about the days of the week in preschool and kindergarten. Try using these fun days of the week activities.
All children learn about the days of the week in preschool and kindergarten. Try using these fun days of the week activities.

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Meet Sandra

Hi there!  I’m Sandra, one of the authors behind Sing Play Create.  My goal is to provide teachers with interactive resources and activities to improve the effectiveness of their teaching and enhance student learning.

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