Timing is difficult, especially for children. How to teach a child to tell the time by the clock?
Determine if your child is ready to learn
- he must understand the meaning of the time of day;
- he can count to 100;
- he must visually distinguish between numbers and understand their meaning;
- he can write numbers.
Tell your child all about timing
This knowledge seems elementary, but it is necessary to tell the child. Be sure to say that time cannot go back, show the movement of the hands on the dial.
Do not forget to mention time components: hours, minutes and seconds. Then move on to the day. Finally, explain that all adults live by time. They are guided when they need to get up, have breakfast, go to work.
Show the dial and explain the meaning of the hands
Invite your baby to count minute divisions. There are 60 of them in one hour: if the hand moves one division, it means that one minute has passed.
Explain that the arrows vary in length: one is long and the other is short. The long one is responsible for minutes, and the short one is for hours.
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Dedicate time to study minutes and hours in a day
By moving the hands on a toy or real watch face, show how one hour of the day and beyond with all subsequent numbers looks like.
To make it easier for him, draw his attention to where the hour hand is - between which divisions and where it moves. Ask leading questions.
Then gradually move on to the study of a quarter of an hour (or 15 minutes). This is a very important point, so you should never skip it.
Present your kid with a watch
It turns out that children who, at the age of five to eight, were presented with a wristwatch, almost immediately learned how to determine the time from them.
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