Virginia SOL K.MG.3.c
The Standard
Determine the day before and after a given day (e.g., yesterday, today, tomorrow).
Virginia Standards of Learning for Mathematics · The student will describe the units of time represented in a calendar.
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students put the days of the week in order. Given one day, they identify the weekday immediately before it and immediately after it.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student answers accurately for any weekday, including Sunday and Saturday. They use yesterday, today, and tomorrow correctly when explaining the sequence.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may recite the weekdays but struggle to begin from a named day. They may treat Monday and Friday as endpoints instead of including weekends.
How to Assess It
- Point to Thursday on a calendar strip and ask, “What day was yesterday, and what day will tomorrow be?”
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs seven weekday cards to order, then place a clothespin on one card and name its two neighbors.
Ask students to answer and explain: “If today is Wednesday, what day was yesterday and what day will tomorrow be?”
Play Weekday Hop: students stand on floor cards, hear a starting day, then hop to the day before or after.
At morning meeting, mark today on the class calendar and have a helper announce yesterday’s and tomorrow’s weekdays.
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