Time goes by

Introduction:Introduction:Taking children‘s experience into accountTaking children‘s experience into account (New Year‘S Eve, beginning of new year) (New Year‘S Eve, beginning of new year)

Children should talk about their own life and be introduced into the subject “ Time goes by”.

A mindmap gives some insight into the children’s previous experience

Structure of the unit:

the 4 seasons the months the weeks the days the times

The seasonsThe seasons Pupils bring personal things to school- things

they associate with seasons or months. a “ season table” is put up which can be

completed at any time during the teaching unit.

Across the subject matter is picked up in music lesson.

(songs: Es war eine Mutter..., Jahreszeitenlied)

 

The monthsThe months the names of the months are named

and structured (supported by giving them colours, blue are the winter months, light green are the spring months, yellow are the summer months and red are the autumn months)

pupils reflect on the duration of months (general rule)

The monthsThe months names of the months in pupils’ mother

tongues special days like birthdays, holidays in

Germany and other countries, special events are picked out

the topic is also dealt with in music lessons (song January, February...) and in Art (working together on a calendar of the whole class)

The weekThe week

consolidation of learning results (weekdays)

names of weekdays in other languages structure of the pupils’ book

(Schülerbuch) across the subject in German: poem of

the weekdays, practising the correct spelling, text ‘My favourite weekday’

the topic in Maths: the tables up to 7

The timesThe times course of day and time reading and setting the time (full hour,

half hour, quarter of an hour, three quarters) on analogical and digital clocks

Assessment of the Assessment of the pupilspupils

calendar quizclass calendartests on times and weekdayspupils’ own texts

TargetsTargets

practical targets: pupils’s orientation in textbook and calendar, finding out connections between the individual months and the seasons

intercultural learning: getting to know the holidays in other countries, the weekdays and months in other languages

Maths: pupils get to know the clock and the tables up to 7

TargetsTargets German: pupils write down own texts so

that they can be understood by others, they read and present poems and control the spelling of the weekdays

Art: making a calendar of the whole class (collages of pupils’ own pictures, cut-out pictures and photos from their own environment, such as nature, animals, plants and the weather)

Music: pupils learn new songs on the seasons and the months