Teaching how to tell time start with learning telling time to the hour and half hour. Here are 18 quick resources including activities, telling time worksheets and printables.
I hope you find these free teacher-created resources and lesson plan ideas helpful.
Let’s start by checking out some activities to practice telling time to the hour.
What Time is It? Activities
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1. Paper Plate Snowman Clock – Two large paper plates makes a super-cute and handy telling time snowman.
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2. Body Time – Get your kinesthetic learners engaged by forming the clock hands with their entire body!
3. DIY Make Your Own Clock – Using two colors of paper to make a telling time manipulative clock. Works for any grade.
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4. Stop the Clock – A fast-paced, interactive online game for kids to practice matching the time.
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5. Two Halves Easter Egg Activity – Create this for any level of telling time. Draw times on the halves of an Easter egg for students to match up.
Matching Games – Printable
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6. Time to Go Camping – A bingo-style game for two players. Students roll the dice, cover the matching clock and the first camper with all spaces covered wins!
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7. What Time is it – Connecting to The Grouchy Ladybug, this bingo-style spinner game focuses on telling time out loud for working in partners.
8. Digital and Analog Clock Matching – Match up the digital clock card to the analog time card and complete the recording sheet writing down the times on the card with the correlating letter.
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9. Time For Sunshine – Match the sunglasses analog clock with the sunshine digital time cards. Includes 2 telling time worksheets.
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10. Batter Up – A baseball themed math center to match the baseball clocks to the player with the correct digital time.
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11. Spooky Cat Time – A cat themed set of analog clock cards and matching recording sheet.
Telling Time Worksheets
12. Hip Hoppin Around the Clock – A cut and paste activity for sequencing the numbers on an analog clock.
13. Snowman Time to the Hour – This simple snowmen worksheet connects with time to the hour and half hour.
Resources
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14. Math Journal – A one week journal for first grade students to answer questions about the clock and support their answers with words and pictures.
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15. Time Chant – Connect math to your literacy block with a chant about time. Also a hula-hoop clock and set of matching printables.
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16. Short and Tall Hands – Helping students learn the clock hand functions with the simple song “I’m a Little Tea Pot.”
17. Hickory Dickory Dock – Using the familiar nursery rhmye, this video illustration of how the clock works is a great introduction to telling time for kindergarten and first grade.
Anchor Chart
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18. Measuring Time – Keep this handy reference on how to measure time posted in your classroom.
I hope you found these quick resources and lesson ideas to be helpful. Thanks talented teachers – your printables and lessons are great!
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