Learning Path
Exploring Time with infant classes Learning Path
By PDST
This learning path, suitable for infant classes, supports the development of understanding the concept of time and appropriate vocabulary of time through a series of challenges, tasks and activities. This is reinforced through exploration of time by sequencing events of the story of The Very Hungry Caterpillar.
3 resources in this Learning Path
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Sequencing Times of Day
https://nrich.maths.org/6609 Added: 24 Mar 2020 Contributor: PDST Resource type: Game / Guide/notes / Lesson PlanThis activity is a good way to familiarise children with vocabulary associated with the passing of time. It will lend itself to quality pupil-pupil and pupil-teacher talk as learners justify their ideas to someone else.
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- Mathematics
Strand: Measures
Strand unit: Time
Content objective: This resource should enable a child to:
- develop an understanding of the concept of time through the use of appropriate vocabulary
- sequence daily and weekly events or stages in a story
Suggestions for use: Sequencing activity
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Eric Carle reads The Very Hungry Caterpillar
https://www.smore.com/z78v-eric-car...ce=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer Added: 21 Jul 2015 Contributor: Yvonne Whelan Resource type: Audio / VideoThis website has several stories available to view including The Very Hungry Caterpillar, The Grouchy Ladybird and The Tiny Seed.
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- SESE Science
Strand: Living Things
Strand unit: Plants and Animals
Content objective: This resource should enable a child to:
- become aware of animals and plants of other environments
- become aware that animals and plants undergo seasonal change in appearance or behaviour
- observe growth and change in some living things
Suggestions for use: The life cycle of the butterfly.
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The Very Hungry Caterpillar Quiz
http://www.goodreads.com/quizzes/57...ry-hungry-caterpillar-by-eric-carle Added: 21 Jul 2016 Contributor: Róisín McMahon Resource type: AssessmentQuiz based on the story The Very Hungry Caterpillar
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- English
Strand: Useful Websites
