Days of the week chart
The days of the week, in order, are Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday. This chart prints them in large type with each day's short form, and marks Saturday and Sunday as the weekend.
Free printable PDF, preschool to 1st grade.
One page, black and white, prints the same every time.
What is on the sheet
The table below is the sheet as it prints with these options: Sunday.
| Day | Short form | Weekday or weekend |
|---|---|---|
| Sunday | Sun | Weekend |
| Monday | Mon | Weekday |
| Tuesday | Tue | Weekday |
| Wednesday | Wed | Weekday |
| Thursday | Thu | Weekday |
| Friday | Fri | Weekday |
| Saturday | Sat | Weekend |
Sunday or Monday first
Calendars in the United States and Canada start the week on Sunday, and most classroom charts there do the same. Calendars in the UK, most of Europe and many other countries start on Monday, which is also the international standard (ISO 8601). Pick the one that matches the calendar on your wall. The order of the days does not change, only where the list begins.
Learning the days
Young children learn the days as a sequence long before they can read them. Say them in order each morning, point to today, and ask which day comes next and which day was yesterday. Pre-K and kindergarten classes do this at circle time with the calendar.
By 1st grade children write the days, and the capital letter is part of the lesson: days of the week are names, so each one starts with a capital wherever it falls in a sentence. Wednesday is the spelling to watch, since most people do not say its first d.
Common questions
- How many days are in a week?
- Seven: five weekdays, Monday to Friday, and two weekend days, Saturday and Sunday.
- What are the short forms of the days?
- Sun, Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri and Sat. Some calendars write Tues and Thurs instead; both are correct.
- Why do the days of the week start with a capital letter?
- They are proper nouns, the names of particular days, and English capitalizes names. The months take a capital too; the seasons do not.