Most children's 'speed' of learning 'gear(ed)' towards a 'fraction' of their developmental milestones ahead of 'time'.Time concept became the main focus over the past 3 weeks after I've noticed that most of the children are more than capable to tell the time in minutes per the position of the hands of the clock(eg. 9:45am).Hence, the curriculum objectives were modified to scaffold their understanding of time meaningfully.
To eliminate some misconceptions/ mindset of 1 hour equates to the minute hand pointing to 12 has been a big challenge.Visual & spatial intelligences are the 2 fundamentals that I have started off with. Children did many drawings of circle and assigned 1 to 12 around it representing the clock. This trains observation or spatial awareness. We worked a lot on gears and analysed how many small turns make 1 big turn & vice versa..
Therefore, having them hands-on and work on problem solving are the major activities I have used to eradicate their misconception and to understand how the facts are established rather than just remembering it.
Mom & Dad, happy reinforcing at home but please make it as part of real-life application. Eg.let your child tell you the time he leaves home for school, then let him know how long he takes to arrive in school. Thereafter, let him tell the time he arrives at school. Estimation is alright/safe but make it consistent with explanation.
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