telling time to young children

Young children find learning to tell the time very difficult. Before they can understand, they must acquire a sense of event sequence.

Here is an activity that will surely be of help.

This activity is called ---- MY DAY

What you need ---- * A long strip of paper
* felt pens or coloured pencils

What to do ----

Discuss with your children the sorts of things they do in a normal day. Then give them a strip of paper each and some coloured pens or pencils.

Ask them to draw a sun at one end of the paper and the moon and the stars at the other, for the beginning and end of the day. Next, they draw in their day --- when they get up, have breakfast, get dressed, go to pre-school/summer class, things they do there, come home, play outside, have their bath, have dinner, play or watch TV, brush their teeth, have stories, go to bed.

Hang their "my day" picture in their bedroom and talk about it together.

You can also hang a calendar in their room. If they are looking forward to a particular event, perhaps a birthday party or a family vacation/travel, you can cross off the days as they pass.

Enjoy being a mum con teacher!