LEARNING TO TELL TIME TO THE QUARTER HOUR

More teaching ideas and printable resources to help you teach the how to tell time  to the quarter hour.

Teaching young children to tell the time correctly takes time, if you'll pardon the play on words... but honestly it does! And lots and lots of practice making time different ways.

By the end of Year 1, the Australian Curriculum tells us children should be able to tell time to the half hour and, then, to the quarter hour (to/past) by the end of Year 2.

You can read this earlier post on how I introduce the concept of time and start teaching time looking at hour time and half hour time to begin with. With this post, I want to focus more on telling time to the quarter hour.

LEARNING TO TELL TIME TO THE QUARTER HOUR - teaching ideas and printable resources to help you teach the how to tell time  to the quarter hour.

LEARNING TO RHYME - DEVELOPING PHONOLOGICAL AWARENESS

Useful teaching ideas and resources to help teach young children hear and produce rhyme from preschool and beyond.

So exactly how important is learning to rhyme?

We know that the ability to hear and produce rhyme is predictive of a child's later reading success but being able to rhyme alone is not enough as young children also need other skills to help the become skilled readers and writers later. 

We know there is continuum for when these skills develop in a child's early years.

So how as parents and teachers should we best support the development of these crucial literacy skills?

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HOW TO MAKE LEARNING ORDINAL NUMBERS FUN

Make learning to read ordinal numbers hands-on fun with these printable ordinal number fly swat card game!

There are many concepts in maths for young children to learning in their Early Years.

Ordinal numbers are used to show the position of an object. Unlike prepositions which might be used to direct - under, over, behind, ordinal numbers are used to order - first, second, third.  

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