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In ancient times, time was determined using a sundial; their design was very simple, but at the same time quite reliable. Their significant drawback is the inability to use them in cloudy weather and at night. Currently, this type of watch is not at all popular, because now there are mechanical and electronic watches, they are convenient, compact, mobile, some of them are resistant to damage.
Download and print clock coloring pages for your child, and at the same time share educational information with him. If your little one has a fairly clear idea about hourglasses, electronic watches, and walking watches, then the mysterious phrase “smart watch” probably torments his imagination. Translated from English, “smart” means smart. Smart watches can do a lot, but to work they need a connection with a smartphone. They serve as a second display - they show notifications about incoming calls, messages, and you can also send a short reply from them. In the meantime, your child is still far from playing with modern gadgets, download and print clock coloring pages for him, this is a great opportunity to practice his time telling skills in a fun and relaxed way!
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We'll make our own clocks and learn to tell time! We will learn interesting games over time, and we will also be able to download useful materials! The ability to freely navigate time makes a child more independent and responsible, so it is better to teach him to tell time by the dial of a clock already in preschool age.
Although electronic watches greatly simplify this task, it is the dial that makes time space more visual.
Watch the educational video “how to learn to tell time”:
At the same time, it is very important to constantly remember that when we teach time by the clock, for children the concepts of “minute”, “second” and “hour” are very abstract, since they cannot compare them with real time intervals. This point will need to be given special attention.
How to make a watch with your child with your own hands?
Simple enough. For this you will need:
- compass (or finished circle);
- thick cardboard;
- marker;
- simple pencil;
- ruler;
- scissors;
- pushpin with a head.
We draw a circle on the cardboard and place numbers indicating the hours along its edge. Using a ruler, measure the distance from the center of the circle to the numbers, and make a narrower minute hand of that length. And we make the sentry wider and shorter. We fix the arrows in the center using a pushpin. Ready!
You can use a more complex ready-made template to make it - for example, print a clock with moving hands on thick printer paper and stick it on a cardboard base.
- How to learn to tell time?
Using, we study clocks with a child according to a simple scheme:
- We explain that the small hand shows the hour, and the long and narrow hand shows the minute. This explanation looks more logical if you pay attention to the fact that we have very few hours (that’s why the hand is small), but they last a long time (that’s why the hand is so wide). And there are a lot of minutes (that’s why the hand is longer), but they pass quickly (that’s why it’s so narrow). We mix the hands and ask the child to show: which hand shows the hours and which shows the minutes? We practice until the baby learns to distinguish the arrows unmistakably.
- We learn to look at how many hours the hour hand shows. Usually children get confused when it is placed in an intermediate position between two numbers, so you need to work on this point.
- We explain that five minutes fit between two hours. For clarity, it is better to use a dial where the minutes are written separately. (This will be discussed in a separate paragraph of our article). We train: we call the number and ask the child to say how many minutes it is. After such training, mastering the minute hand will not be difficult.
- We move on to the final stage: we put the hands in a certain position and invite the child to determine what time the clock is showing at the moment. We move the arrows, determine the time again, etc.
Then we ask the child to put the arrows in the desired position (for example, at 5:30, 6:40, etc.).
We will definitely practice our skills on real watches. At every opportunity, while the child’s interest is still active, ask him what time it is.
Why do you need to know what time it is? Time and daily routine.
Often a child who has learned to tell time well does not understand why he needs it. Therefore, when we study time with a child, we make sure to make the lessons practical.
So, using special cards, it is easy to connect time with the baby’s real daily routine - he will be interested in knowing when he wakes up, plays, puts away toys, goes to kindergarten, watches cartoons, and starts classes in the sports section. At this stage, we smoothly move on to understanding the duration of a time period, learning to compare our actions with the dial of a clock.
Sample cards “daily routine of a 1st grade student in pictures”
How to clearly show a child 5 minutes? How to clearly show your child 60 minutes?
As already mentioned, children very often find it difficult to determine the minutes. In order for this skill to be perfected, you can use special dials - for example, a dial with a folding edge. Hours are written on its upper part; each interval between adjacent hours is divided into 5 parts, which are drawn with a bright marker.
This helps to remember that in one step of the arrow from number to number, 5 minutes will pass, and not one. Under the main dial we attach an additional one, on which all the minutes are written (5, 10, 15, etc.). During the lesson, we try to determine the time and compare how many minutes the child has logged with the designation on the lower dial.
You can make an additional dial with the minutes marked on the outer edge of the main one - visual memory will help the child learn this information.
Visual study of time with the constructor
For clarity, you can use the usual Lego constructor, as we used it for. The dial is drawn on a large sheet of paper, with hours on the inner edge and minutes on the outer edge. We lay out its contours using construction blocks, using the same blocks as an arrow. We move the arrow and determine how much time it showed.
What can you do in 1 second? What can you do in 1 minute?
In order for the child to better feel the duration of each time period, after he learns to work with a real clock, we conduct small experiments - we find out how much time it takes to do this or that action, what can be done in the designated period of time. This can be done as a separate game, or it can be combined with ordinary everyday activities - for example, try to determine how much time a child takes for breakfast, washing, getting dressed. So he will gradually learn to calculate his time.
For children who can confidently tell time, we suggest practicing the ability to write the correct time in numbers.
Studying time for preschoolers can be completed with a simple exercise that is often used in school: a certain position of the hands is drawn on the dial, and in the boxes under it you need to write what time the dial shows. This task is used in many tests for admission to high-status schools.
