Time (2)
Strand: Measures
Strand unit: Time (2)
Curriculum Objectives
Identify and discuss significant times in the day–morning, afternoon, evening, night.
Record orally and pictorially the time sequence of 4 events in the school day.
Read time in 1-hour intervals.
Pages in the textbook: Pages 86 and 87
Clocks
Clocks
Draw the hour hand on each clock.
Draw the hour hand in black. Draw the minute hand in blue.
Fig 086-02
REPEAT
9 o’clock
7 o’clock
2 o’clock
12 o’clock
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Strand
Strand Unit
Measures
Time
Objectives
8 o’clock
Page 86
morning
__ __ __ __ __ __ __
9 o’clock
afternoon
__ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __
3 o’clock
evening
__ __ __ __ __ __ __
5 o’clock
night
__ __ __ __ __
8 o’clock
5 o’clock
6 o’clock
10 o’clock
Read the time in one hour intervals.
Page 87
Strand
Strand
Strand Unit
Strand Unit
Measures
Number
Time
xx
Objectives
Objectives
3 o’clock
Discuss significant times in a day, record orally and
X
pictorially
the time sequence of four events in the
day.
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Let’s look back: What the Junior Infants programme covered
1. State the order of familiar events.
2. Sequence daily events or stages in a story or rhyme
3. Order pictures in correct time sequence.
Maths skills used in this topic
Reasoning
Understand and recall facts and terminology
Integrating and connecting
Recognise mathematics in the environment
Sequence daily events or stages in a story or rhyme
Concrete materials
Individual clock faces (see page 194)
Vocabulary
Today is…… tomorrow will be…….. yesterday was ………morning, afternoon, evening, night,
before/after, early/late, sooner/later, seasons, week days, weekend, months
Linkage
Number: Sequencing events in a story
Measures: Telling the time, sequencing events as they occur throughout the day
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Integration
SESE History: Creating a timeline
Pre-page ideas
Page 86:
1. Name various activities occurring throughout the day and invite children, individually or in
groups, to respond with an appropriate time matching each action. For example:
I get up in the... morning
I go to school in the ... morning
I come home in the ... afternoon
I watch TV in the ... afternoon/evening
I go to bed at ... night
(Variation: Repeat the activity but ask children to suggest an appropriate time for each action.)
Page 87:
Group work:
One child mimes an action, e.g. getting dressed, other children must identify the action and suggest
the appropriate time of day and time when the action is most likely to occur. For example: morning
at 8 o’clock.
Lesson suggestions
1. Introduce the clock face and explain that time is broken into hours and minutes. Point out and
name the long hand (minute) and short hand (hour). Demonstrate how the hands move around
the clock face at different speeds but in 1 direction only, i.e. clockwise.
Group /pair work:
Using a stop watch/timer to measure a 1-minute interval and invite the children to find out:
How many 5 cube blocks can be built?
How many links/cubes can be put together?
How tall a tower of blocks can be built?
How many bundles of 10 lollipop sticks can be made?
How many words can be written?
How many letters of the alphabet can be written?
2. Teach the rhyme ‘Mr Tic Tic Toc the Talking Clock’:
My name is Mr Tic Tic Toc
I am your friend the talking clock,
You must agree my face is strange
It has 2 hands that always change!
In one direction round they go
1 goes fast and 1 goes slow.
Now if you watch my long hand
You may see the minutes go
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But not my short hand for the hours
Because it moves so slow.
So if you want to read the clock
Just listen to my rhyme
It really is quite easy
To learn to tell the time.
Question: Long hand 12, short hand 1–tic toc what have I got?
Answer: Long hand 12, short hand 1–tic toc 1 o’clock
Game
Use the question/response at the end of the rhyme to play various games, e.g.
teacher asks a question and the whole class responds together
teacher asks a question and 1 child responds
a child asks a question and a group responds
a child asks a question and a volunteer responds
Parental involvement
Organising the daily/weekly schedule of activities, e.g.
We get up at ... o’clock
We go to school at ... o’clock
We go swimming on ... at ... o’clock
We go to dancing class on ... at ... o’clock
We go to football training on ... at ... o’clock
Photocopiable templates
Draw the hour hand on each clock
Fill in the missing numbers. Show the correct time on each clock.
3 o’clock
2 o’clock
4 o’clock
9 o’clock
12 o’clock
1 o’clock
10 o’clock
7 o’clock
5 o’clock
8 o’clock
11 o’clock
Date: ___________________
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Name: _______________________________________
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10 o’clock
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Name: _______________________________________
8 o’clock
Date: ___________________
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