
Discuss with your children all the different times that they can play this game with. Play this game often and use different intervals of time to bring greater understanding. (fingers reaching for the sky) And so on until you have wrung the bell seven times. (one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten) ring the bell. (finger raises up and down, all going to plan) Keep counting, consecutively for seven turns. Ready, steady, go.”Ĭount to yourself, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten) ring the bell. When my turn is over you will have a turn to ring the bell.“Now, sit with your back to me. You raise your finger quickly up and down when you think 10 seconds has passed each time. I will ring the bell seven different times while ten seconds passes each time. Show your children the second hand as you do a practice run together of counting ten seconds and raising your finger and, ring the bell. You raise your hand when you think 10 seconds has passed.” Tell your children you are going to play a game called the Finger Raise.

Show your children the clock and discuss the hour hand which is the short hand, the minute hand, the long hand and the second hand, the skinny, red hand. “In five minutes, we will be meeting at our desk to work on your math.” Sing Out Loud! Click here to open the nursery rhyme “Hickory, Dickory Dock!” “We are going to sing Hickory, Dickory, Dock .” There are three activities below for you to work through with your children. The lessons are simple and are interrelated and support one another to increase the development of your children’s mathematical understanding of time in the concrete sense as well as the abstract.

The emphasizes will be placed on exposure to the concepts of time and duration in a natural way. It explores how long particular activities take and compares the duration of two activities in a variety of ways. This Telling Time lesson, together with its activities and worksheets will help your children to grasp the concept.
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Becoming aware of the passing of time and the duration of an activity and how it applies to your children’s real-life situations is the beginning of understanding how to tell time.
