Days of the week and months tracing worksheets

The seven days of the week and the twelve months of the year, one a page, to print and trace. Each page has the word large with numbered start dots and arrows on every letter, then rows of it in dots to trace on four-line guides, then lines to write it alone. Each word starts with its capital letter, the way it is written in a sentence.

8.5" × 11", no sign-up. The days come first, Sunday to Saturday, then the months, January to December. These pages have no pictures to colour: a day or a month isn't a thing a child can see.

Which letters the words practise

Between them, the 19 words use 19 of the 26 lowercase letters. The seven they leave out are f, j, k, q, w, x and z. Friday, February, January, June, July and Wednesday have f, j and w only as capitals. To practise every letter, add fish, jacket, key, quilt, watch, box and zeppelin to the words in the book maker: each has a picture, and each brings in one of the missing letters.

The capitals are S, M, T, W, F, J, A, O, N and D: ten of the 26. Sunday, Saturday and September share S; Monday, March and May share M; Tuesday and Thursday share T; Friday and February share F; January, June and July share J; April and August share A.

Tall letters and tails

On the four-line guides, every capital reaches the headline, and only Q drops below the baseline, so each of these words reaches up at least once. Of the lowercase letters, seven rise to the headline: b, d, f, h, k, l and t. Five drop below the baseline: g, j, p, q and y. None of these words stays between the baseline and the midline all the way. All 19 reach up to the headline: Sunday (S and d), Monday (M and d), Tuesday (T and d), Wednesday (W and d), Thursday (T, h and d), Friday (F and d), Saturday (S, t and d), January (J), February (F and b), March (M and h), April (A and l), May (M), June (J), July (J and l), August (A and t), September (S, t and b), October (O, t and b), November (N and b) and December (D and b). Fourteen drop below the baseline: Sunday (y), Monday (y), Tuesday (y), Wednesday (y), Thursday (y), Friday (y), Saturday (y), January (y), February (y), April (p), May (y), July (y), August (g) and September (p). Every day of the week ends in a y.

The words by length and strokes

A stroke is one movement of the pencil, from putting it down to lifting it, and each letter on the page shows its strokes with numbered start dots. These words run from 5 to 11 strokes, 159 in all. May is the shortest word, at three letters. May and June take the fewest strokes, 5 each; February takes the most, 11.

Ordered by strokes instead, fewest first, the words go May, June, March, July, Sunday, Monday, April, October, Tuesday, January, August, November, December, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, September and February. Words with the same count keep their order above. One of the biggest changes is Wednesday: it has nine letters but takes 10 strokes, as y takes two, so it moves from fourth to fourteenth. To make the book in that order, open Trace Press with the words by strokes.

Your own words

To trace a child's name or a different list, type the words into the free tracing worksheet generator and print one page. For words with pictures to colour, there are word tracing worksheets with pictures, animal, food and transportation tracing worksheets; for seasonal words, there are Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas tracing worksheets.

Selling a days and months tracing book on KDP

Trace Press makes the whole book: A to Z, then these words a page each, with a matching full-wrap cover, in any of six KDP trim sizes. The button below opens it with the 19 words already typed in, for a 45-page book. Change the words, add numbers 0 to 9 or a “This book belongs to” page, and download. For the cover's size at that page count, see tracing book cover size.

Free books have a small footer line and PREVIEW on the cover; $19 once removes both, for every book you make after.