Teaching time; please tell me if I can buy the product I've thought of before I take my kitchen clock to pieces

[lingle]

I've just realised exactly what I need to give DS2 the concept of Morning, Afternoon and Evening.

I could create it at home as follows:

1. Take kitchen clock and pull off cover.
2. Remove minute hand.
3. divide into three sections
4. Highlight section from 7.30 to 12 in yellow (that's morning)
5. Highlight section from 12 to 6 in red (that's afternoon)
6. Highlight section from 6 to 7.30 in blue (that's evening).

From 7.30pm to 7.30am he ought to be in bed!

Does this product exist or shall I distress my husband by taking the kitchen clock to pieces?

What I love about these visual things (like the calendar) is that once they start working, DS2 understands the concepts just as well, if not perhaps even better, than children who are better at learning concepts with verbal explanations.

Yes Tingler, manners adherence ('say thank you!) is a good example (although I must add that in the case of peopel with SLD that can go too far, with support workers telling you proudly of how 'Andrew always signs 'thank you'' (but very little else as poor bloke has been badgered for years when presenceo r absenceo f manners is the least of his issues).

Yes Dame, really great!
God, it drives me wild with frustration when peopel fail to put into place these really cheap simple effective strategies that help orient a person in time and space.

Without getting these right there is little point in all the stuff further up hierarchy of possible intervention.

moon/dame

What I find so interesting is that, using these supports, the child's undertstanding can jump not one but several levels. So my son has an 18 month or so receptive language delay but is now ahead of NT kids on some of these issues.......

Am still not convinced teachers get it. Will press for colour-coding of calendar at parent teacher evening. If they've got the bloody calendar up at all by then, that is.

bump.

Hi Lingle
Only read your p[ost so apologies if someones already suggested this but you can get this clock which is called a time timer. Bit hard to describe here, but basically it has this red circle behind the clock face (only an hour clock that's the only thing) and u can put it on say 15 minutes (like 15 mins til bed time or do this for 5 mins or whatever) and the red bit disappears as the minutes go by.
Anyway if you go to amazon (or google it maybe) u might see what I mean. They are incredibly expensive though at around £90 for a large one and £40 odd for a small one.

Charity shops always have lots of clocks too for a couple of quid. This is a very interesting idea that I will consider.