Time (Games and activities to help at home. Please let us know if you find any other helpful sites)
http://www.ictgames.com/time.htm
Intended learning for first level
| Learn to tell the time using both analogue and digital clocks. |
| Learn to relate times to routine events. |
| Learn to express times in conventional ways e.g. quarter to eleven and 10:45am. |
| Learn to link times expressed in 12 and 24 hour notation i.e. 9:30am = 0930, 9:30pm = 2130 |
| Learn to calculate some time intervals by counting on including, over the hour. |
| Learn to manage time e.g. by estimating how long it will take to get ready, allocating time for activities |
| Learn to use a calendar and diary e.g. How long before we go on holiday? How many weeks are we away? What is the first day of April? What is the date next Wednesday? |
| Learn to read and write dates in different ways i.e. 12.05.13, 12th of May 2013. |
| Learn that months are made up of different numbers of days. |
| Learn that there are 7 days in a week, 12 months in a year, 52 weeks in a year, 365 or 366 days in a year. |
| Learn how long routine events take e.g. interval lasts 20 minutes; it takes 10 minutes to walk home. |
| Learn to use various timers to record how long a task takes. |
| Learn to calculate how long tasks take from the start to finish time by counting on. |
