Time Worksheet: Observe Events and Find the Duration!
Children ages 4-6 practice an early concept of time and duration by reading about a series of daily events and calculating how long an activity lasted by adding up time spent. This introduces the idea that time can be measured and combined, a stepping stone toward reading clocks and understanding schedules later on.
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Month 11: Learning & Development | Ages 6-7
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Curriculum
- Time > Telling Time
How to use this worksheet
Look at the first day's events together, reading through the activities and the time listed for each one. Help your child understand that adding the times together tells us the total time spent on an activity, like total play time across the day. Have your child add the times and write the total in the box provided, then repeat the process for each remaining day shown on the page.
Materials needed
- Pencil
- Crayons
Extension activities
- 1Create a simple daily schedule together and track how much time is spent on different activities.
- 2Talk about how long other everyday activities take, like eating breakfast or getting dressed.
- 3Use a timer to measure exactly how long five minutes or ten minutes feels during an activity.
- 4Ask your child to guess how long an activity will take, then time it to see how close their guess was.
Written by
Hemsweta Jain · Teacher Cheena
MBA and Early Childhood Educator, teaching since 2014 · Founder of RaisoActive, Mumbai
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