Time to Learn About Telling Time
First Graders must learn to tell time in 1/2 hour increments (of course, the more they know the better!). Since so many clocks are digital, children have a hard time reading a clock. Please work on this skill with your child.
Here is a trick to use to help students remember the minute hand and the hour hand --- hour is a short word and it is the short hand - minute is a longer word and it is the longer hand!
The hardest thing for first graders to learn is where the hour hand is on the half hour. For example, where is the hour hand at 1:30? - between the 1 and the 2. They must understand the difference between AM and PM. Teach them that 60 seconds = 1 minute, 60 minutes = 1 hour, and 24 hours = 1 day.
There are 2 kinds of clocks - digital and analog. They must know both!
Here is a trick to use to help students remember the minute hand and the hour hand --- hour is a short word and it is the short hand - minute is a longer word and it is the longer hand!
The hardest thing for first graders to learn is where the hour hand is on the half hour. For example, where is the hour hand at 1:30? - between the 1 and the 2. They must understand the difference between AM and PM. Teach them that 60 seconds = 1 minute, 60 minutes = 1 hour, and 24 hours = 1 day.
There are 2 kinds of clocks - digital and analog. They must know both!