This is a great book for teachers to introduce the concept of time in Maths in Early Years. It is a very fun book to read as 'o'clock' is repetitive throughout the book and so, the children will easily pick it up as you go along. It refers to routine daily activities that all children will be familiar with. It is also useful for introducing transition to nursery children i.e. Lunch'time', home'time' etc. A follow up activity can be carried out with the use of plastic clocks where the children and/or the teacher can move the hands on the clock. It almost seems like there is a new genre of using fairy tale and nursery rhyme characters to populate separate stories. In this case, the story does not require the characters to be from fairy tales, but the result is fun and makes for illustrations you want to explore and laugh over. Some are silly like Mr. Wolf trimming the hair on his chinny-chin-chin and the dish wearing a mask as she runs off with a bound and gagged Mr. Spoon captured inside the bowl. Not tremendously memorable but fun all the same.
Sweet as usual and fun to look for the clock on each page that showed the time.
—Krista
Time for bacon sandwiches :) Cute, but not one of her favorites
—melissa2293
a fun way to introduce telling the time.
—laylay
