During the day
During the day sounds simple, but for a child it is a rubber band of time with no clear edges. The pictures below put a concrete image on the bright stretch between morning and evening, out in the daylight.
During the day
A bright sun shines over a landscape with a tree and a cloud.
About this visual support
Between the rise of the morning and the wind-down of the evening lies a long, blurry stretch that we adults simply call during the day. For a child who does not measure time in hours, that stretch is hard to grasp.
A picture of daylight, ideally with an outdoor setting and nature, gives the middle part of the day its own identity. It then becomes easier to answer questions like whether something happens before or after lunch, because the child can point to which part of the day you mean. Try linking the daytime picture to something that usually happens then, such as being outside or playing, so the abstract time word fills up with content the child already knows.
The more often the picture returns in talk about the day, the steadier the sense of where the middle sits. If you want to place the daytime picture between morning and evening so the whole day hangs together, you can build the sequence in the Routined app, with fourteen free days to begin with.
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