Learning to tell the time gets easier with this stunning wooden clock from Vilac!

In order to hit such an essential milestone, NeuroToys highly recommends offering children this Wooden Clock with Gears. Robust built of the mechanisms allows kids to manually rotate hour and minute hands. These in turn spin cogwheels, which children can see via visible windows and increase interaction during learning activities. Teaching telling time is not easy. However, children succeed to master such a Montessori clock, if they exercise:

1) playfully, 10 mins, a few times a week;
2) on a regular basis and
3) in a structured manner using task cards or other visual teaching aids.

Consider two learning phases with the wooden clock:

PHASE 1 “Analogue-on-Analogue Practice”. A child has a task card with a visual display of time in an analogue format. The child’s goal is to replicate positioning of the hands onto the teaching clock as pictured. One can start this exercise closer to 5-6 years… and practice it for quite a long time.

PHASE 2 “Digital-on-Analogue Practice”. A child reads numbers (ex. 11:25, 16:05) on a printed task card and shows the right answer on the wooden analogue clock by rotating its hands. Between 8-9 years of age, one can/should introduce a digital format. By the age of 9-10 years, children should be able to differentiate the analogue and digital time-telling versions.

Do not forget to try auditory activities in clock learning games. As an example, tell the time and let the child show the answer on the wooden clock.

Age: 5-10 years
Wooden gear clock includes: 1 clock and task cards
Language: English, German, French, Italian
Dimensions: 26 x 22 x 8 cm