Units of time and ways of showing times - Teaching Presentation - Year 1

This presentation provides three days of teaching that cover the objectives:

• Know the order of days of the week and months of the year.
• Tell the time to the nearest half hour
• Find times half an hour later.

It includes starter activities, whole class teaching, group activities, practice sheets and mastery questions. It can be used on a variety of interactive whiteboards.

Day 1 Teaching
Hang days of the week along a washing line, beginning with Monday. Chant and rehearse the order. Then hang the months of the year on the line and rehearse these, beginning with January. Ask children when their birthdays are – they write their names on sticky notes and attach to their birthday month. Swap or remove a month card… Open your eyes. Which month is missing?

Day 2 Teaching
Use ITP Tell the Time. Rehearse the analogue times at o’clock and at half past the hour. Give a small clock to each pair. Ask them to set times – either o’clock or half past. Remind children how to write the time in the digital form. Repeat with half-past times, with children setting clock hands before writing the time in digital form, e.g. 4:30.

Day 3 Teaching
Use ITP Tell the Time. Show the time that Jess gets home from school (half past 3). Then discuss what she does for her evening and move the clock to show the half hour intervals. Children match spoken times to o’clock times by showing times on their clocks.

This teaching is part of Hamilton’s Year 1 Money and Time block. Each Hamilton maths block contains a complete set of planning and resources to teach a term’s worth of objectives for one of the National Curriculum for England’s maths areas.