Year 4 KO Reference h
Use units of time and know the relationships between them (second, minute, hour, day, week, month, year).
8. How many hours are there in 1 day?
20. A cake went into the oven at 9:15 and came out again at 9:50. How long
was it in the oven?
Key Words
Time, second, minute, hour, day, week, months, year, clock, analogue, digital, How long? How many hours are there in …? a.m. p.m. minute/long hand, hour/short hand.
Key Questions
How do you work out the number of minutes in a number of hours etc.?
Are there any things that help you remember numbers of seconds, minutes etc.?
Practical Activities
Use class clock and individual clocks ‘Show Me’ activities, ‘This is …. o’clock, now show me the time 15 minutes earlier/later.’ ‘What is the next hour?’ ‘This time is ten past six. What will the time be in four hours?’
Make some cards with word problems on them (see examples below) – encourage individuals to read and solve.
Use individual clocks; practice telling the time e.g. 9 o’clock, five past nine, ten past nine, quarter past nine …
Use a minute timer/stop watch; record how many words the pupil can write, how many numbers they can write, how many jumps/hops they can make etc – encourage estimates to be made first.
Oral practice for quick recall of facts.
Knuckles for Jan, Feb etc. : bumps for 31 days, hollows for less than 31!
Share the poem – ‘30 days has September …’
Revise days of the week, seasons etc.
Use calendars to solve word problems. For example: ‘Judy visits the dentist on Friday 3rd December. She has to return two weeks later. What will the date be?’
Encourage pupils to split times down into short, easy stages. For example 20. above 9:15 to 9:45 (30 minutes) then to 9:50 (5 minutes more, giving a total of 35 minutes).
Use Bus/Train Timetables, TV/Radio Times to ask questions.
Written Activities
Worksheets to link with the above practical activities.
Worksheet including associated word problems.
Worksheet to revise telling the time (analogue and digital).
Worksheet to show what the pupil does at different times during the day.
IT
: Teaching Time.
See for worksheets, resources etc all linked with time.
NNS ITP : ‘Tell the time’
Games
Time Bingo, Time Dominoes, Time Snap etc.
Home activities/Homework
Activities/worksheets to develop skills in telling the time. Parents can be asked to help with making a Maths Sack which may contain the following; story books – telling the time, individual clocks, a collection of word problem cards, flashcards (language of time), Time Bingo, Time Dominoes, Time Snap etc. Suggested activities and prompt sheets could also be included.
Springboard 4
Unit 8
Pages 96 - 103
4KOh