📘 Class 3 Maths – Time Goes On
Chapter Focus: Calendar, Days, Months, Age, Clock, Duration of Time
🔹 1. Calendar and Months
Children learn about months, days, and how to read a calendar.
👉 Teacher Explanation
A calendar shows days, weeks, and months. Some months have 30 days, some have 31 days, and February has 28 or 29 days.
🧠 Activity 1: Observe July
- Count Sundays in July
- Write all Thursdays’ dates
- 3 days after 22 July = 25 July
- School closed on 7 July for 15 days → Opens on 22 July
✔ Solution
Children count using the calendar and mark days with colours.
🔹 2. Months and Year
📝 Questions
- Write names of 12 months
- Month with less than 30 days → February
- Days in a year → 365
- Weeks in a year → 52 weeks
✔ Explanation
Names of months never change, but dates of festivals may change.
🔹 3. Age Fun (Simple Age Problems)
Hetal is 10 years older than her brother and twice his age.
✔ Solution
Brother = 10 years
Hetal = 20 years
🎯 Activity
Ask children to find their age and parents’ age using birth year.
🔹 4. Reading a Birth Certificate
Date of Birth: 02/05/2015
- Month = May
- Age on 2 May 2025 = 10 years
- Age in 2030 = 15 years
- 8th Birthday = 2 May 2023
✍ Activity
Children make their own birth certificate.
🔹 5. Clock and Time
🕒 Analog Clock
Short hand = Hour hand
Long hand = Minute hand
7:00 to 7:15 → 15 minutes
🕰 Classroom Activity
- Show 8:30 on toy clock
- Show quarter past 8
🔹 6. A Day in My Life
| Activity | Time |
|---|---|
| Wake up | 7:00 AM |
| School | 8:00 AM |
| Lunch | 1:00 PM |
| Play | 4:00 PM |
| Sleep | 9:00 PM |
🔹 7. Duration of Time
⏳ Fill the Table
- Brushing teeth → 3 minutes
- School period → 40 minutes
- Lunch break → 30 minutes
🔹 8. Fun Activity – Sand Clock
Children make a sand timer using two bottles and sand.
This helps them understand how time can be measured.
✅ Learning Outcomes
- Reads calendar correctly
- Understands age and dates
- Reads clock time
- Estimates duration
🎉 Happy Teaching!