Primary 2 spelling words: days, months and family

Primary 2 · 28 words · Updated 2026-09-16

1. Monday
2. Tuesday
3. Wednesday
4. Thursday
5. Friday
6. Saturday
7. Sunday
8. January
9. February
10. March
11. April
12. May
13. June
14. July
15. August
16. September
17. October
18. November
19. December
20. mother
21. father
22. sister
23. brother
24. grandmother
25. grandfather
26. aunt
27. uncle
28. cousin

How to practise these words

These words all begin with a capital letter except the family ones, and a child who writes "monday" has made a real mistake that a spelling test will mark. Practise the capital and the spelling in the same breath rather than fixing them on separate evenings. The days and months have their own traps: "Wednesday" hides a letter nobody says, "February" hides another, and both are worth learning as their own small group away from the rest. Use them where they already belong, by asking your child to head the day's homework with the full date. The family words are easier, so use them to end a session on something your child gets right.

Where these words come from

Days, months and close family words appear in every primary curriculum and in the public-domain frequency lists alike, because a child cannot write a date, a letter or a piece of news without them. Nothing here comes from a particular school's list.