The age at which it is necessary to train the child in hours is especially individual. Everything depends on already available knowledge and ability to read and consider. Usually the child easily acquires features of the hour dial by five years when understands that time can be measured.
Instruction
1. It is necessary to begin with training in figures and their temporary value. For this purpose address the simplest game tasks on arrangement of figures on magnetics, on drawing of hours in a coloring, on drawing up a puzzle dial. Sound to the child of a riddle about time and the calendar. The improvised dial can be stuck together from plasticine or to stick together from cardboard. Make or get hours with mobile shooters and large figures. Hang up on a foreground in the children's room and periodically draw to them the attention of the child, pointing to the direction of an arrow towards a certain figure during rise, a breakfast, a lunch or withdrawal for sleeping.
2. Without postponing for a long time, explain to the child types of arrows, tell what is hours, minutes and seconds. Try to make it figuratively, visually. Begin with the concept "hour". Tell that in every day the equal number of hours that the hour hand passes per day two circles, and minute does one turn for an hour, etc. In communication with the child pronounce time of the beginning and end of occupation, demonstrate this time on toy and present hours. The child has to understand that all three arrows are interconnected: when the minute hand passes a circle, hour - moves only on one division. The child will monitor the movement of arrows, acquiring interrelation of their course. You do not hurry him, perhaps, to be necessary for the little person several days or months what to begin to be guided in time.
3. For full understanding acquaint the child with different types of hours and dials. Explain that on some of them a part of figures is missed, and at times they are absent all. But it does not cancel the course of time and value of the directions of arrows. Only after that it is necessary to pass to training of use of hours with electronic figures.