Help teaching 5y.o to tell the time? digital or analogue or both? Any DVD's on it?

[meow]

Perhaps in the meantime while he's learning (no help there sorry) your visual chart could be broken into 10 min timer "tasks". So 10 mins dressing, 10 mins eating etc. Maybe teaching him to watch the timer and hurry at the task then move to the next one would help?

[Beach Mama]

I agree with Meow - setting out a timetable with the hour that things occur might be the way to go to help in the meantime while you work on clock reading skills. You could even draw a clock with the time and then an associated picture/photo to go with it so he can match it up to a real clock ITMS.

I would be teaching both digital and analogue, that is what we do at schools, kids need to know how to read both, including 24 hour time. Thing with time is, it's a really weird mathematical concept, the way it can be broken into 60, 12, 5's, 10s, etc. there are a huge amounts of elements involved. You can get clocks that have the TO and PAST on the them and trying somewhere like Windmill Educational may help if you need other resources as well. I know from teaching grade 5/6s for quite a number of years a few years ago, that a lot of kids even at that age struggled with some concepts.

Good luck hun xoxox

[RhiChiChi]

I agree with Meow - setting out a timetable with the hour that things occur might be the way to go to help in the meantime while you work on clock reading skills. You could even draw a clock with the time and then an associated picture/photo to go with it so he can match it up to a real clock ITMS.

I love this suggestion - b/c it is visual and then your DS can compare to a 'real' clock.

There is a clock that I got DD from a kids party plan type thing - I think it is a 'Doug & Melissa's' clock - you can move the hands etc... I'll check when I get home tonight (I'm at work tonight).

[zilly]

give him some "tick tock" biscuits. The ones with fluro icing and the clock on the back... if he gets the right time... he gets rewarded with a biscuit. You can even go through the biscuits to start with the o'clock ones