Days of the Week Tracing Worksheets

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7 words (Days of the week), trace and write, on 2 pages, Letter portrait.

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Sample sentences used in the examples

Today is, for every day 7

  • Today is Friday. For most countries the working week ends here. Tomorrow is Saturday.
  • Today is Monday. The line for the first school day. 3 words, 2 capitals: the T that starts the sentence and the M of the day.
  • Today is Saturday. A weekend line, 18 characters with the period, as long as the line for Thursday.
  • Today is Sunday. Tomorrow is Monday. On a calendar that starts on Sunday this is the first line of the week.
  • Today is Thursday. Two capital Ts on one line: Today and Thursday.
  • Today is Tuesday. Yesterday was Monday and tomorrow is Wednesday. Say both aloud before tracing.
  • Today is Wednesday. The longest of the seven lines, 19 characters with the period. The middle of the school week.
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Sentence strips to finish 4

  • My birthday is in A strip that ends in a month. The child writes the month on the rest of the row, capital first.
  • Today is A sentence strip: only the two words are dotted, and the rest of the row stays empty for the child to write the day. Print it once and copy it for every morning.
  • Tomorrow will be The strip for the day after. With Today is and Yesterday was it makes a three-line morning routine.
  • Yesterday was The strip for the day before. The child looks one square back on the calendar and writes that day.

The order of the days 4

  • A week has seven days. The number as a word, for a child who can already write the numeral 7.
  • Saturday and Sunday are the weekend. In most of the world the working week runs Monday to Friday, with Saturday and Sunday as the weekend.
  • Thursday comes before Friday. Thurs has ur and Fri has no u: a line to trace slowly.
  • Tuesday comes after Monday. Two day names on one line. Ask which day comes after Tuesday before the child turns the page.

Months and the year 5

  • A year has twelve months. Seven of them have 31 days, four have 30, and February has 28 or 29.
  • December is the last month. The twelfth month, with 31 days. Its name comes from Latin decem, ten.
  • February is the shortest month. 28 days, and 29 in a leap year, when the year has 366 days.
  • January is the first month. January opens the year and has 31 days.
  • September means seven. From Latin septem. It was the seventh month when the Roman year began in March, and kept its name as the ninth.

How this list was compiled: Written for this site. Checked on 2026-09-19: the working week and the weekend at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Workweek_and_weekend; the week of seven days at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Week; the lengths of the months and the leap year of 366 days at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregorian_calendar; September from Latin septem and the Roman year that began in March at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September; December from decem at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Month. Character counts were counted. Licence: own work

The spelling lists

Days of the week 7

  • Friday Named after the goddess Frīg. For most countries the working week ends on Friday. Front part: Fri. 6 letters.
  • Monday The Moon's day, from Old English Mōnandæg. It is day 1 of the week in the ISO 8601 standard. Learn the front part, Mon, and add day. 6 letters.
  • Saturday Saturn's day, the only one of the seven that kept a Roman name in English. The front part is Satur, with the same ur as Thursday. 8 letters.
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Days of the week, continued

  • Sunday The sun's day, from Old English Sunnandæg. Calendars in the United States, Canada and Japan print it as the first day of the week. 6 letters.
  • Thursday Thunder's day: it is named after Thunor, the Old English god of thunder, whom the Norse called Thor. The front part is Thurs, with ur in the middle. 8 letters.
  • Tuesday Named after Tiw, a one-handed god of the Old English; the Norse called him Týr. The front part is Tues, with ue after the T. 7 letters.
  • Wednesday Woden's day, from Old English Wōdnesdæg. Most speakers leave out the first d when they say it, so spell it in three parts: Wed, nes, day. The longest day name, 9 letters.

Months of the year 12

  • April 30 days, the year's first month to have 30. It lands in a dip between two knuckles.
  • August 31 days. The Romans called it Sextilis until it was renamed for Augustus. It starts with Au, as autumn does.
  • December 31 days. From Latin decem, ten. The twelfth and last month of the year.
  • February 28 days, and 29 in a leap year, so it is the only month shorter than 30 days. The r comes straight after the b: Feb, ru, ary.
  • January 31 days. The year's opening month. Spell it Jan, u, ary. On the knuckle count it lands on the first knuckle.
  • July 31 days. The Romans called it Quintilis until it was renamed for Julius Caesar. On the knuckle count July and August both land on a knuckle.
  • June 30 days. June and July differ from the third letter on: n, e against l, y.
  • March 31 days. It was the first month of the oldest Roman calendar, which is why September to December count from it.
  • May 31 days. The shortest month name, 3 letters: a capital, a small a and a y whose tail hangs under the base line.
  • November 30 days, the last month of the year to have 30. From Latin novem, nine.
  • October 31 days. From Latin octo, eight, the same start as octagon, a shape with 8 sides.
  • September 30 days. From Latin septem, seven: it was the seventh month when the Roman year began in March, and it kept the name as the ninth. The longest month name, 9 letters.

