Telling the Time - Making Clocks!

Pitau 2 have been taking out some more time to explore clocks. 

We have learned the names for the parts that make up a clock and we have been practising making clocks with materials before we attempt to create our very own paper clocks.

Our clock is like a beading clock and it is made of beads. They show the circle on the outside of a clock. The pink straps are the hands and we made a game out of our clock.
Olivia.S

We used paper and beads to make a clock. I used the paper for the hands in the middle.Then I used the beads to go between the numbers.
Kaitlyn

We used some blu tack to put the numbers on the table. I helped to write the numbers of the clock on card.
Blake

We used paper for the hands and the numbers and we used equipment for the little spaces and we drew numbers on the paper so we put them in the right place and in order.
Tewai

Our clock is a wonky clock. The straps go around to the numbers. There is buttons in between it.
Savanna

Me and Zoe we put little blocks all around the table and the four blocks are where the hands go to.
Hanlin

I made a Big Ben clock. It has two hands on it. They have cubes for the numbers. The hands go round and round.
Brody

My clock was a mini clock because it is small. The hands go one way. They never stop.
Liam

Telling time in Pitau 2 - A Human Clock!

What better way to explore clocks than to make a human clock!

But wait...

What do Pitau 2 know about clocks?

These are some of their ideas about clocks...

"Something that ticks," said Savanna

"It goes around and around and it never stops," said Hanlin

"The biggest number on the clock is 12," said Olivia

"Sometimes it has lines on it," said Isabelle

"Some of the numbers on the clock get big," said Emma

 Then we took our ideas about clocks outside to create a human clock.

Students were given the numbers on a clock and began to arrange them onto our clock.

We discovered that the numbers 12, 6, 3, and 9 are opposite one another on a clock.

It was great to see our clock slowly coming together.

We did it!

Finally we showed a variety of times using skipping ropes that
represented the arms on a clock. 

Telling Time in Pitau 2 - Which takes longer?

Pitau 2 have begun their exploration into the world of time with some crazy challenges that are helping us to develop our understandings about the duration of time. 

Challenge #1 - Tama takes on Harriet in 'Stacking Blocks versus hopping on one foot ten times'

Challenge #2 - Keeahn takes on Pixie in 'Stacking blocks versus hopping on one foot ten times'

Challenge #3 - Olivia.S takes on Briana in 'Counting to 50 versus running around the classroom'