Author: Pamela J.P. Schroeder & Jean M. Donisch
Title: What's the Big Idea: TIME
Illustrator: Pamela J.P. Schroeder & Jean M. Donisch
Publisher: Rourke Publications Inc.
Year: 1996
Genre: Concept
Format: Hardcover
Reading level: Transitional -- Self-Extending
Interest level: Elementary
Topics: Time of the day, telling time
Summary: This book would be read during a telling time unit. Teacher would have already taught kids how to tell time. This book is about Time. It teaches children how to tell time, along with different activities a person does at certain times of the day. This book discusses morning and night time. Also this book goes through the concept of a second, minute, and hour. A child reading this book would have a good idea about the concept of time. The pictures in this book include a lot of clocks, with bright colors and questions for the kids to keep them interested. This is a great book for children who are at the age of learning time.
Extension Activity: Have children create a clock out of construction paper. Then teacher could say different activities kids are most likely to do during the day or night. Then the kids would move the big hand and little hand on their clock to the time they think they do those activities at. The teacher would just keep saying different activities and the kids would set their clocks for the time they do that certain activity at. Teacher would go around classroom and check each child's clock to see if they were on the right track with telling time- if they were not, teacher would spend more time teaching the class, otherwise set up a time to meet with the child outside of class.
