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Telling Time Teacher Resources
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Several activities are provided for your young learners to practice telling time. One suggestion is to provide each learner with their own clock. After you read the time, each learner must place the clock's hands in the correct place and hold it up. A quick and easy way to assess your learners!
The whole class discusses the differences between the two clocks: digital and a clock with hands. They discuss the differences between the hour hand and minute hand. Students are taught telling time to the half hour. They are introduced to telling time on a digital clock.
In this telling and counting money worksheet, students respond to 21 questions that require them to tell time on analog clocks and count sets of coins.
Young learners create a clock by adding hands and placing the numbers in the correct location. After each learner has their very own clock, they explore each component. Review on the hour times, and then introduce them to five-minute intervals. It's so much easier to understand when a learner can manipulate it themself!
Learners write the time shown on a clock beneath it. There are five worksheets; all clock show half hours. An excellent resource if you are teaching the skill of telling time to your charges.
Young mathematicians practice how to tell time to the minute, and to the hour, using manipulative clocks. They practice these skills at assigned Internet sites after listening to a teacher read aloud of Eric Carle's The Grouchy Ladybug. They also make a clock to practice and demonstrate with at home.
Youngsters examine how to tell time to the nearest half-hour. They discuss why people wear watches, listen to the book "What Time Is It?" by Sheila Keenan, view examples on a model clock, and complete a worksheet with the teacher.
First-graders tell time to the nearest half hour and differentiate between morning, afternoon, and evening. They make a clock out of a paper plate that includes a minute and hour hand, and count by 1's and 5's to sixty. They set their clock to different times, and complete a worksheet.
Have your youngsters examine the difference between digital and analog clocks. Using They participate in a "Telling Time BINGO" game. Not only is this activity fun, but it provides the teacher with an opportunity to informally assess his or her class.
How can we estimate time? Have your young mathematicians make a clock. Then they compare and contrast types of clocks. They practice writing times in two different ways and make a book about telling time.