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EntropyControlSpecialist 07:35 AM 07-29-2012
Look at your state standards for Kindergarten. Telling time is typically not something that is required to be mastered by a Kindergarten age student.

When I taught 1st grade, they were beginning to learn about coins. I do a coin chant with my Preschoolers now for the sake of introducing them and letting them inspect them. They are not expected to recognize which coin is which nor are they expected to know the value of each coin. Some of them do! They are ahead of the game by 2-3 years! But, some of them don't and that is perfectly fine.

Calendar is for introduction purposes as well in Preschool. We do it daily here, and are almost at the end of July but they still don't quite realize that is still is July. Some do, most don't. But, it's introducing Calendar Time to them and introducing the months/days/holidays. My calendar has a month that changes above it and each weekday is in black while the weekend dates are in red. I purposely did this.
We do a days of the week song in english and spanish and they really enjoy that.
The months of the year songs we play several times daily while the children are playing. They can say them in english and spanish.
We discuss seasons by reading books about them during the season.

Weather is one thing that they do understand fully. We discuss how we wear shorts and t-shirts when it is hot outside, how our hair blows when it is windy, how we get wet if it is raining, etc.
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