We've been working hard on telling time. In first grade we focus on time to the hour and the half hour.
We learn to read digital and analog clocks, do matching games, and draw hands on a clock to show o'clock and half-past times. We have a number of patterns concerning clocks on our current calendar markers. We first focus on just the short hour hand, checking if it is on the hour, or if it is halfway between two numbers. If the hour hand is halfway between the 8 and 9, we connect it to "half-past eight" or 8:30 and the minute hand will be pointing straight down. We know the minute hand has to take an entire trip around, and the hour hand moves from one number to the next, every hour. This is the language we've been using in our classroom. The students are catching on and I am seeing many aha! moments as they are getting more confident. We've had several fun interruptions in our day involving increased awareness of our classroom clock, such as, "Look! It's 11 o'clock right now!" I am sure some more practice at home would help.
We learn to read digital and analog clocks, do matching games, and draw hands on a clock to show o'clock and half-past times. We have a number of patterns concerning clocks on our current calendar markers. We first focus on just the short hour hand, checking if it is on the hour, or if it is halfway between two numbers. If the hour hand is halfway between the 8 and 9, we connect it to "half-past eight" or 8:30 and the minute hand will be pointing straight down. We know the minute hand has to take an entire trip around, and the hour hand moves from one number to the next, every hour. This is the language we've been using in our classroom. The students are catching on and I am seeing many aha! moments as they are getting more confident. We've had several fun interruptions in our day involving increased awareness of our classroom clock, such as, "Look! It's 11 o'clock right now!" I am sure some more practice at home would help.
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