A Day ...

What is a Day

A day is how long it takes for the Earth to turn once around:

A Day is 24 Hours Long

Each new day starts at midnight (12 O'clock at Night) and ends next midnight. Here is what many children might be doing, hour by hour:

  24 Hour
Clock
AM / PM What Many Children
Would Be Doing
Midnight 0:00 12 Midnight Sleeping
1:00 1:00 AM Sleeping
2:00 2:00 AM Sleeping
3:00 3:00 AM Sleeping
4:00 4:00 AM Sleeping
Sunrise 5:00 5:00 AM Sleeping
6:00 6:00 AM Sleeping
7:00 7:00 AM Having breakfast
8:00 8:00 AM Traveling to school
9:00 9:00 AM At School
Midday 10:00 10:00 AM At School
11:00 11:00 AM At School
12:00 12 Noon Having lunch
13:00 1:00 PM At School
14:00 2:00 PM At School
Sunset 15:00 3:00 PM Traveling Home
16:00 4:00 PM Homework
17:00 5:00 PM Play time
18:00 6:00 PM Having the evening meal
19:00 7:00 PM Watching TV or Playing
Midnight 20:00 8:00 PM Getting ready for Bed
21:00 9:00 PM Sleeping
22:00 10:00 PM Sleeping
23:00 11:00 PM Sleeping
0:00 12 Midnight Sleeping

AM/PM vs 24 Hour Clock

There are two ways to show the time: "AM/PM" or "24 Hour Clock".
24 Hours 0:00 to 23:59 and AM/PM

A Typical Day

This is how my friend spends his day:

  • He wakes up early in the morning, gets dressed, and has breakfast
  • then he goes to school
  • in the middle of the day he has lunch
  • in the afternoon he comes home from school
  • then he does homework and has some time to play
  • then just as the sun goes down he has his evening meal
  • then he might watch TV or play on the computer
  • and then he goes to sleep

Days Have Names

There are seven different days:

7 days together make a Week.

 

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