Los Días y los Meses (The Days and the Months): Calendar Vocabulary

Learning Objectives Say the seven days of the week in Spanish. Recognize the names of the 12 months in Spanish. Answer the question '¿Qué día es hoy?' (What day is it today?). Identify their birthday month in Spanish. Sing a simple song about the days of the week. Use the words 'hoy' (today), 'ayer' (yesterday), and 'mañana' (tomorrow). Do you know what day it is today? 🗓️ Let's learn to say it in Spanish! We will learn the Spanish words for days and months. This helps us talk about fun things. Like birthdays and holidays! 🎂 Real-World Applications Telling someone when your birthday is. Knowing what day you go to the park 🌳. Talking about holidays like Navidad (Christmas) 🎄. Understanding the classroom calendar.

TermDefinitionExample El Día (The Day)One single day, like Monday. ☀️Hoy es un día bonito. (Today is a pretty day.) La Semana (The Week)Seven days all together. 🌈Hay siete días en la semana. (There are seven days in the week.) El Mes (The Month)A big group of days, like January. 🗓️Mi cumpleaños es en el mes de mayo. (My birthday is in the month of May.) Hoy (Today)The day that is happening right now. 👇Hoy es lunes. (Today is Monday.) Mañana (Tomorrow)The day that comes after today. 👉Mañana jugamos. (Tomorrow we play.) Ayer (Yesterday)The day that was before today. 👈Ayer comí una manzana. (Yesterday I ate an apple.)

Days and Months Use Small Letters lunes, martes, miércoles... enero, febrero... In Spanish, we don't use a big capital letter. We use a small letter to start the word. Days are Boys (Masculine) el lunes, el martes, el miércoles... We say 'el' before the day. It means 'the'. Think of 'el' like a little boy robot. 🤖 The Week Starts on Monday lunes, martes, miércoles, jueves, viernes, sábado, domingo In many Spanish-speaking places, the calendar week starts with lunes (Monday)!