Riddles about clocks and time
And of course, any child will be happy to guess a couple of riddles or learn a simple rhyme about a clock. For example, these:
And day and night they go,
And they won’t budge. (watch)
Runs like a squirrel
On the dial... (arrow)
He takes his last step - and another hour has passed. (minute hand)
I walk without legs
I speak without a mouth.
I point out to everyone
I advise everyone. (watch)
Without unnecessary phrases,
Without many words,
The ticking of the clock will tell you,
When to sleep
When to play
When to run outside.
A watch is an important item in our life. We are very dependent on time and its measurement. Not a day goes by without us looking at our watches at least once. When the child masters numbers, they begin to teach him how to tell time using a clock. But since real clocks move slowly, we suggest using Clock pictures for kids or photos to teach a lesson for kids.
Kinds
Before teaching children to tell time, you should tell them that there are different types of watches, photos and pictures of which you will find on our website. For example, there are sand clocks, solar clocks, wrist clocks, wall clocks, children's clocks, and even antique cuckoo clocks. Different types of watches work differently. Let's look at each of them.
Solar
The very first clock known to mankind was the sun clock. The first people were guided by the position of the sun, and therefore time depended on it. The sundial can be drawn on the sand or on the ground, but can be made from scrap materials. The sundial has an arrow pointing north. To draw or make a sundial, just attach the arrow to the dial and position it in the north direction. The shadow of the arrow will show the exact time.
Sand
This is an unusual watch. Hourglasses do not have a dial. They consist of two communicating vessels into which sand is poured. When an hourglass is turned over, sand pours out of one container into another over a certain amount of time. You can see in the photo what an hourglass looks like on our website.
Wrist
The most convenient and compact watches are wristwatches. They consist of a small dial and a strap with which the wristwatch is secured to the hand. Wristwatches are very convenient for a person: with their help you can always find out what time it is.
Vintage cuckoo clock
Today, you can only find an antique cuckoo clock in your grandparents’ house. Few people use them because antique cuckoo clocks are very bulky and take up a lot of space. In such a watch, every hour an artificial cuckoo peeked out from the dial and made sounds. That is why such a mechanism is today called an “antique cuckoo clock.”
Wall mounted
There are also wall clocks. They don't take up as much space as an antique grandfather cuckoo clock because they hang on the wall. Wall clocks can be of any shape, and the dial can be of any size. Surely there is a wall clock in every home.
You can see what this type of watch looks like in the photo on our website.
How to tell time?
To teach children to tell time, print pictures or photos of clocks from our website. Place the drawn clock on the table, explain it to the children, and then try together to determine the whole hour. Move to minutes when the previous material is fully understood. If you wish, you can print a photo of the watch, cut it out and stick it on a plastic circle. We attach plastic hands to it, and the clock is ready. This is a great teaching tool for kids!
Developmental tasks on the topic
Here you need to determine what time the clock shows.
Studying a clock dial will contribute to the development of mathematical thinking in a child who, as a result of the cognitive process, gets used to numbers, masters ordinal counting at a cognitive level, and masters the technique of addition by increasing a number by one.
How to teach a child to tell time? How to teach a child which hand shows the hour and which hand shows the minutes?
To do this, a hand-made watch will help us.
How to make a clock out of paper?
To get started, download and print an image of a watch face.
Color the picture of a clock with your child using multi-colored pencils, markers or paints.
Carefully cut out a circle.
Cut out arrows from colored paper. The minute hand should be larger than the hour hand.
Make a watch with your own hands
Hours for activities with a child
Setting time together with your child
How to learn to tell time?
1. First, tell your child what each arrow means.
2. At the first stage, you can start training only from a clockwise direction. Explain to your child by the clock what time he gets up (set the hour hand to 7 o’clock), what time the child has breakfast, lunch or dinner, what time he goes to bed, what time he watches his favorite cartoon, etc.
Play a game to reinforce it. Position the hands differently and ask, “What time is it?”
12.00 - twelve o'clock
10.00 - ten o'clock
3. Once your child has learned to tell time using the small hour hand, you can begin teaching the concept of minutes. Explain how many minutes the hand shows at each number of the dial. To do this, you printed the dial mentioned above.
Play games to consolidate minutes. For example, a child puts hands on a paper clock in the same way as showing the time on a wall clock. At the same time, he says in full “What time is it now?” For example:
08.40 - eight hours forty minutes
06.25 - six hours twenty-five minutes
4. After the child has mastered and learned to tell time using both the hour and minute hands, you can teach the child to use expressions such as:
09.15 - fifteen minutes past ten (this is 15 minutes after nine)
08.50 - ten minutes to nine (that's 10 minutes before nine)
10.30 - half past ten
We carry out tasks for consolidation. Watch
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Download and print Clock coloring pages
Chapter clock coloring pages contains images with time measuring instruments - clocks.
In ancient times, time was determined using a sundial; their design was very simple, but at the same time quite reliable. Their significant drawback is the inability to use them in cloudy weather and at night. Currently, this type of watch is not at all popular, because now there are mechanical and electronic watches, they are convenient, compact, mobile, some of them are resistant to damage.
Download and print clock coloring pages for your child, and at the same time share educational information with him. If your little one has a fairly clear idea about hourglasses, electronic watches, and walking watches, then the mysterious phrase “smart watch” probably torments his imagination. Translated from English, “smart” means smart. Smart watches can do a lot, but to work they need a connection with a smartphone. They serve as a second display - they show notifications about incoming calls, messages, and you can also send a short reply from them. In the meantime, your child is still far from playing with modern gadgets, download and print clock coloring pages for him, this is a great opportunity to practice his time telling skills in a fun and relaxed way!
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