Use language relating to days, weeks, months and years
Lesson details
Learning outcome
I can use weeks, months and years to describe events.
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.
Teacher tip
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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Prior knowledge starter quiz
6 Questions
Q1.Which of these are weekend days?
Q2.Match the sentence to the correct number.
7
4
12
Q3.What is the missing day? Saturday, ___, Monday
Q4.What is the missing month? June, ___, August
Q5.True or false: A week is longer than a month.
Q6.The new year starts in January. Does November come before or after March?
Assessment exit quiz
6 Questions
Q1.Which of these things could you do in one day?
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?
Q4.True or false? When counting a full week, I could start from a Wednesday.
Q5.True or false? When counting a full year, I could start from August.
Q6.If a year starts in March, what is the final full month of the year?
To help you plan your 1 maths lesson on: Use language relating to days, weeks, months and years, download all teaching resources for free and adapt to suit your pupils' needs...
To help you plan your 1 maths lesson on: Use language relating to days, weeks, months and years, download all teaching resources for free and adapt to suit your pupils' needs.
The starter quiz will activate and check your pupils' prior knowledge, with versions available both with and without answers in PDF format.
We use learning cycles to break down learning into key concepts or ideas linked to the learning outcome. Each learning cycle features explanations with checks for understanding and practice tasks with feedback. All of this is found in our slide decks, ready for you to download and edit. The practice tasks are also available as printable worksheets and some lessons have additional materials with extra material you might need for teaching the lesson.
The assessment exit quiz will test your pupils' understanding of the key learning points.
Our video is a tool for planning, showing how other teachers might teach the lesson, offering helpful tips, modelled explanations and inspiration for your own delivery in the classroom. Plus, you can set it as homework or revision for pupils and keep their learning on track by sharing an online pupil version of this lesson.
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