This week in the discovery room we have been exploring time through the use of the sand timers and the digital stopwatch on the iPads.
“Mine is at 14 min now”
”mine is the fasted”
“These two are the same 3 minute”
The children have been enjoying watching the sand run though the sand timers. We have been discussing which one we think is fastest and slowest. We all had a turns using the digital timers to measure how long our sand timers took to stop.
We discovered the sand timer had a 1min timer, 2min timer, 3min and 5 min timer.
At nursery we always do 2 minutes of tooth brushing to keep our teeth healthy and use the timers to time 2 min of brushing.
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The children were then set the challenge to see if they could do star jumps for 1 min. We then used the timers to time 1 min. It was hard work to keep going but we did it!
One minute of star jumps wasn’t enough to tire our Cart Mill boys and girls, we set a further challenge of jumping for 3min. The children assured me they could do it and they didn’t disappoint. Well done everyone.
After all that exercise we decided to use our 5min timer to do a 5 minute cool down of walking around the table.
The children have enjoyed exploring the timers in different ways and it has helped keep us all warm on such a cold morning.
