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Time - Telling the time is an important life skill. This pack starts with concepts about night and day, familiar events and the cycle of a day. It leads into tasks for an hour, half hour and time for five minutes.

Tasks include -

• Connect days of the week to familiar events.
• Introduction to time. Copy one for each child. Record what you do in the day and at night. Use pastels on the black one for night.
• Differentiate between am and pm. Brainstorm as a grade what we do in the am and the pm, and then children record.
• My Day in a cycle. Copy onto A3. This is to help establish that our day is a cycle and that each day starts with getting up and ends with going to bed.
• This is my week. Copy onto A4 and use to consolidate what we do in a week.
• My Weekly Journal. Photocopy and use one page for a week. You may wish to continue for longer than a week. Complete an entry for each day. On Monday, complete the weekend.
• Cards to sequence the days of the week – copy onto coloured paper or card and laminate.
• Describe duration using months, weeks, days and hours.
• Sequencing cards for months of the year. Copy onto coloured paper or card and laminate. Use season tags (colour copy and laminate) to order the seasons and assign the correct months of the year.
• Roll and record days of the week. Copy one for each child.
• Roll and record months of the year. Copy one for each child.
• Sequence days of the week and months of the year. Copy and students cut and sequence. Collect for assessment.
• Use subject cards – colour copy and laminat,e and outline what you do in a day. Attach to your board as an agenda for the day.

Calendar – print on colour and add information as a grade or in small groups.

Use a calendar to identify dates, days and number of days in a month. Copy on A3 in colour. Use these calendars to record important dates for your grade. In small group,s add the days across the top and then the dates. Use in a focus math group to ensure that the process is correct.

Tell time to the hour, half hour and five minutes. Make a clock. Copy onto card and cut the hands out. Use a split pin to attach the hands so that they move. In pairs make times and say the time on the clock. Copy the sheet, one for each student and draw a clock Write down what we use a clock for and what you know about telling time.

Match analogue clocks to time and digital time. Copy onto colored paper or card and laminate, 4 sets

Jigsaws – copy onto colored paper or card and laminate. Match digital time to an analogue clock.

Tell time using Analogue and Digital time and use am and pm.

Record how many minutes it would take to do certain tasks.

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