Untangling Everything You Need to Know About Time

by Pascale Estellon
A complete introduction to the many concepts of time, Its About Time uses activities, tips and tricks to
help kids understand time. Practice and master telling time with these four activities.

Activity 1: Paper plate craft

What you need:
a paper plate

colored paper

scissors

a glue stick

a marker

a paper fastener

1. Cut a circle from the colored

paper that is a bit smaller than
the paper plate.
2. Glue the circle onto the plate so
that your clock has a rim thats
a different color from the face.
3. Write the hours in the proper
places on the clock face.
4. Write the minutes on the rim.
5. Cut out an hour hand and a
minute hand and fasten them to
the center of the plate with the
paper fastener.
Great job! You made your very own clock!

But how does it work??

Now, lets take this one step at a time

Take your clock and try moving the hands.
Remember, they always turn in the same direction.
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Try moving the hour hand. Thats the short hand.

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Its 1 oclock.

Its 2 oclock.

To tell time correctly, f irst you read the number for the hourthe
number that the short hand points to. Then you read the number for
the minutesthe number that the long hand points to.

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Its 4:10.

Its 7:45.

Try practicing on your own clock!

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Activity 2: What time is it?

Cut out the clocks on the next page. Glue each one to the correct
circle below based on the time the clock reads.

11:00 a.m.

2:00 p.m.

8:00 p.m.

11:00 p.m.

Midnight

Noon

5:30 a.m.

3:25 p.m.

4:30 p.m.

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Use these clocks for the exercise on the previous page.

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Activity 3: Lets play with days!

Today is the day that you are having right now.
Yesterday was the day before today. Tomorrow is the day after today.

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Today

Directions:
1. Cut out the circle wheel on the next page.
Use a paper fastener to connect both circles at
their center points.

2. Turn the wheel until the red tab is pointing at

todays day. Then look at what day yesterday
was, and what day tomorrow will be.

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Cut out this circle. Follow directions on the previous page.

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What is the first day of the week?

What is the last day of the week?

If your birthday is on a Thursday,

what is the next day of the week?

Today is Saturday, and you dont have

to go to school.
What is the day before Saturday?
What is the day after Saturday?

If today is Monday, what is tomorrow?

What was yesterday?
On Sunday, you call your friends to invite
them to come over to your house in 3 days.
What day will your friends come over?

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Activity 4: My Timetable
Write the days of the week in each yellow circle, starting with Monday, and use
this timetable to record your activities for the week.

Morning

Afternoon

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