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8Free Days of the Week Worksheets for Kindergarten

Eight free worksheets that take a Kindergartner from tracing the words to truly understanding how the week moves, in the order I'd actually teach them.

In this roundup

The full list

  1. Days of the Week: Say, Trace, Write
  2. Let's Write the Days of the Week
  3. Days of the Week Tracing
  4. Days of the Week Fill-in-the-Blank
  5. The Seven Days of the Week
  6. Days of the Week: What Comes After?
  7. Days of the Week: Tomorrow and Yesterday
  8. Which Day Comes Next?

Learning the days of the week is really three skills wearing one costume: reading and writing seven brand-new words, putting them in a fixed order, and then moving around inside that order (today, tomorrow, yesterday). Jump straight to “what comes after Tuesday” and you lose the kids who cannot yet read “Tuesday.”

The eight free worksheets below climb that ladder in order: trace the words, spell them, sequence them, then reason forward and back. Every one is a printable PDF with no account and no watermark. Drop in wherever your class already is.

01

Days of the Week: Say, Trace, Write

Handwriting · 20 minutes · Kindergarten
Days of the Week: Say, Trace, Write worksheet preview

Start here. This is the one sheet that meets every child where they are: a three-column table where they say each day out loud, trace it, then write it on their own. The scaffold is built in, so the same page works for a child still learning the words and one ready to write them solo.

I reach for it first because it quietly does the differentiation for me. Spread it across a week, a day or two at a time, or hand it to a confident class all at once.

Why it works Say, trace, write moves a child from recognition to recall in one continuous step, with no gap to fall through.
02

Let's Write the Days of the Week

Tracing · 15 minutes · Kindergarten
Let's Write the Days of the Week worksheet preview

Pure handwriting practice: seven guided lines, one per day, with large dashed letters to trace inside friendly rules. It's the gentlest on-ramp for little hands still building pencil control.

Best for First exposure to the words · Fine-motor practice · Pairing with a morning calendar routine.
03

Days of the Week Tracing

Tracing · 15 minutes · Kindergarten
Days of the Week Tracing worksheet preview

Same tracing focus, with a twist that matters in a lot of classrooms: it runs Monday first. Each row shows the day in bold on the left to read, then a trace line on the right, so recognition and handwriting happen together.

Use it when Your week starts on Monday, or you want children reading the word before they trace it.
04

Days of the Week Fill-in-the-Blank

Spelling · 10 minutes · Kindergarten
Days of the Week Fill-in-the-Blank worksheet preview

Once the words look familiar, this nudges children from recognizing them to spelling them. Each day appears with missing letters next to a friendly picture cue, and kids fill in the blanks to finish the word.

Pro tip Read the finished word aloud together after each line. It locks the letter-sound link while the spelling is fresh.
05

The Seven Days of the Week

Sequencing · 15 minutes · Kindergarten
The Seven Days of the Week worksheet preview

Now the order. The seven days sit scrambled on the left, numbered boxes 1 to 7 on the right, and children write each day in its place. A growing-plant illustration down the side reinforces that the week moves in sequence.

Best for Checking whether the week's order has really stuck · An end-of-unit review.
06

Days of the Week: What Comes After?

Sequencing · 10 minutes · Kindergarten
Days of the Week: What Comes After? worksheet preview

A focused follow-up to ordering: each box gives three days in a row and asks for the one that comes next. A word bank up top keeps it about thinking forward, not recall under pressure.

Use it as A quick center task or exit ticket once children can put the week in order.
07

Days of the Week: Tomorrow and Yesterday

Comprehension · 15 minutes · Kindergarten
Days of the Week: Tomorrow and Yesterday worksheet preview

The trickiest leap: not just naming the days but moving around in them. Each colorful row says 'Today is...' and asks what comes tomorrow and what was yesterday, with a reference strip of the week to count along.

Why it works The picture cues and the week strip give just enough support for children to reason forward and back instead of guessing.
08

Which Day Comes Next?

Comprehension · 15 minutes · Kindergarten
Which Day Comes Next? worksheet preview

The same tomorrow-and-yesterday thinking, stripped to clean black and white for an independent check. Five panels, each naming a day and asking for the one before and after. Ink-friendly and quick to print for a whole class.

Use it as A no-frills formative assessment, homework, or morning work once the concept is in place.

One more thing.

If your kids finish a unit and you're not sure what to do next, my honest advice: don't move on yet. Spend a week mixing these in as warm-ups. Fluency isn't a unit, it's a habit, and the sheet that builds it is usually the one they ask to do again.

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