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What age do they learn days of the week?

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Claire2009 · 19/05/2009 23:03

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Twims · 19/05/2009 23:06

About 3 /3.5

gigglewitch · 19/05/2009 23:13

DD knows them at 3yo to say & relate what she does on each day, what order they come in etc.
DS2 knows and can read days and months etc 5.6yo

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Claire2009 · 19/05/2009 23:15

Wow, I haven't even thought of teaching Dd just yet until my friend said about her 3.4yo "She doesn't know the days of the week yet".

My dd is 3.3yo, she does colours, shapes, numbers to around 20 (depending on mood!) & abc's so it looks like days of the week next

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WriggleJiggle · 19/05/2009 23:16

dd just turned 3, knows they exist, but doesn't know the order, or what happens on each day. Expecting it to happen within the next 6 months though.

gigglewitch · 19/05/2009 23:27

they all do stuff at different rates, remember that

my eldest ds was slightly later with learning his days of the week but knew all kinds of stuff that ds2 and dd who knew days etc earlier, didn't. Developing different skills at different rates is fine. Another one - my boys just did not do writing early, ds2 read at just 4 but no sign of bothering with writing anything. DD at 3 wants to write her own name and all kinds of stylised fancy "letters" (unfortunately not all of them English lol, several appear to be nearer Greek) despite me having in many ways much less time to do concentrated stuff with her.

frustratedmom · 20/05/2009 00:15

sorry sight hijack - is learning days of week associated with comprehension of time passage?

skramble · 20/05/2009 00:25

My DS is 12 and still never knows what day of the week it is, he is getting better as he usually figures out what days are gym days are. But gets confused at the weekend, I think he just doesn't want to go back to school.

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Claire2009 · 20/05/2009 00:28

Frustratedmom - I haven't got a clue but I'd assume so, like saying "Its Monday today but we're going out on Wednesday"....

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frustratedmom · 20/05/2009 00:34

Ah might be where we have a problem - history is a bit of a muddle - everything happened yesterday. Future ok though and interestingly enough getting concept of months and weeks just not days. maybe it will click when he starts school in sept.

gigglewitch · 20/05/2009 00:53

don't worry FM. Despite knowing the names of the days and what she does when, DD tells you everything is tomorrow/yesterday, mostly when it was last week

DS2 is slightly better, he counts everything in "sleeps" [as they do!] and can cope with a fortnight worth. More than that and you're back on to the "last week on saturday" for everything thing. I reckon they only truly 'get' it around six yo.

frustratedmom · 20/05/2009 01:15

Am not worried but have been asked several times by play school leader how we manage to fit eso much into one day

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