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Unit 9:Hour, months of the year and days of each month
9.1 Reading and Telling Time shown by a clock face
(a) Reading exact time: An hour o’clock
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I have leant that:
(a) A clock face has two or three handsHour hand: It is the short hand of the clock, It tells time in hours. If it rotates once round the clock face, then the time taken is 12 hours
Minute hand: The long hand of the clock, it tells time in minutes. One full rotation equals 60 minutes
Second hand: The thinnest hand of the clock. it rotates the fastest. Its full rotation equals 60 seconds •
In the clock face we have:
- Numbers from 1 to 12;
- From one number to another there is 1 hour.
(b) Digital watch with numbers and a colon:
- The first number before the colon indicates hours;
- The number after the colon indicates minutes
- One hour is equivalent to 60minutes
- One day is equivalent to 24hours.
(c) A day
- A whole day has 2 main parts:
- A whole day has 2 main parts: Day and night
- Every part has 12 hours.
- The first part is divided in two: Before noon (morning) and after noon.
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Reading and telling the time
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I have learnt that:
On the watch with hands: When the hour hand reaches a number and the minute hand reaches the number 12,
it is a complete hour. Read the number followed by o’clock.
On the watch with numbers and a colon: When the first number is followed by two zeros after the colon,
it is a complete hour. Example: 7: 00 it is 7 o’clock.
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b) Half past an hour
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I have leant that:
On the watch with hands: When the hour hand reaches the point half of the interval between two numbers and
the minute hand reaches the number 6, it is a half hour. Read “a half past ….(the previous number)”.
On the watch with numbers and a colon: When the first number is followed by 30 after the colon,
it is that hour past 30 or a half past that hour. Example: 9:30; it is “a half past nine”.
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9.2 The Calendar
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Questions:
a) How many days make a week?
b) What is the first day of the week?
c) What is the last day of the week?
d) How many working days does a week have?
e) How many weekend days does a week have?
I have learnt that:
7 days make a week.
The week starts at the first day (Sunday), it ends at the seventh day (Saturday).
1. How many days do you come to school in a week?
2. When do you go to the church with your family members?
3. On which day of the week do we do marriage parties?
4. Why do we have working days and weekend days?
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Questions:
(a) How many months are in a year?
(b) Do all months have the same number of days?
(c) List down of months which have 30 days.
(d) Which month the year has fewer days?
(e) How many weeks are in a month?
(f) How many weeks are in a year?
I have learnt that:
One year has 12 months.
- The second month “February” is the month with few
days. It has 28 or 29 days.
-One month has 4 weeks.
- One year has 52 weeks;
- A common year has 365 days. When the month of
February has 29 days, the year has 366 days.
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9.3 Schools’ activities and timetable
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I have learnt that:
An example of a time table showing school activities.
9.4 Preparing a weekly activity plan
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I have learnt that:
- The weekly plan helps us to meet the deadline.
We decide to:
- To respect the timetable;
- Avoid being late at school;
- Meet the existing timeline for activities.
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1. What is the time?
2. Complete the following sentence correctly
3. Write down a list of months with:
a) 31days b) 30 days.
END UNIT ASSESSMENT 9
1. Complete
2. Draw
(a) A clock face with hands showing “ten o’clock”.
(b) A clock face with hands showing “one o’clock”.
3. Complete the table below
