Time · talk for a minute (30 seconds for younger pupils) without repeating any words (apart from the topic title), hesitation or deviation (going off the point completed. •Play

Time

How long will it take you to:

• Write the alphabet?

• Jump 5 times?

• Read a page of your book?

• Draw a flower?

• Run round the playground twice?

• Complete a jigsaw?

Time Games

Speed Spell

How many words can you write in: 20 seconds? 30 seconds?

Make a ‘leader chart’ and record pupils names

The game could be played as teams.

Time Games

Tag Spell

Set a time limit

Put pupils in team pairs

They think of a team name

Ask pairs to spell alternate words from a list of words

Time Games

Speed Spell

How many words can you write in: 20 seconds? 30 seconds? (make a leader chart and record pupils names) Could be played as teams.

Time Games

Say when

• Ask pupils to time a minute/ 30 seconds without looking at a clock or watch.

• Consider strategies – counting in head, tapping quietly in time etc.

• Who is the closest to the target time?

• Who was close?

The hourglass shovellerHow did he come to be inside the hourglass?Why does he shovel the sand through the timer?How long does it take him?Does he ever get a rest?How can he escape?

Time challenges

• How many words can you write in: 20 seconds?

• Just a Minute – think of a subject that you are interested in. Try to talk for a minute (30 seconds for younger pupils) without repeating any words (apart from the topic title), hesitation or deviation (going off the point completed.

• Play it in small groups (1 speaker, 1 timer/judge, others –listeners/challenges).

• If the speaker repeats a word, hesitates or deviates from the subject the listeners can challenge. They get 1 point for a correct challenge and take over the speaking

Time for a story

Take time out to read or listen to a story!

Some stories for older pupils

• The Invention of Hugo Cabret –Brian Selznik (Hugo)

• Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll (the White Rabbit)

• The Phantom Tollbooth - (Tock the dog)

Make a sand or water timer

• Using recycled materials (cartons, boxes, cups, pipes/ straws, funnels) make a sand time.

• How will it show how much time has passed?

• How can it be made more accurate?

• Draw plan of your sand timer

Timer challenge

• In groups, who can make the most accurate timer?

• Use a variety of materials to create the most accurate timer

What’s the story?

The Time Machine

• Chose a vehicle and tell the story of how it can transport you through time (backwards or forwards).

• Where will it take you?

The Time Machine

• Chose a vehicle and tell the story of how it can transport you through time (backwards or forwards).

• Where will it take you?

What’s the story?

Ask I looked more closely I saw a tiny figure dressed entirely in scarlet, open a red paper parasol and walk through the falling sand.

The Time Machine – finish the story

Through the darkness, my torchlight fell on the strangest metallic object I had ever seen. As I approached, it began to make a humming and ticking sound…

Story time

• Tell the story of ‘The Telford Time Machine’

• What happens to the frog at night when the shopping centre closes?

• How did the frog end up as part of the time machine? (witch / spell / curse)

• Is the frog really a prince or princess?

• How can the spell be broken?

Story time - performance

• Tell the story orally.

• (make a plan if necessary)

• Use musical instruments to enhance the telling (wood block -ticking of the clock)

Music timeCreate a piece of music to accompany the movements of ‘The Telford Time Machine’

Design and make a clock face

• Think of character from a story or real life

• Design a clock face for a clock for them

Design and make a watch face

•Design an amazing watch with special features for a real or fictional character

•Will it be analogue or digital?

Famous Clock

•Research into famous clocks around the world

• Some examples are shown here, but where are they?

Domino number bonds

• Choose a domino, add the spots. How quickly can you do it?

• How quickly can you find all the dominoes that add to 10? 9?

• How quickly can you order the dominoes from double 6 to double blank?

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How quickly can you multiply all the numbers on the left by 6? 9?

Other ideas

• Put on a puppet show with start and finish times

• Build lego characters and make up a 5 minute story

• Make a diary for the week