Time For Telling Time… and Puzzles…

I sat down with the kids on Monday to play ‘telling time.’  Lala has started asking pretty regularly, ‘What time is it?’  A while back I ordered a Melissa and Doug Shape Sorter Clock and decided to get it out.  It was a hit with both kids!

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Tbear loved pulling all the blocks out and mixing them up…  I showed Lala the ‘digital clock’ on my phone and the app that will switch between ‘digital’ and ‘analog’…  We talked about 24 hours in a day, 60 minutes in an hour, and 60 seconds in a minute (because there was a second hand on the smart phone clock…)  I showed her how the hour and minute hands work and we discussed how you have to go all the way around the clock with the hour hand twice to measure time for a whole day…

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Needless to say, that was a lot of information for a four year old…  She thought it was fun to ‘set’ the clock and have me tell her the time.

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I really like this clock as a learning tool.  (Affiliate link – If you use this link to make any purchases, we will receive a small commission.  For more information, please see our Legal Stuff page.)  (All links in this post will open in a new tab.)

I also found a lot of online clock games.  We’ll look at those in the future…  I think kids aren’t taught to tell time in school until first grade or later…  I’ll follow Lala’s lead….

We played with the clock for a while and then Lala wanted to do a puzzle…  This book and puzzle set was a birthday present earlier this year.

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After reading the book, we put the puzzle together.

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It is really a challenge to put together a puzzle with the help of a two year old…  😉

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The finished product!

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The kids wanted to do some more puzzles, so we got out a couple others…
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I love our stacking block tower from Melissa and Doug…

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Tbear kept knocking the stack over as quickly as I could build it….  not letting me get a picture…  😉

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After knocking the tower down a few times, Tbear started trying to stack it back up himself…  I find it fascinating to ‘watch’ my kids’ minds work!

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We have a lot of fun with these stacking boxes! (Affiliate link)

The only thing I didn’t consider is that occasionally the kids try to stomp them… We have had to repair a couple of them… I should have gotten these wooden ones… (Affiliate link)

Lala put together a whole bunch of little puzzles.

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It looks like this puzzle set has been discontinued…  I actually got it at the JBF Sale last year.

I am so tempted to get this for the kids…  (Affiliate link)

Learning about telling time, turned into a fun puzzle and block building time…  And then it was time for Tbear’s nap…  🙂

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