How to teach children to read the hours

My son asked me yesterday that from what age an old person becomes. And he glanced instinctively at his little watch, as if the years could be trapped there. And for a child, the concept of time is as or more complex as a convoluted algebra operation. In the end, the hours, minutes and seconds are n

My son asked me yesterday that from what age an old person becomes. And he glanced instinctively at his little watch, as if the years could be trapped there. And for a child, the concept of time is as or more complex as a convoluted algebra operation.

In the end, the hours, minutes and seconds are not more than mathematics. If children learn to read and count to a hundred, why will not they learn the hours? As of the age of five, they are beginning to be interested in watches, the years and the passing of time. Let's take this opportunity to teach them how to read the time on their watch.Games to teach children the hours of the clock

Today there are clocks designed especially for children to learn the hours. They include voice so that they can listen to it and interactive pets so that in the meantime they differentiate between day, afternoon and night. But

children can also be taught to understand clocks through the game .1. The simplest clocks for them are

those that mark the digital time . They just have to read the numbers that appear on the screen. Your mission is to understand that the first number is the one that 'talks' about the time and the other two numbers are the ones that tell us how many minutes have passed. If the child is very small, he will not understand that the day has 24 hours and that each hour means sixty seconds.- To understand it, you can use chickpeas

. You paint a few chickpeas of red and others of blue, and you tell him that reds are hours and blues are minutes. You put on the table for example two red and ten blue chickpeas. You explain that in that case it would be two and 10 minutes.2. For

the hand clocks is somewhat more complex. The first thing you must understand is that the small hand always marks the hour and the long hand, the minutes. You can start by teaching them the half hour and the hour on the dot. That is, when the long hand points to 6 and when both hands are in 12. - Build a cardboard clock

, round and with their numbers (you can use a round cardboard plate). For the hands, you can use straws or even pens. One has to be shorter, obviously. Divide the circle into portions as if they were cheeses for every five minutes and paint them in different colors. Every five minutes, the 'portion' of cheese and the color will change. Play with them to move the hands.3. Let jue play with an alarm clock mue and move the handles. Children love it to sound. Tell them to set the alarm at a certain time. They will have a great time!