What time is it?

For the past two weeks, we've been working on learning to tell time to the hour and half hour. They understood time to the hour pretty quickly. Time to the half hour has been tougher. We've been having a lot of fun though.

Years ago I bought these clock cards from the Dollar Tree and laminated them so we could write on them with dry-erase markers. I wrote in times on the digital clock part and my students had to fill in the hands on the analog clock. Once I approved their answer they would erase the hands and pass to the left and work on the next. I overheard one student say, "This is so fun!" That's what a teacher likes to hear!!

We've also played a matching game with these fun springtime cards I made. Students have to match the analog clock, the digital clock, and the time in word form. For a challenge I had some students put the cards in chronological order or find the card that answers a question such as, "If swim practice starts at 3 o'clock and lasts one hour, what time does it end?" Then they had to find the 4:00 card.

Click here to see this set is in my store. It includes 108 cards for time to the hour, half, hour, 5 minutes, and to the minute. Could be used in any elementary classroom!