If your little one is five years old, you are ready to understand how to read the time on the clock!
Once the little ones know the numbers, you can start the process of learning to read the clock and tell the time, both on a digital clock and on the hands. Check out these tips:
First of all make sure that your little one already knows how to count to 60, so he can know not only the hour but also the minutes. In addition, you must know how to count from five to five to understand the operation of a watch with hands.
How to teach him?
First, teach him the language and expressions used and what each of them means, such as? Two o’clock ?? Two-fifteen ?? Two-thirty ?, fourth, ten, etc. At first, it will be difficult for you to identify 15 minutes of an hour, so start with the easy, full hours and half hours.
Start teaching with a digital clock so that you become familiar with these concepts and when you understand it now one of the hands passes.
It is helpful to have a watch with large numbers and no glass or mica so you can change the hands and ask it to tell you the hours. In addition, it will be easier for you to understand that the shorthand shows the minutes, the large hand the hours and the thinner hand, the seconds.
It is better to start reading it with the time “English”, that is, using the numbers from 1 to 12 for both day and night. For example, 12 noon and 12 of the night or midnight.
When your little one is bigger and has mastered the first concepts, you can continue with the military schedule where 4 in the afternoon is 16 hours, etc.
Finally, and very importantly, don’t do a task, make it fun!