Last week, we spent a lot of time learning about clocks and how to tell the time!

This is never an easy concept to teach and usually needs to be broken up into small steps.

First, we started basic, what does a analogue clock look like and how do you draw one correctly? We learn which numbers are on a clock, how many numbers, where to position the numbers and how to position them accurately, how many minute lines go between each number, how many hands the clock has and what they do.

After we worked all of that out, we had a go at drawing a clock together as a group and then we had a go at drawing our own clocks as accurately as we could.

The next step was to work out which space on the clock belonged to which hour. We worked that out as a group and then we had a go at colouring the correct hour’s space in the correct colour.

Once this was done we could start working out how to tell the time – o’clock, half past and quarter past.

This week we will continue practicing reading the time, learning about AM and PM and talking about the different things we do at different times of the day.

This week was also full of lots of other learning experiences too!

During Writer’s Workshop Tanish recreated his own version of one of his very favourite books.  Have a look…