We show you how children can learn the time on the clock. What time is it? What time do we play? When do we go out for a bike ride? Is it time for a snack? Have we arrived yet?
I imagine that as parents you are used to the thousand and one questions that children ask every day of the year and that no matter how many answers we give them, they ask again and again.
The questions that I get asked the most are always at times when I'm doing everyday things like: Is it time to eat yet? What time do we go out? Or the one we "like" the most on a Sunday at 7:00 in the morning - Is it time to get up and have breakfast? - while a pair of eyes wake you up almost collapsing from fright.
We have decided to teach children how the hours of the day work so that they themselves learn to manage their time little by little and in a fun way. All this, so that this very useful tool is not an unpleasant experience.
1.- Firstly, we have told them how the day is divided so that they can always get into their usual activities: in the morning we get up, in the afternoon we have a snack...
2.- To start with the numbers mess, a good option is for them to wear a children's watch on their wrist and see how it works.
The hour and half hours are always the easiest to learn. Then the quarters and finally the minutes. The left half of the clock is usually a bit difficult for kids ☺, but once they know all the above, they are so curious that they learn them quickly.
Our little ones have been determined to learn the time digitally and we have told them the trick of subtracting 2 numbers. For example, 13:00, we subtract 2 from the 3 and we will have the time left.
Little by little they are understanding how the hours work, they are becoming more aware of what is done at each moment of the day and on Sundays, although we continue to have “micro-infarcts” in the morning, with inquisitive eyes they know that it is too early for everything!!
In the end, the tables will turn and you will be the ones to ask the questions of the hour.
