Effective Preschool Math Activities
Time Activities

Activity 1: Telling Time
The telling time activity for preschool children will teach the pupil to place themselves in time, to organize their time, and to read the clock, in order to tell time.

Materials:

1. telling-time-from-breakfast-to-bedtime
2. Chart, indicating Morning, Midday, and Evening Activities.
3. Calendar.
4. Clock.
5. Cardboard.
6. Triangular Shaped Profile Coloring Pencils. (Ideal for improving the young child's pencil grip.)
7. Old Magazines.
8. Scissors and Glue.

Procedure:

• The teacher will teach the children to organize their day according to time.

• They will follow the chart indicating morning, midday and evening activities, and the sequence of events.
• You wake in the morning, you get dressed, you brush your teeth, wash and have breakfast. Then you go to school.
• During the afternoon you have lunch, do your homework, and play.
• In the evenings you have supper, take a bath and go to bed early.
• The teacher will use a calendar to indicate the twelve months of the year, from beginning to the end.
• The teacher should then use the clock to teach the children the twelve hours in a day.



• The teacher should use the clock to demonstrate the activities which occur during those hours, for instance, at six o'clock we wake, and we wash ourselves. Seven o'clock we have breakfast, at eight o'clock we go to school.
• The teacher should assist the children with their time chart. The children should trace a big circle on their cardboard, and devide the circle into three equal parts.
• They should indicate morning activities in the first third, afternoon activities in the second third, and evening activities in the last third.
• The children could decide to draw pictures and color them, or cut out pictures from the magazines, and stick them in the spaces provided.
• The children will learn the song and sing it together.

Song: Here we go round the Mulberry Bush:

1. Here we go 'round the mul'bry bush, the mul'bry bush, the mul'bry bush. Here we go 'round the mul'bry bush, the mul'bry bush, the mul'bry bush, on a cold and frosty morning.
2. This is the way we wash our hands......
3. This is the way we wash our clothes ......
4. This is the way we dry our clothes .......
5. This is the way we iron our clothes ......
6. This is the way we sweep the floor .......
7. This is the way we brush our hair ........
8. This is the way we go to school ..........
9. This is the way we come back from school .......