Lesson video

Hi there, my name is Mr. Tilstone.

I'm a teacher and I'm excited to be with you today for a lesson on my favourite subject which is maths.

Today's lesson is all about time which is a very important concept.

So if you're ready, let's begin.

The outcome of today's lesson is I can use weeks, months, and years to describe events.

Our keywords today.

My turn, week.

Your turn.

My turn, month.

Your turn.

And my turn, year.

Your turn.

We're going to use those words a lot today, so you'll be an expert at using them by the end of the lesson.

Our lesson today is split into two cycles so two parts.

The first will be choose appropriate units of time, and the second will be units of time can be measured from any point.

So if you are ready, let's begin with choose appropriate units of time.

In this lesson, you're going to meet Aisha, Izzy, and Alex.

Have you met them before? They're going to be here with us today to give us a helping hand.

A day is quite a short amount of time.

In one day, Izzy could have breakfast, she could go to school, have dinner, and go to bed.

That could be a day for her.

That could be a weekday, a school day.

She could do different things.

Maybe at the weekend she could have breakfast, go to the zoo, have dinner, have a bath, and go to bed.

So they're the kinds of things that you could do in the space of one day.

What sorts of things could you do in one day? Now a week is longer than a day.

A week is made of seven days and you might have known that already.

A week is made of seven days.

Here are those days.

Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday.

That's the order that they go in.

Izzy goes to school from Monday to Friday and has the weekend off school.

And that's a complete week.

So your school days are usually Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday.

And Saturday and Sunday you have off school.

Izzy sometimes has a half term break from school that lasts for a week.

And that's probably the case with you as well.

You have a half term.

Izzy could go on holiday for a week.

Have you been on holiday? Have you been on holiday for a week, do you think? Now a month is made up of four weeks or about four weeks.

So that's one week, two weeks, three weeks, four weeks.

So that's a month.

So a month is longer than a week.

Now a year is made up of 12 of those months.

So a year is quite a long amount of time.

So the months have different numbers of days in them, but about 30.

Sometimes a bit more, sometimes a bit less.

And the months are, January.

See if you can remember these by the way before they come up.

February.

What's next? March.

What's next? April.

What's next? May.

What's next? June.

What's next? July.

What's next? August.

What's next? September.

What's next? October.

What's next? November.

What's next? December.

So they're the months.

Shall we say them together? Read them with me.

January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December.

Let's do a quick check.

Order these periods of time from the shortest to the longest.

So you've got month, day, year, and week, and they're all jumbled up.

So start with the shortest period of time.

Pause the video.

Let's have a look then.

So the shortest amount of time out of those four options is a day.

And then what after that, what's after a day? What's longer than a day? A week.

What's longer than a week? A month.

What's longer than a month? A year.

Let's look at some of the things that we can measure using days, weeks, months, or years.

Izzy is remembering back to when her class grew cress in Reception.

Is that something you might have done before? Have you got any memories of growing cress before? She remembers cress fully growing in less than one school week.

It grows quite quickly.

Sometimes it only takes a couple of days, but it definitely takes less than a week.

The length of time is quite short and will be best measured in days.

So the amount of time it takes cress to grow will be best measured in days.

It will make less sense to talk about how many years, months, or weeks that cress took to grow because they're too long.

Those periods of time are too long, it's a sure thing.

Okay, Jun's birthday is in January.

Andeep's birthday is in June.

There is, wouldn't you agree, quite a long gap between their birthdays? It's a really long time between their birthdays.

So it would be a good idea to describe this gap in months.

It wouldn't be a good idea to measure it in days, there are too many.

It wouldn't be really a good idea to measure it in weeks, there are too many.

But we could measure it in months.

We could count it in months.

It's one, two, three, four, five.

Five months between them.

Jacob's birthday is in November.

Ad Sam's birthday is in December.

What do you notice about their birthdays? Are they far apart? No, they're not, are they? They're quite close together.

There's quite a small gap between their birthdays.

So it would be a good idea to describe this gap in weeks or days.

Months will be too big.

Okay, over to you for some practise.

Match the event with the unit of time you think best describes it.

So we've got three different events.

Time we will be at primary school, time a school holiday lasts for, and time until the weekend arrives.

And your options are days, weeks or months, and years.

So join them together using a line.

Pause the video and good luck.

Welcome back.

How did you get on with that? If you were working with a partner, did you get the same answer? Did you manage to agree? Let's have a look.

So the time that we will be at primary school, that lasts for years.

That's quite a long time.

That's about six years, so it's quite a long time.

But if we measured that in days, that'll be too many to count.

And if we measured it in months, that would be too many to count.

So years is a perfect unit of time to measure that.

Time of school holiday lasts for, you could say weeks or months, depending on the school holiday really.

The summer holidays for example, they last for about five weeks.

So you could describe those in weeks or you could say it's just over a month.

And then time until the weekend arrives, that's days.

So you can say, for example, it's three days until the weekend.

We wouldn't use weeks or months or years to measure that.

So well done if you've got those right.

You're doing really well so far.

Are you ready for cycle two? That's units of time can be measured from any point.

A full week is made of seven days.

Sunday.

See if you can predict what's going to come next.

Monday.

What's next? Tuesday.

What's next? Wednesday.

What's next? Thursday.

What's next? Friday.

And last of all, what's next? Saturday.

So they are the days in order.

Shall we read them together? Let's go.

Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday.

But those seven days can start at any day.

Izzy is going on holiday for a week and her holiday starts on Wednesday.

So remember her holiday lasts for a week, but doesn't start on Sunday.

It starts on Wednesday.

So let's see the days that she will be on holiday for.

