Time learning games for preschoolers

05.06.2015

In order to introduce your child to time, we suggest you start with the fairy tale “Time and the Baby.”

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Read the most interesting book “Time and the Baby”, you will definitely learn something new for yourself.

Category:	Education
Date of:	04.06.2015

The first basics of studying time

How to teach a preschooler to understand a clock?

Abstract thinking appears only at school age; before that, children cannot adequately perceive it, so if something doesn’t work out, don’t be upset. You need to start with the most extensive and simple concept - an explanation of the seasons, seasonality. By the way, you can read about it here. Next, you need to move on to studying the months and days of the week.

But, first things first. First, you need to explain the main properties of time:

the time in a day is repeated in a circle (for clarity, there is a round dial),
Time is fleeting and nothing can be returned back.

There seem to be two such serious oppositions, but nevertheless, this needs to be explained. Take an electronic watch and a simple mechanical one.

The round dial is a symbol of repetition in a circle (it is morning now and tomorrow will be morning and yesterday began in the morning).

And the numbers replacing each other on an electronic clock symbolize time “escaping into eternity.” This can even be demonstrated by an hourglass.

Is the child already 2-3 years old?

Start by discussing his age. Now you are 2 years old, in a year you will be 3, and in two years you will be 5... and when your brother goes to school, you will be 6 years old. The child should have some guidelines from which he will build. Or in a slightly different direction: a year ago you knew how to do this, now you can do “this”..., and in a year you will be able to do something else.

A second, no a minute

To make it easier for the baby to navigate such complex concepts as hour and minute with seconds. For each explanation, you need to come up with an action that will coincide in duration with the interval being explained. For example, stamping your foot takes a second, walking from a room to some object takes a minute, but walking from home to kindergarten (if it’s far away) takes an hour.

Don’t rush to explain what the arrow means in this or that place, it doesn’t matter now, teach a small child to perform all the actions sequentially in time. First - breakfast, then - a game, then - a walk, etc. And break each of these events into points and emphasize it to the child. Breakfast: we sit at the table - take a spoon - eat porridge - drink milk - wash, etc. The same with the rest of the “large” actions, we break everything up. Be sure to indicate: in the morning we will have breakfast, in the afternoon we will sleep and go for a walk, and in the evening dad will come home from work and we will have dinner. This way you will instill in your child the simplest temporal concepts: what happens during the day and that tomorrow everything will happen again. Those. within one day nothing repeats itself, and tomorrow everything starts anew.

Be sure to accompany your actions with words.

Future First we'll eat, then we'll take a walk. First we'll play dominoes, then a puzzle, etc.

The present

Now let's go eat and then go for a walk. Now we are playing dominoes, and then we will put together a puzzle.

Past

First we ate, and then we walked. First we played dominoes, and then we put together a puzzle.

Show didactic pictures that help understand the sequence of actions taking place. Describe what is depicted there, ask the child to talk about the image.

making a training dial

How to teach your child to understand which hand shows the hour and which hand shows the minutes?
Make a homemade dial, with the help of which your child will learn to understand how the hands move, what numbers are present and what it all means. This certainly helps to develop from a mathematical point of view. The child develops a concept of numbers and may even learn to count. For older children, it will be easy to learn adding numbers. Let's get down to business, print out the dial, let the child decorate it, he also wants to be a full-fledged participant in the creative process. Cut in a circle; if the child confidently wields scissors, trust him to do this; no, protect him from this. Cut out arrows from thick cardboard: small and large. If you have hands from an old clock, that’s great. Make a hole in the center of the dial. It’s not bad if the dial is glued to cardboard, it will be much more durable. Screw the hands to the dial using a bolt and nut. It turns out to be a very convenient guide.

Where to begin?

1. Explain the meaning of the short and long arrows. 2. Start with the clockwise hand (you can remove the long one for now, so as not to confuse you): what number it is on and how much it shows.

Well, we wanted to correlate this time with the action taking place in the baby’s life (7 am – the child gets up, 8 am – comes to kindergarten, etc.). 3.

Dawn and Dusk

It is very important for children to connect new concepts with specific examples. Let’s say that a child will quickly learn the word “day” if it is associated with the visible sun in the sky. That is, abstract symbols and concepts are not yet available to children’s brains. Therefore, in kindergarten manuals you can find a lot of visual material for teaching children.

Day/night is understandable and easy for the child to understand. It is more difficult to explain what morning is and what evening is. Why are they called differently, and what is their fundamental difference? To do this, show the child pictures that depict human activity.

