You can begin to teach a child to determine time from the age of 5, when he understands what a sequence of events is. He knows what the past, present and future are. Realizes that after the day comes the night. For training, buy a toy watch or make your own. The watch should have a large dial and easily removable hands. By the time of learning, your child should know numbers within 60.
Instructions
Step 1
Explain to your child that a watch consists of a dial, numbers and hands - minute and hour. When he remembers this, leave only the hour hand and numbers. Show how slowly the arrow moves. Explain that if the hand is at one, it is one hour. If a little further means a little over an hour. This may take you several months. Draw events in front of the numbers. For example, next to 7 - the child wakes up. 9 - has breakfast in the kindergarten. Draw just a few pictures at first. Don't rush the time. But keep asking your child what time it is.
Step 2
Now move on to mastering the minute hand. The child must understand that it is longer than the hour and moves faster. Then explain that the minute hand goes all the way around in one hour. That is, it moves on to the next digit. Ask him to show you how to put the hand to get half an hour, an hour and another half hour, two hours, and so on.
Step 3
Draw small numbers across the entire dial to identify the minutes from 1 to 60. Explain that the division between two numbers includes 5 minutes and that the minute hand completes a full circle in 60 minutes or one hour. Give the child the tasks to show you with the movements of the arrow 10 minutes, 15, 20.
Step 4
Introduce concepts such as a quarter of an hour, half an hour.
Step 5
Now explain how to determine when one minute has passed. Show how 7 minutes will look on the clock, and how 12. Draw with your child his daily routine. Draw a clock face opposite the event.
Step 6
If it seems to you that the child is already quite prepared, move on to the present. Do not expect that at this age a child will be able to understand all the intricacies of timing. But he will be able to remember the main points. Ask as many questions as possible. Play timing with your child every day. Otherwise, he will quickly forget all the skills that have appeared and you will have to start the whole process from the beginning.
