Montessori Clock
A wooden clock (not a working clock) marked with hours and minutes and the 24-hour clock. The wooden hands have circular holes to view these numbers through. An excellent way to demonstrate time saying to a child.
Even before children can tell time, they want to know how long they can play outside and when their parents will return home from work. They may also notice the hands moving on an analog clock or the numbers changing on a digital clock. There are individual packs with parts of a clock, on the hour, half-hour, 15-minute intervals, 5-minute intervals, to the minute, down to the second, Roman numerals, addition and subtraction, and multiplication and division.
Since schedules are an essential part of a child’s daily life, children naturally become curious about time. These are golden opportunities to teach kids how to tell time.
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PRESENTATION :
Before moving onto half past, the child must have worked with the fraction circles. They should understand what 1/2, 1/4, and 3/4 mean. I explain to the child, that when the minute hand is pointing to 6 we say half past, as half of the hour has passed. I show the minute hand starting from 12 slowly moving round to 6.
Purpose
Kids can see the hands of the clock move eg, notice the passage of time.
The round shape represents the rhythmic cycles of day and night.
Mathematically, skip counting by 5s, and multiples of 5 can be visualized. Fractions are introduced through the concept of quarter past, half past, and quarter till X o’clock.
Direct purpose
Introduce the clock as a circle with 12 numbers around the edges.
Understand that 1 hour = 60 minutes
Learn hour and minute hands
Master skip counting by 5s
Teachers will present formal Three-Period Lessons on the parts of the clock, the “minute hand,” “second hand” and “hour hand,” for example, or skip counting lessons counting the minutes by fives around the sixty segments of the clock face. Children can practice “telling time,” by counting off the hour and minutes on the clock. If a child knows the numerals from one to ten, the teens, and the tens, she might be invited to a lesson identifying those on the face of the clock.