Children you might like to:<br />
<ul>
<li>find different ways of writing 07:30 s</li>
<li>how in three distinct ways the things you take to school
everyday/ occasionally</li>
<li>write about what you would like to do at school this year.</li>
</ul>
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Parents you might like to: <br />

<ul>
<li>examine other aspects of a youngster's day with regard to the
24 hour clock</li>
<li>get the children to 'close their eyes and imagine the journey
to school', with you questioning them about what they pass, what
they see, who they recognise.</li>
<li>make up strange words, like 'stupendous' that could be used for
... lots of, a small amount of, a long time and a very dull
day.</li>
<li>talk through the summer vacation and list all the things that
have been done. You never know Miss Chow King may be their new
teacher!</li>
</ul>
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Teachers you might like to: <br />
<ul>
<li>build on the root words microscope/ telescope and investigate
the issue of enlargement and scale factors - making things larger
and smaller examine different types of time pieces used through
history</li>
<li>get the children to estimate a passage of time - 3 minutes say
and see how accurate/ inaccurate they have been. How
can you represent these trials?</li>
<li>build upon words like 'cough up' and sewn up'. What other words
do the children know and what do they understand by them?</li>
</ul>
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