Lesson Three – Days of the Week

This literacy teaching pack for the Foundation Stage gets the children to investigate and record how to sort the seven days of the week into the correct sequence and match related events and experiences.

The class can identify and show the correct days of the week that come before some other days to match the selected things that can happen in school or at home.

Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to investigate and record how to sort the seven days of the week into the correct sequence and match related events and experiences

Activities in this teaching pack include display posters to identify and record the correct sequence for the seven days of the week, a worksheet to list the correct days that come before and after other selected days of the week and a set of cards to match the correct sequence of the days of the week.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to sort the days of the week into the correct sequence and match related events and experiences.

This lesson is part of a numeracy scheme of work to get the children to select and use special vocabulary words to describe different periods of time including days of the week and months of the year to match family events and experiences. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and interactive presentations to introduce concepts and key skills.

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