🔢 Numbers & shapes · Ages 5–6 · about 3 weeks
Time and Days
Goal: Order the parts of the day and the days of the week, and read o'clock times.
For parents: Time is abstract. Tie it to your child's own routine: 'We eat lunch at 1 o'clock', 'On Friday we visit Nani'.
Do together
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My day in pictures
You need: Paper, crayonsDraw four things you do each day: wake up, school, lunch, sleep. Put them in order and say 'morning, afternoon, evening, night'.
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Paper plate clock
You need: A paper plate, card for the hands, a split pinWrite the numbers 1–12. Make it 7 o'clock, 3 o'clock. Say where the long hand points for every o'clock (straight up to 12).
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Days of the week song
You need: A calendarSing the days every morning and point to today. What day was yesterday? What day is tomorrow?
Talk about it
- What do we do in the morning?
- What day comes after Tuesday?
- What time do you go to bed?
Words to use
- morning
- afternoon
- evening
- night
- o'clock
- yesterday
- tomorrow
Play
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Day & Night
Day & night -
Story Steps
Sequencing -
Number Match
Numbers
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