Time Children should understand and be able to use the following vocabulary: Sunday to Saturday, January to December, Spring to Winter. Day, week, fortnight, month, season, year, leap year, century, millennium, morning, afternoon, evening, night, midnight, noon, hour, minute, second, today, yesterday, tomorrow, weekend, a.m., p.m., how long ago, how long will it be to, arrive, depart, faster, fastest, slower, slowest, takes less time, earliest, latest. Children should know the main units of time and how they relate to other units: 1 millennium   = 1 000 years 1 century      = 100 years 1 year         = 12 months or 52 weeks 1 week         = 7 days 1 day          = 24 hours 1 hour         = 60 minutes 1 minute       = 60 seconds They should know and be able to apply the rhyme: 30 days hath September April, June and November. All the rest have 31, Except February alone, Which has but 28 days clear And 29 in each leap year. Or an alternative way of knowing the number of days in each month. They should know their own date of birth. Children should be able to suggest suitable units to measure everyday events such as seconds to measure the time for ten breaths. They should be able to choose a suitable timing device such as a stop watch for timing the boiling of an egg. They should then be able to take simple measurements of a range of times. They should be able to give a reasonable estimate of times. Children should be able to read an analogue clock (the type with the older clock face) to the nearest minute and read a digital clock. They should understand that the following are equivalent: 6:34 34 minutes past 6 26 minutes to 7 Children should understand and be able to use a.m. and p.m. They should be able to read a calendar and perform simple calculations from it, such as work out how many days between two close dates. They should be able to read a simple timetable such as a bus or train timetable and a TV guide and work out simple problems involving these. Go to Year 4 Time Concepts