It's time

Learning to read the time has been one of those concepts that I've wondered about how you go about "teaching" to kids. But in usual unschooling fashion (or perhaps driven by my cluelessness on how to formally introduce it) it's started to happen all on it's own - or more likely it's always been happening but I just see a *shift* from where he's been at for a while.

About a year ago Nathan became interested in time and would ask what time was showing on the analogue clock on the oven and quickly got the hang of the o'clocks and would announce it if he noticed it going past the hour. Since then, there has not been a lot of interest and I've just spoken about things in regards to time - when we're due somewhere, what time it is now, when someone was coming over to visit etc and he's experimented with using time in his discussions such as "we've been doing this for 11 hrs!".

In the past few weeks as he's climbed into my side of the bed in the morning, he's taken to watching my digital clock and wanting to know the time. He'll read out the numbers and ask me what time it is (to which I mutter my response). He then watches for the number change and I then mutter the next time (with variances on how I present it - quarter past 7 or 7:15).

I think it might be a good time to get him his own watch.