Time - Years, Months, Weeks, Days - Planning

The Year 4 curriculum for Summer Term's second week focuses on the concept of time, specifically understanding and converting years, months, weeks, and days. The National Curriculum objectives aim to enhance students' ability to read, write, and convert time between analogue and digital formats, both in 12-hour and 24-hour clocks. Additionally, students tackle problems that involve conversions between different time units such as hours to minutes, minutes to seconds, and years to months. The key vocabulary for this unit includes terms like measure, unit of time, convert, minute, second, hour, equivalent, times table, day, week, month, year, interval, analogue, digital, AM, and PM.

The lesson plan includes a variety of resources such as calendars, bar-models, conversion tables, worksheets, and presentations to support learning. Students begin with a starter activity that revisits the months of the year and the number of days in each, using knuckles as a mnemonic device. They then engage in practical activities, like using an annual calendar to answer questions and employing bar models to visualize the number of days in a week. Further activities require students to convert between years and months, with the option of using a conversion table for assistance. The lesson concludes with differentiated worksheets and a plenary where students reflect on their learning, discussing what they've understood about converting units of time, the skills they've used, and any challenges they faced. To ensure a deep understanding of time conversion, the lesson addresses common misconceptions regarding equivalence and conversion of different time measurements.