Learn to read the clock
It is easier for children to learn to read the clock when it is done in a playful way. Read this article to find out how you can help your child understand the time.
Adults read the time automatically without having to think about it. But it is often not so easy for children to learn how the clock works, especially when it comes to the "more complicated" version with a clock face. But you can teach your child to read the clock in a playful way. To do this, you will make a large clock together with your child, which you can then practice on. Prepare 24 small photos, pictures or stickers in advance, all of which symbolize different activities. You can use photos of your child, but also pictures of animals, for example.
This is how your child learns to read the time
- First of all, it's time to make the clock itself. To do this, cut out a large circle out of colored cardboard.
- Now cut out two pointers from two different colored cardboard. The hour hand should be shorter and thicker than the minute hand. You can neglect the second hand for now.
- Then make a small hole in the round cardboard and in the bottom ends of the two pointers.
- Then you take the hook for test consignments and use it to connect the hands to the clock. You bend the metal ends of the hook on the back of the clock to the left and right.
- Then take a thick felt-tip pen and draw the times. Always draw in both times, i.e. 0 and 12, 1 and 13 and so on. Leave space for a small picture or photo next to each number.
- Hang the clock on the wall and take the prepared pictures, stickers or photos to hand.
- Now you can teach your child to read the clock. Explain to your child that it is very late in the night, for example that they get up at 7 a.m. and im at 10 a.m. kindergarten is.
- Every hour on the hour you discuss an activity and for each activity you stick a picture together. You can then query the times: Give your child an activity, then they should set the hands to the correct time and tell you the time.
- In this way your child will learn to memorize full hours. You can then discuss the principle of half an hour with the help of the pictures: "At 12 o'clock you take a nap, but by 12:30 pm you are halfway through". Your child will associate the times and periods with activities and understand them in this way.
It is important for your children's entire life that they learn to watch the clock ...
With this self-made clock, you can practice the times with your child over and over again - until they playfully master them like an adult.