Let's say the morning differs from the day in that you need to brush your teeth and wash your face after sleep. The picture clearly shows this. During the day, children walk outside and play on the playground, and in the evening they play at home or in the kindergarten. Thus, the processes of activity are organized in the child’s mind and a logical chain “time of day - actions” is formed.

Category: Clocks and time - online games and exercise machines

Interactive clock with moving hands. The arrows are connected to each other. The simulator will help you learn the time on the clock.

A simulator that ends the series of educational games in the “Time” section. You will need to move the clock hands with the mouse to the specified time. You can see the correct answer if there is an error. 30 tasks of our online game will help to perfectly reinforce the topic “Time on the clock”

Interactive teaching aid - a game in which we will teach the minutes and hours of the afternoon. The game has 2 sections - minutes and hours, each of which has a study mode and 2 tests.

We learn time on an electronic clock and a clock with a dial at the same time. Set the time on the electronic clock and click the “Show” button. This manual can also be used for self-testing.

Interactive manual - game. Move the hour hand and you will see the time of day change: morning, afternoon, evening, night.

Learn time with our extraordinary clock! You can move the clock hands with the mouse and set your own time. There are hints that you can turn off and use for self-testing.

Source: https://kid-mama.ru/category/igry-i-trenazhery/chasy-i-vremya/

Tomorrow and yesterday

The categories of time “tomorrow, today, yesterday, the day after tomorrow” are not yet accessible to the baby’s understanding, because they are not associated with activity and tactile/visual sensations. To teach your child to distinguish between these concepts, it is necessary to start from activity. For example, the kid remembered well the trip to the circus. How can this event be used to teach time? Must speak:

tomorrow we will go to the circus;
today we watched tigers at the circus;
where were we yesterday?

The child will understand the concept of “yesterday” faster, because he remembers yesterday’s events. It is more difficult to explain and understand the word “tomorrow”. To do this, tell us when “tomorrow” comes:

first the baby should go to bed at night;
the next morning “tomorrow” will come.

Gradually, the baby will begin to understand the difference between “today, tomorrow and yesterday.” The main thing is that you should not rush your child into mastering new (abstract) concepts and get angry at his lack of understanding. Over time, he will master everything.

Didactic game “Parts of the Day”

The formation of time concepts is based on clarity, therefore teachers use a large number of paintings and didactic games aimed at developing a sense of time, forming ideas about the seasons, time of day, days of the week.

This didactic game can be recommended for consolidating knowledge about the time of day in children 3-5 years old.

Didactic manual “Who lives in the house”

Goal: to train children in the ability to distinguish parts of the day; expand knowledge about people’s actions in different parts of the day; develop imagination, create an image based on visual and auditory perception.

Materials and equipment: manufactured cardboard houses; plot drawings depicting children’s actions in different parts of the day.

Options for tasks and activities for this manual

1.Task:

Each child receives a picture depicting the actions of people (children) in different parts of the day.

The child needs to name these actions and put the picture under the corresponding house.

Motor activity of children

“What does the sun do at different parts of the day?”

I.P. — The children sat down in a circle;

The sun rises - morning comes
1 - children stand up;
The sun is above - it's a day outside
2-hands up;
The sun sets - evening comes
3-sat down;
The sun sleeps - night comes
4 - children lie down on mats.

Exercise “Show the action”

The teacher names a certain part of the day or selects the appropriate house. The children’s task is to show, with the help of gestures and facial expressions, the actions of people that they perform (can perform) at a specified time of day.

Source: https://mirdoshkolnikov.ru/o-detyach/igri-dlya-doshkolnikov/item/442-didskticheskaya-igra-chasti-sutok

Fixing the material

In order for the studied material to become embedded in the child’s memory, it is necessary to have daily conversations on a given topic. For example, you ask a child:

What did you do in kindergarten this morning?
What did you have for breakfast this morning?
did you play on the playground during the day?
What did you have for lunch this afternoon?

Here it is important to associate the time of day with food intake: breakfast - morning, lunch - afternoon, dinner - evening. These are new concepts for the baby, but he will easily learn them using specific examples. In everyday communication with your baby, mention the names of meals more often (let's go to dinner, the bunny wants breakfast, etc.).

You can also use visual material in pictures. Let’s say you put a picture of “evening” in front of your child and ask about the time. It is important to establish a dialogue with the baby and encourage him to tell a story using leading questions. Let's say you ask a child: is it evening or day? After answering, you ask why he says this?

Morning

Important! After understanding the differences between evening/morning/day/night, it is necessary to explain that they make up the day and are part of them. Just like a bear and a bunny have a common name - toys.

Night