Looking at and Reading Calendars 1. Circle the following dates on the calendar on the previous page. a) Circle your birthday using the colour red. b) Circle New Year’s Eve using yellow. c) Circle New Year’s Day using orange. d) Circle St Patrick’s Day using blue. e) Circle Christmas Day using green. f) Circle a member of your family’s birthday using purple. g) What day was Christmas Day on in the year of this calendar? h) Is Christmas Day on the same day every year? Why/why not?
Giggler
Q: How can you make time fl y? A: Throw a clock out of the window!
i) How many days are there between your birthday and Hallowe’en? j) How many full months, weeks and days is that?
Puzzler
What occurs once in every minute, twice in every moment, yet never in a thousand years?
Renaming Minutes as Hours and Hours as Minutes
Have a look at this clock face. If we count around the minutes of the clock we can fi nd out how many minutes there are in 1 hour. Let’s count around the clock together in 5-minute intervals.
Answer: There are minutes in 1 hour.
So how many minutes are there in 1 hour 10 minutes? Answer: 60 minutes + 10 minutes =