We started with a timer..getting her use to minutes first...5, 10 ,15 and then gots books at half.com..a good one for younger kids and nice pictures was called:
"First concepts~Time" by Sarah Kappely and Andrea Pinnington"
It is a also good for making a daily schedule..lots of lift the flaps and a clock with hands..we also got the talking teaching clock at different roads to learning online store..or check Lillian Vernon..they have great teaching tools/toys:) Good luck~A large clock with real numbers instead of roman numbers at eye level would help too:) refer to it often especially meals, baths, and bedtime..ect..
no help or advice, but ...
T is learning it in Kindergarten ... Sat night she had on her analog-style birthday watch (which I had assumed was more ornamental than anything), looked at it, and announced, "It's 8 o'clock!" (normal bedtime and we were out shopping). I about keeled over. Her weekly newletter from teacher SAID they were learning, and to ask them about how to tell, but when I said she fell silent ...
HAH. SHE GETS IT!
Any tips on how to teach my son to tell time?
He is suddenly motivated, and he has a watch, a clock toy, a couple clock puzzles, etc. I also know of few websites:
Sites with a mix:
http://www.fi.edu/time/Journey/JustInTime/contents.html - lesson plans, interactive activities (including a story generator), and printables
http://www.time-for-time.com - clock to experiment with, worksheets, etc.
Online games/activities:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/tikkabilla/games/clock.shtml - excellent game from BBC. 3 levels of difficulty.
http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/willy/willy.html - 2 person game
http://www.woodlandwideweb.the-office.org.uk/elearningnumera cy.htm - 4 online activities
http://www.apples4theteacher.com/java/telling-time/index.htm l - setting the clock online activity
http://www.apples4theteacher.com/clocks.html - comparing digital and analog online activity
www.jambav.com - click on "channel 2" for a clock game. Move the hands, and click on the cuckoo to hear the time (note, says 9:45, not "quarter to 10" for example).
http://www.helpkidzlearn.com/findout/readit_clock.html - audio clock (whole hours only).
http://sqooltools.com/edvideos/time/index.html - Online videos about telling time.
http://www.kidsnumbers.com/ - scroll down for the clock menu (almost all the way down, on the right).
Printables:
http://themathworksheetsite.com/telling_time.html - worksheet generator. No more duplicates! Choose your difficulty level.
http://www.senteacher.org/Print/ - two clock worksheet generators.
http://math.about.com/od/countin1/a/time.htm - worksheets
http://boardgames.about.com/od/solitaire/a/clock.htm - rules for clock solitaire card game.
Products:
http://homeschooling.about.com/od/mathfunandgames/tp/timegam es.htm - product list
Links:
http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/homeschoolingmommaof4/Time - more links
http://www.surfnetkids.com/related.php?t=Telling+Time&c= /telling_time.htm - lots of links
Any other ideas? What's worked for you?
Thanks for the tips. We actually had a parent-teacher conference on Monday, and his special ed teacher said she wanted to start working on telling time at school, too. She didn't know we were already planning on doing this, so it was a nice coincidence. I'll let you know how it goes.
I haven't worked much on it teaching the clock this week because of the extra work involved in celebrating the Norwegian equivalent of July 4th, plus making a book for him which we're going to use in telling him about his autism diagnosis -- today!
Thanks again.
I understand. I have had students that seem to learn time or money very slowly and then all of a sudden it's like it just clicks and they get it. So I can see where a lot of extended instruction periods would be best.
ou and the teacher might want tp pick one program or material and use it over and over again until mastered before moving on to a different one for generalization. If it's worksheets, ask the teacher to laminate them and send copies home. Then you can use wet erase markers on them.
Good luck.
What materials have you used?
For teaching I use this jar of plastic pieces that I bought at Walmart in the school section. I have the kids start by matching the hour times. They come in digital, face, and word times. I cut some strips of cardboard and put velcro on them and the oppsoite velcro side one the back of the time pieces to provide a place to match them up on. It's then just a matter of memorization.
Does that make sense?
At home we've used books and an occasional computer game. At school I figure they mostly used a teaching clock and worksheets. They don't have access to all the learning material that American schools have, and don't have time to make their own.
We find that an intensive focus on teaching a new skill works better than "a little bit every day (or week)" approach. I think that's what I'll have to push for, along with new methods.
Thanks for your feedback, Becky.
Well, over a year has passed with not much progress. We haven't worked on it much at home, although I did make a book for them on basic clock skills using Cyberchase characters. I don't know how much my older son worked on it at school.
Anyone else have success with this? What was the key to your success?
i can only tell time on a digtail watchHere's a large clock that is easy to set -- good for classroom use.
http://www.oswego.org/ocsd-web/games/ClassClock/clockres.htm l
Teaching tips:
http://www.ehow.com/teaching-clocks/
Prerequisites:
- be able to count to 60.
- be able to read the numbers 1-12.
- able to count by fives.
Milestones according to Child Development institute:
Age 5: Should have simple time concepts: morning, afternoon, night, day, later, after, while, tomorrow, yesterday, today
Age 7: Should be able to tell time to quarter hour
Source: http://www.childdevelopmentinfo.com/development/language_dev elopment.shtml
iPad app:
http://www.pragmaticmom.com/?p=7525
DVD (take a look at the sneak peak)
http://www.rocknlearn.com/html/telling_time.htm
Clock flashcards, with photos of a clock instead of illustrations.
http://www.adaptiveworksheets.com/free/freepdfs/clocks.pdf
Time learning game called "Michael teaches time"
http://www.smartygames.com/igre/time/michaelTeachesTime.html
My son can tell time in hourly basis for ex time between 9:00 to 10:00 is Nine o'clock for him. That is I guess OK for his age level but he does not have the concept of yesterday and tomorrow very clearly.I wish I knew how to instill the concept of time, Kuchan! My son is 13 and he still is having trouble. Your son is still young, so a more sophisticated concept of time might come with maturity. But in some cases (such as my son's) I think it's a complex issue where various autistic problems converge.
- problems with abstract thinking
http://www.aspminds.com/abstractthinking.html
- problems with "executive functions" like planning, organizing and sequencing
http://www.autism-pdd.net/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=24455&am p;PN=30
- problems with motivation - paying attention to time has no personal pay-off for him.
- problems with memory - remembering the order of the weekdays, months and seasons.
- living in the moment and being so focused on what he's doing. He doesn't notice and assign meaning to what happens around him - the clock, tv programs starting and ending, dad coming home, etc. I think it might interfere with getting a feel for the passage of time. Doesn't have an accurate feeling for what takes a short time and what takes a long time.
- problems learning from experience and generalizing - for example, it takes this much time to put my shoes on.
From what I could tell, special educators focus on finding a way to display time that makes it less abstract - using visual supports like clocks/timers, calendars and schedules regularly throughout the day, but also relating time to personal routines and experiences. Here are some examples we use:
- my son has a concept of how long the school week is. So we say a month is four school weeks.
- He also has a concept of how long a tv-program is, so we say an hour is 3 tv-shows (we don't have advertising here so the shows are shorter).
- we have special routines related to some of the days of the week. Monday is swim night. Friday is movie night. Saturday is the traditional candy day here.
In order to learn to tell time by the hour, the child should first be able to:
"Children should be able to count from 1 – 12. They should have had experience with sequencing events, duration of events, and the vocabulary terms "first", "next", "last", "long time", "short time", "before", "after", "same time", "daytime", "nighttime"."
Here are some tips on how to develop those skills: http://www.eduplace.com/math/mathsteps/k/a/k.time.ideas.html
I reorganized the list today, so I thought I'd bump it.