To begin the child to learn to define time it is possible from 5 years when he understands what is the sequence of events. He knows that such past, the present and the future. Understands that after day the night comes. For training buy toy watch or make with own hand. Hours have to have the big dial and easily removed arrows. By the time of training your child has to know figures within 60.
Instruction
1. Explain to the child that hours consist of the dial, figures and arrows – minute and hour. When he remembers it, leave only an hour hand and figures. Show how the arrow slowly moves. Explain that if the arrow is on figure one, one hour means. If a little farther a little more than an hour means. On it at you several months can leave. Opposite to figures draw events. For example, near 7 - the child wakes up. 9 – has breakfast in a garden. At first draw only several pictures. You do not hurry time. But constantly ask the child who now hour.
2. Now you pass to mastering of a minute hand. The child has to understand that it is longer the sentry and moves quicker. Then explain that the minute hand passes all circle in one hour. That is passes to the following figure. You ask it to show you how to deliver to the shooter to receive half an hour, hour and half an hour more, two hours and so on.
3. On all dial draw small figures for definition of minutes from 1 to 60. Explain that division between two figures includes 5 minutes and that the minute hand passes a cycle in 60 minutes or one hour. Give to the child of a task to show you movements of an arrow of 10 minutes, 15, 20.
4. Acquaint with it concepts as a quarter of hour, half an hour.
5. Now explain how to define when there passed one minute. Show how on hours 7 minutes will look and as 12. Draw his daily routine together with the child. Opposite to an event draw the dial with the image of time.
6. If it seems to you that the child is already quite prepared, you pass by the present o'clock. Do not wait that at such age the child will be able to understand all subtleties of definition of time. But will be able quite to remember highlights. Set, it is as much as possible questions. Play with the child in definition of time every day. Otherwise he will quickly forget all appeared skills and you should start all process anew.