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Year 1
Use language relating to days, weeks, months and years
I can use weeks, months and years to describe events.
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Year 1
Use language relating to days, weeks, months and years
I can use weeks, months and years to describe events.
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Lesson details
Key learning points
- We can describe how long things take in weeks, months and years.
Keywords
Week - A time period of 7 days.
Month - One of the twelve parts of the year.
Year - A time period of twelve months.
Common misconception
Pupils may think a week always starts on a Sunday, and a year always starts in January.
Having these displayed in your environment in a circular formation (as in the slide deck) will help to reinforce the idea that a week is any seven days in sequence and a year is any twelve months in sequence. Practise reciting using the cycles.
Adapt the content of the lesson to make it more relevant to your own setting. For example, special events in your own class or school calendar and religious holidays celebrated by the pupils in your class.
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Lesson video
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Starter quiz
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6 Questions
Q1.
Which of these are weekend days?
Monday
Q2.
Match the sentence to the correct number.
7
4
12
Q3.
What is the missing day? Saturday, ___, Monday
Friday
Q4.
What is the missing month? June, ___, August
May
Q5.
True or false: A week is longer than a month.
True
Q6.
The new year starts in January. Does November come before or after March?
before
Exit quiz
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6 Questions
Q1.
Which of these things could you do in one day?
Grow a flower.
Q2.
Order these periods of time from shortest to longest.
Q3.
Jun's birthday is in January. Jacob's birthday is in November. What would be the best way to count the time between Jun's birthday and Jacob's birthday?
days
weeks
Q4.
True or false? When counting a full week, I could start from a Wednesday.
false
Q5.
True or false? When counting a full year, I could start from August.
false
Q6.
If a year starts in March, what is the final full month of the year?
April
March