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Kindergarten · Social Studies · Unit 8 of 14

Days, Weeks & Months

Putting time in order

What your child practices

Days of the week, months of the year, yesterday and tomorrow, and putting events in order on a calendar.

Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) teks student expectation: K.14(B) · days, weeks and months, and using time words correctly

How we explain it

Children can open this short lesson before they practice.

  1. A week has 7 days. Saturday and Sunday are the weekend.
  2. A year has 12 months. January is first.
  3. December is the last month.

Example: Which day comes before Saturday? The days go: Thursday, Friday, Saturday. Friday is just before Saturday. Answer: Friday

Days, Weeks & Months in Texas

In the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS), this is unit 8 of 14 in Kindergarten Social Studies, after Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow and before Find Out & Sort.

Gradelings describes a child's practice on this unit as Beginning, Approaching, Meeting or Exceeding (Four practice steps). That reflects practice, not a report-card mark: the teacher decides the mark.

Source: Texas Education Agency (TEA)

Sample questions

A taste of this unit. In the app, questions change every time and get easier or harder to match your child.

  1. Question 1

    Which happens last?

    • You go to sleep.
    • You go to school.
    • You wake up.
    • You eat lunch.

  2. Question 2

    You eat breakfast, then lunch, then…

    • a nap at dawn
    • the alarm clock
    • breakfast again
    • dinner

  3. Question 3

    Which do we use to see days and months?

    • a calendar
    • a spoon
    • a ball
    • a crayon

  4. Question 4

    Which happens first?

    • The flower blooms.
    • The plant grows tall.
    • You pick the flower.
    • You plant a seed.

  5. Question 5

    How many days are in one week?

    • 12
    • 10
    • 5
    • 7

  6. Question 6

    Which word means a time before you were born?

    • long ago
    • next week
    • tomorrow
    • tonight

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