How Many Days Later? Counting Between Dates on a Calendar

One month fills the top of this 2nd grade calendar worksheet, December 2025 printed as a proper grid with the days of the week across a teal header and every date in its own cell. Three small toy stickers sit on three separate days. Underneath are four questions in cream boxes with dashed answer spaces: on which date is the first sticker, how many days after that one the next sticker falls, what the date is one week after the 10th, and what day of the week the 18th is. Two of the four are about distance rather than position.

Naming the day a date falls on is a lookup; working out how many days lie between two dates is arithmetic on a grid, and that is the question this page is built around. A child can count cells one at a time and be right, and many will, but the calendar rewards a shortcut as soon as they notice it, because a date directly below another is exactly seven days later. Watching which method a child uses on the span question tells you whether the wrap-around layout has been understood or is still being treated as a list. The one-week-later question is the same insight in miniature: drop straight down a column and you have added seven.

Print the PDF free and let a finger travel the route on the grid before the pencil answers, especially where the span crosses from one row into the next. A real wall calendar beside the sheet is worth having, so the same two questions can be asked of the month everyone is actually in. Read the calendar: a first look is the four-question page without a span question, and a busy month uses a six-row layout where the counting has further to travel.