So she's there on Wednesday that's the start, but what's the next day going to be? Thursday, and then Friday, and then Saturday, and then Sunday, and then Monday and then Tuesday.

So Izzy's on holiday for a week.

And those are the days, starting with Wednesday ending on Tuesday.

That is a week.

Let's do a quick check.

What are the days of a week that starts with Friday? Hmm.

Pause the video, have a go.

Did you manage to get that one? Let's have a look.

So if there's a week that starts with Friday so let's say you go on holiday for a week and your first day's Friday, what are those days in order? Well it goes Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday.

That is seven days.

That is a week.

The days continue repeating.

You don't stop with the days, you keep going on and on and on.

So they can be shown like this on a circle or a cycle.

So we could start with Sunday, that could be at any point in the circle or cycle, but Sunday.

And then what's next? Monday.

It's just like before a little bit in the circle.

And then Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday.

A full week is seven days.

And when we get to Saturday, we keep going back around Sunday, Monday.

That just keeps going on and on like a wheel.

So Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, and then back to Monday.

After Saturday, it's Sunday again.

Remember, we can start our week at any day.

So a week is seven days and that can be starting at any day.

So here is Izzy's holiday again.

So remember she went on a holiday, but it lasts for a week and starts on Wednesday.

So let's look at that again on a circle.

So this is her first day.

Look, this is Wednesday.

And then she's going to be there for one week.

So it's going to go around a complete circle.

Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday.

And then she'd come home again and be home for Wednesday.

So that is a week.

Now a whole year can also start at any month.

So for example, it could start with April.

So a year is 12 months starting from any point.

So April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December, January, February, and March.

So that is 12 months.

That is a year starting with April.

So any 12 month period at all is a year, starting with any month and finishing back with that same month.

So let's say the months of a year starting with April.

So a year that starts in April.

Are we ready? Let's say it together.

So April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December, January, February, March, April.

So that is a full year that starts with April.

That is 12 months starting with April.

12 months have passed or one year has passed.

So Izzy's birthday is in March.

So here's Izzy's birthday March.

And then it goes April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December.

What's after December, this is a tricky one.

January, well done.

And then after January is February.

So that's a full year starting with her birthday.

A whole year has now passed since Izzy's birthday.

And then she'll be ready for a new birthday.

So Izzy was born in March.

That's her birthday in March.

Do you know anybody who's got a birthday in March? Well, Izzy has.

So her birthday is in March.

My daughter's birthday's in March too.

For her first year she was a baby.

The next March she turned one.

It was her first birthday.

That year she was a toddler and started learning to walk and talk just like you did when you turned one.

The next March she turned two.

It was her second birthday.

That year she was still a toddler and she was getting better at walking and talking.

So by the end of that year, she's had three years.

The next March she'd turned three.

It was her third birthday.

And that year she started nursery.

Can you remember starting nursery? And then the next March, she'd turned four.

It was her fourth birthday.

That year she started Reception at Oak Academy.

Can you remember starting in Reception, or you might call it Foundation 2 or F2.

Can you remember that too? So by the end of that year, she's had five years.

She's been alive for five years.

After February, it will be March again, and Izzy will turn five.

It will be her fifth birthday.

So we could say that the time from one birthday to another is a year.

So whenever your birthday is a time between that and the next birthday is one year.

So here's March, look, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December, January, February, March.

That is a complete year for Izzy.

So let's do a quick check.

Starting with your birthday month, say the months of one full year in order.

So I'll give you an example.

If your birthday is in September it will go, September, October, November, December, January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August.

That'll be a complete year.

So can you do that with your birthday month? And I'm going to give you a little challenge here.

I did that without looking at the screen, without looking at those months, could you do it as well? Could you do it with your eyes closed or looking away from the screen? See if you can do it.

Pause the video and good luck.

Okay, well, it all depends on when your birthday was.

But for example, Aisha's birthday's in July, so for her it goes July, August, September, October, November, December, January, February, March, April, May, June.

So a task for you.

Number one, fill in the rest of the day to show a full week.

So starting with Thursday, what are the rest of the days in that full week? And then for b, a little bit harder, I've given you one of the days, which is Tuesday can you do the full week? I think about the day before first and then keep going.

And for number two.

Alex starts year one in September, write the month in order until he starts year two.

So starting with September, can you do a full year, please? Think about those months.

And finally, Jacob is six in November.

Write all of the months in order until he is seven.

Pause the video.

Good luck with that and I'll see you very soon for some feedback.

Welcome back.

How did you get on with that? Did you find that easy, hard, somewhere in the middle? Let's have a look.

So the rest of the days showing a full week, starting with Thursday are, so Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday.

That's seven days, that's a full week.

And then for b, it goes Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday.

Again, seven days a full week.

And then for number two, Alex starts year one in September, write the monthly order until he starts year two.

So it goes September, October, November, December, January, February, March, April, May, June, July, and August.

And that is 12 months and that is a complete year.

And finally, Jacob is six in November.

Write all of the months in order until he's seven.

So start with November.

It then goes December, January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, and October.

Very well done if you've got all of those right.

We've come to the end of the lesson.

I've had great fun today and hope you have too.

In today's lesson, we've been using language relating to days, weeks, months, and years.

Different units of times such as days, weeks, months, or years can be used to measure different events.

So we have to choose the right one.

One week is seven full days from any starting day.

So a week is seven days and that could start with Wednesday for example.

One year is 12 full months starting from any month.

So a year is 12 full months and it could start for example with April.

You've been amazing today.

I've really enjoyed spending this time with you, exploring this concept, and I hope to get the chance to work with you again in the near future.

But until then, take care, have a great day, and goodbye.