Months of the Year (Tracing and Writing)

What is it

Worksheets that teach children the basic strokes of the alphabets in the months of the year, and encourage tracing and writing within boxes and on lines.

Teaching Objectives

• Practice on reading the different months of the year, and recap their corresponding numbers and sequence.

• Develop sustained attention and effort to complete tracing & writing worksheets.

• Develop better pencil control by tracing and writing within the given space.

• Learn how to trace and write different alphabets in the months of the year with the correct strokes through number and dot prompts.

• Gauge letter sizing and alignment through different layouts (bubbled alphabets, boxes, lines).

• Cultivate neater and cleaner handwriting for school readiness.

How to use

• Focus on a specific month of the year, and slowly build up from learning the strokes, tracing, and writing within boxes and lines to increase their familiarity.

• Have your child practice tracing first with the correct strokes before writing.

  • Get your child to trace to the number prompts with their pointer finger to form the correct strokes inside the alphabet before tracing with writing materials.

• Move on to worksheets with box and line prompts to practise neater handwriting.

  • Test your child if they remember the strokes of the alphabets when focusing on a specific month.

  • Use bubbled alphabets with numbers as visual prompts or to revise the strokes if more practice is needed.

Teaching tips

• If your child is just starting to learn how to write, thicken the lines and boxes to help your child develop awareness of staying within the guidelines.

• Guide your child to trace the different letters along with you using his index finger before using a pencil.

• To input more practice, put the paper in a sheet protector and have your child trace & erase with the correct strokes using a marker & duster.

• Use a jumbo pencil or pencil grips to develop better pencil control.

• Making writing more fun by using painting tools, colored pencils or crayons, a magic invisible ink pen, or writing in sand.

  • Pair it with the “Months of the year” wheel and let your child choose which day they want to start tracing and writing.

Here are some videos:

• Tracing and Writing

  • How to Write Letters for Children - Teaching Writing ABC for Preschool - Alphabet for Kids

  • Write the letter A | Alphabet Writing lesson for children | The Singing Walrus

  • Writing Numbers | Number Songs | PINKFONG Songs for Children

• Songs

  • 12 Months of the Year - THE KIBOOMRS Preschool Songs for Circle Time - Learning Song

  • Months of the Year Song | Learn the 12 Months | Kindergarten, Preschool & ESL | Fun Kids English

  • THE MONTHS OF A YEAR | LARVA KIDS | NURSERY RHYME | KIDS SONGS | 2 min | LEARNING SONGS

  • Ordinal Numbers | Jack Hartmann Ordinal Numbers Song

• Reading

  • Months of the Year Syllable Song | Phonological Awareness | Jack Hartmann

Embed more learning opportunities

• Receptive language – “point to March”, “where is letter M” 

• Expressive language – point to one of the months on the poster, and ask the child, “What month is this?”, ask the child “This month is November. What comes after November?”

• Spelling – cover the words and get the child to recall and spell the months of the year independently!

• Numeracy – expose your child to ordinal numbers as you go through the sequence for the months of the year, i.e. “January is the first month of the year.”, “June is the sixth month of the year.”

• Use the spinning wheel to reinforce the sequence of the months of the year, and use it in your daily life. 

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