Months and Seasons of the Year: Free KS1 Worksheet

What children practise on this worksheet

This sheet brings together two everyday ideas that often get muddled: months and seasons. Children write the twelve months in the correct order, then match each season to the months it usually covers in the United Kingdom. The colour-in year wheel reinforces the idea that a year is a repeating cycle that returns to the start, rather than a straight line with an end. Working through both the writing and the colouring helps children see how the calendar is organised into bigger groups, which supports later work on dates, timetables and reading a calendar.

How months and seasons fit together in the UK

In the UK we usually group the seasons like this: spring (March, April, May), summer (June, July, August), autumn (September, October, November) and winter (December, January, February). This is the common meteorological grouping used in many schools and weather reports. You may also meet the astronomical seasons, which begin on the solstices and equinoxes around the 20th or 21st of those months, so a date such as 21 December marks the start of astronomical winter. For children aged 6 to 7, the three-months-per-season grouping is the clearest starting point, and it is worth mentioning that not every country has four seasons in the same way.

Ways to use it at home or in class

Before children write, you might say the months aloud together or sing a familiar months song to anchor the order. Encourage them to point to each quarter of the wheel and name the season before colouring it. A helpful colour key is spring green, summer yellow, autumn orange or brown, and winter blue, but any sensible choice is fine. To extend the activity, ask children to circle the month of their own birthday, work out which season it falls in, or talk about what the weather and daylight are like in each season where they live.

Common mix-ups to watch for

Two errors are very common at this age. First, children often place the months in the wrong order around the turn of the year, forgetting that December is followed by January. Second, they may assume winter is only December, when in the UK grouping it also includes January and February. Gently checking these two points will catch most mistakes. It also helps to remind children that the year is a loop: after December the cycle starts again, which is exactly what the round year wheel is designed to show.

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