Let’s tell the time

#TheCompleteSeries5lessons

Containing everything you need to teach this KS1 scheme, including lesson plans, slide presentations, differentiated activities and a variety of engaging printable resources, this ‘Let’s tell the time’ scheme is a great way to engage your class in time learning.

#Lesson1DaysoftheWeek

Children will start this scheme off by recapping the days of the week and identifying days that are missing from a set. They will use time language, such as before and after, to identify when different events took place during a week, as well as learning to order the days of the week correctly.

#Lesson2MonthsoftheYear

Children will identify a year as being split into twelve months in this lesson. They will learn to identify the twelve months and order them correctly, as well as identifying which months are associated with which season. They will use time language to describe when events happened and to order months correctly.

#Lesson3CalendarEvents

Now that your children are familiar with the days of the week and months of the year, they can use their knowledge to read calendars and order calendar events, including familiar events that happen every year, including their birthdays! They will also use time connectives to describe sequences of events, such as first, next, then, after that, etc.

#Lesson4Clocks

Children will explore clocks in this lesson and identify what clocks are used for. They will be given the chance to become more familiar with clock faces, identifying the different features. They will then practise reading the time on a clock to the hour, e.g. five o’clock before making their own clocks to read various o’clock times.

#Lesson5OClockEvents

In this final lesson, children will recap how to tell the time to the hour. They will then learn how there are two rotations of the hour hand each day, giving e.g. a four o’clock in the morning and in the afternoon. They will consider which activities they might be doing at different times of the day and learn to order events by time.

Free Overview (Medium-Term Plan)

Download a free overview to support your teaching of this scheme of work.

Free Assessment Grid

Download a free, editable assessment grid to support your teaching of this scheme of work.

Curriculum Objectives covered

• Year 1 - sequence events in chronological order using language
• Year 1 - recognise and use language relating to dates, including days of the week, weeks, months and years
• Year 1 - tell the time to the hour and half past the hour and draw the hands on a clock face to show these times