Days of the week games and activities
for ESL kids lessons

Games and activities for teaching “Days of the week” to ESL kids

Days of the week march

You’ll need a fairly long classroom with space for everyone to march up and down (or space outside).

The teacher stands at one end of the room against the left wall. Line the students up along side the teacher and teacher says, “Go!”. As you all march together, teacher starts calling out the days in order (“Monday”, “Tuesday”, etc.). Students repeat each day (Teacher: “Monday”, Students: “Monday”).

March along at a slow pace, but smartly (backs straight, arms swinging). At certain points teacher suddenly shouts, “Stop!”. Everyone must stop and be EXACTLY in line with the teacher . If someone is out of line, order them back in line and then continue marching where you left off. Turn around each time you reach the end of the room and continue the march.

Once finished start again, but this time walk briskly. You can do it the final time running! This is even more fun when there are tables, etc, in the room that the need to climb over/under.

After a few lessons you shouldn’t have to chorus the words – just get the students to chant together as they march.

Days of the week lesson plan

We also have a FREE lesson plan on days of the week which includes games and activities as well as other lesson materials.

Click to download our Days of the week lesson plan.

Days of the week song

We have a song available for download focusing on days of the week called “Days of the week song“.