Time words 10

  • afternoon After and noon joined: the part of the day after 12 o'clock. With yesterday, the longest word on this list: 9 letters.
  • evening The end of the day, before night. Spell it eve, ning: the second e is easy to leave out.
  • month One of the 12 parts of a year, 28 to 31 days long. It starts like Monday, M, o, n, and ends in th.
  • morning The part of the day before noon. It ends in ing, and the g has a tail under the base line.
  • night The dark part of the day. It ends in ight, like light and right.
  • today This day: to and day written as one word. Trace it before the sentence Today is Monday.
  • tomorrow The day after today. One m and two r's. The CDC's milestone list for age 5 includes using words about time, like yesterday, tomorrow, morning or night.
  • week 7 days. A double e in the middle, as in see.
  • year 12 months, which is 365 days, or 366 in a leap year.
  • yesterday The day before today. It has the word day at the end, like every day name. 9 letters.

The 4 seasons 4

  • fall The North American name for autumn, the season between summer and winter. Four letters, three of them tall.
  • spring The season between winter and summer. It starts with three consonants in a row: s, p, r.
  • summer The season between spring and fall. Double m in the middle. Summer in the Northern Hemisphere means winter in the Southern.
  • winter The season between fall and spring. Same ending as summer, er.

Short forms, Mon to Sun 7

  • Fri The first 3 letters of Friday, with the capital kept. Friday with day taken off.
  • Mon The first 3 letters of Monday, with the capital kept. Monday with day taken off. Fri and Sun are made the same way.
  • Sat The first 3 letters of Saturday, with the capital kept. On its own it is also a word: the cat sat.
  • Sun The first 3 letters of Sunday, with the capital kept. On its own it names the star the day is called after.
  • Thu The first 3 letters of Thursday, with the capital kept. It stops before the r of Thurs.
  • Tue The first 3 letters of Tuesday, with the capital kept. Without the s of Tues it is as short as the other six.
  • Wed The first 3 letters of Wednesday, with the capital kept. The d that most speakers leave out of Wednesday is the last letter here.

How this list was compiled: Lists chosen and notes written for this site. Checked on 2026-09-19: the Old English day names, the gods behind Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, and Saturday as the one day that kept a Roman name at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Names_of_the_days_of_the_week and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wednesday; Monday as day 1 in ISO 8601, Sunday first in the United States, Canada and Japan, and the week as seven days at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Week; Monday to Friday as the workweek and Saturday and Sunday as the weekend in most of the world at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Workweek_and_weekend; the way Wednesday is said at https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wednesday; the lengths of the months and the leap year of 366 days at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregorian_calendar; Quintilis and Sextilis, the Latin numbers in September to December and the knuckle count at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Month; March as the first month of the oldest Roman calendar at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September; capitals on days and months in English at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitalization; fall as the North American name for autumn at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autumn; the four seasons and the opposite seasons of the two hemispheres at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Season; the milestone about words for time at https://www.cdc.gov/act-early/milestones/5-years.html (page dated May 15, 2026). Letter counts and copies to a row were counted with the tool on the same day. Origins of January to June are left out because they were not checked. Licence: own work

How it works

These days of the week tracing worksheets open on Monday to Sunday in dotted 14 mm print, on 2 pages. Each day has a row to trace and an empty row to write it alone. Press Print worksheet; Word list also has the 12 months.

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Where the week breaks

On Letter, page 1 holds Monday to Thursday and page 2 Friday to Sunday. Six names print twice across a row. Wednesday, the longest at 9 letters, prints once. To fit all 7 days on 1 page, open More options and clear Add an empty row to write without help.

The same 7 days, mixed

Set What goes on the sheet to Unscramble and each day prints as loose small letters under a word box. Missing letters drops the hard part: the d and n of Wednesday, the u and r of Saturday. Sort by list mixes 5 days, 5 months and 5 time words above 3 headings. Each fills 1 page.

  • Under More options, set What to practice to Words or sentences. The page opens on Today is Monday.
  • Type Today is alone and only those 2 words are dotted. The child writes the day after them.
  • The 12 months take 3 pages, or 2 without the empty row. Months with 30 days is a list too.

Questions and answers

Our calendar starts on Sunday. Can the sheet?

Yes. The list runs Monday to Sunday, the order of the ISO 8601 standard. Calendars in the United States, Canada and Japan put Sunday first. Type the 7 days in your order in Your words, one per line. They print in the order typed.

How do you spell Wednesday?

W-e-d-n-e-s-d-a-y, 9 letters. The usual way to say it skips the first d, so that d is easy to leave out. The name is Old English for Woden's day. Pick Missing letters and the sheet leaves out the d and n to fill in.

Why do the days start with a capital?

In English the names of days and months take a capital anywhere in a sentence; many other languages write them small. So the days, the months and Mon to Sun have a capital here. The time words and the 4 seasons do not.

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