This week we worked on the concept of time. It is such a confusing concept, with minutes and seconds and hours and days, weeks, months, before, after, during and so forth and so on! :) But, we stuck with the basics, and started with just showing that there are the numbers 1 through 12 on a clock. We used this giant clock and bean bags to try to make a shot in each number in order!
We used our scissors and made our own paper clocks for a center this week too. Again, I wanted to emphasize the twelve numbers on the clock, as well as the big hand and the little hand.
We discussed how there are 24 hours in a day, and talked about how the big hand is on the 12 whenever a new hour strikes. We then used our flashcards to practice. We picked a card, and leaving the big hand on the 12, we moved our little hand to one o'clock, two o'clock and so forth. Great number recognitioin practice and basic clock conception.
The next day during circle time, I named an hour of day, and the kids turned their clocks to that hour!
For some writing practice, we used our hula hoop and made another giant clock on our white board. The kids filled in the blank numbers of 1 through 12.
We had letter review practice with our A-Z letter puzzles.
And, built our letters with our long straight lines, short straight lines, long curvy lines, and short curvy lines.
Along with the concept of time, we timed out how long a minute is, and played our own version of minute to win it. We had different obstacles that we had to pass off in a minute or less, such as sorting a bunch of colored items into the correct color of crayon, and adding the shape pegs to their correct shaped board.
We also learned a song about the days of the week, and made these flashcards to help us remember the order of the days from 1 to 7.
Our star of the week this week:
Sam I am!!
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