When you know how to tell time, you can take for granted how difficult looking at an analog clock for the first time can be.
To make it easier for kids to learn how to tell time, we've designed our Learning Clock for Kids to be a visual tool with simple visual cues to help them remember what the different things on the clock mean.
How to help Kids Learn to Tell Time:
Hours are marked with unique color blocks: Each hour is one unique color on the face of the clock. For example: The 1 'o' clock hour is a dark orange color. When the hour hand is moving during the 1 'o' clock hour, it will remain inside of the orange block. So kids can easily see that as long as the hour hand is inside the same color, it's still the same hour.
The hour blocks are broken up with little white divisions which show exactly when the hour changes to the next. From 1 to 2 or 2 to 3, etc.
We also chose to help make the hour, minute and second hands visual aids to telling time as well.
When you look at the clock face, the hour hand is labeled and is black. Just like all of the hour numbers. So if a kid looks at the clock and sees the black hour hand, you can ask them to look for the black hour numbers to tell what time it is.
Similarly, the minute and second hand are blue and go with the ring of blue numbers on the outside of the clock. So a kid can see that the minute or second hand is moving and look for the blue number on the outside of the clock to tell what minute or second it is.
For some kids, it is important to learn our shorthand parts of telling time with the quarter hours labeled " O'clock, quarter past, half past and quarter to." We also labeled these in blue, because it is the minute hand that tells us which quarter we are talking about.
Do you have any questions or comments you'd like heard? Send us an email at contact@davincisroom.com and we'll do our best to help you.
To make it easier for kids to learn how to tell time, we've designed our Learning Clock for Kids to be a visual tool with simple visual cues to help them remember what the different things on the clock mean.
How to help Kids Learn to Tell Time:
Hours are marked with unique color blocks: Each hour is one unique color on the face of the clock. For example: The 1 'o' clock hour is a dark orange color. When the hour hand is moving during the 1 'o' clock hour, it will remain inside of the orange block. So kids can easily see that as long as the hour hand is inside the same color, it's still the same hour.
The hour blocks are broken up with little white divisions which show exactly when the hour changes to the next. From 1 to 2 or 2 to 3, etc.
We also chose to help make the hour, minute and second hands visual aids to telling time as well.
When you look at the clock face, the hour hand is labeled and is black. Just like all of the hour numbers. So if a kid looks at the clock and sees the black hour hand, you can ask them to look for the black hour numbers to tell what time it is.
Similarly, the minute and second hand are blue and go with the ring of blue numbers on the outside of the clock. So a kid can see that the minute or second hand is moving and look for the blue number on the outside of the clock to tell what minute or second it is.
For some kids, it is important to learn our shorthand parts of telling time with the quarter hours labeled " O'clock, quarter past, half past and quarter to." We also labeled these in blue, because it is the minute hand that tells us which quarter we are talking about.
Do you have any questions or comments you'd like heard? Send us an email at contact@davincisroom.com and we'll do our best to help you.