Weekend Language Activity
Making a Family Calendar
Materials
Vocabulary/Target Words
Language Concepts
Directions
Here’s a song to help your child learn the months of the year.
Here’s a song to help review the days of the week.
Materials
- Calendar for the month of January (Don’t have a calendar, click here)
- Crayons
- Stickers (optional)
Vocabulary/Target Words
- Nouns: calendar, birthday, day, week, month, year
- Verbs: to be (is), look, find, think
- Adjectives: soon, excited, nervous, cold
Language Concepts
- Yesterday/today/tomorrow
- ‘When’ questions
- Morning/afternoon/night
- Days of the week
- Prediction (‘What will…’)
Directions
- Print out a calendar for the month of January and talk about the new year
- Predict what the weather will be like in January
- What will the temperature be outside?
- What clothes will you wear?
- What games could you play?
- Talk about the days of the week (when your child goes to school, playgroup, grandma’s, etc.)
- Practice asking and answering questions relating to the days of the week:
- What day is today?
- What will tomorrow be?
- What day was yesterday?
- What will we do today/tomorrow, etc.?
- Mark any important events, birthdays, or activities on the calendar and talk about them
- Use stickers, markers, etc. to mark the dates
- Ask ‘when’ questions about events on your calendar
- Explore the letters in the word ‘January’ and think about other words with the same sounds
Here’s a song to help your child learn the months of the year.
Here’s a song to help review the days of the week.
