It's about Time

The Beginners and I worked on time this week. We had a really fun class! Last week, we had gone over telling the time. This included going over phrases like "a quarter after/'til," "half past," "midnight," "noon," etc. Just like 2nd grade, I drew times on a clock, and they told me what time it was.

This week, we reviewed that briefly and moved on to a review of months and days. After we'd successfully gotten a list of the months (in the correct order), we went back through and listed events that happen in each month (holidays mostly) and our birthdays. I asked them questions like, "What holiday is on February 14th?" We also went over the different seasons and categorized the months by season.

Following month review, we reviewed days of the week and created a "schedule" of things to do. One gal said, "SLEEP!" on each day. I'm guessing she doesn't get enough of that in her life...

At the end of the lesson, we play time BINGO. Hannah, Rachel, and I used this last year, and they loved it. Guess what- they still love it. We made BINGO grids (about 4 different varieties). There are 25 spaces (5x5 grid), and we filled them up with time words. Some of the squares have words like "January," "fall", "May 11." Some have pictures of clocks with times drawn in (1:45, 10:30, 6:15). In order to create "midnight," "half past," "a quarter after," the clocks are drawn without numbers- just the hands pointing to the correct positions. We also included numbers like 24 (hours), 365 (days), 366, 52 (weeks). We played about 3 or 4 rounds because they liked it so much!