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✏️ My Book of Easy Telling Time: Learning about Hours and Half-Hours and My Book of Telling Time: Learning about Minutes from Kumon. Turn to this pair of Kumon workbooks for more practice in telling time to the hour, half-hour, or minute. – Elementary
✏️ Telling time worksheets from MathFactCafe. Use this free website to generate printable time worksheets. You can tailor the worksheets by selecting the problem type (write in the time, draw in the hands) and the time increments (hour, half-hour, 15-minute, 5-minute, and 1-minute). – Elementary
✏️ Khan Academy math modules. Khan Academy offers a wealth of free math educational resources, including a large library of instructional videos and online practice problem sets. – Elementary
Tip – On Khan Academy, the Time modules are divided by grade. Grade 1 teaches how to tell time to the hour or half hour. Grade 2 teaches telling time to the nearest 5 min. on a labeled and unlabeled clock. Grade 3 teaches telling time to the nearest 1 min. on a labeled and unlabeled clock and explains how to approach time elapsed problems. Grade 4 provides practice with converting units of time. Grade 5 gives further practice with converting units of time.
✏️ Time from CK12. Find free, adaptive online practice with converting different units of time, telling time across all different intervals, and determining elapsed time. – Elementary
🔗 Content Connection: World History. Explore the history of clocks and calendars.
manipulatives
🖐️ Judy Clock. When it comes to learning to tell time, nothing beats the classic Judy Clock. – Elementary
picture books
📖 What Time Is It Mr. Crocodile? by Judy Siera. “Mr. Crocodile has big plans for finally catching—and eating—five pesky monkeys, but those little rascals dupe him again and again.” Cute story and opportunities for kids to practice reading time (to the hour) on each page. – Elementary
📖 Telling Time with Big Mama Cat by Dan Harper. Big Mama Cat leads us through her very busy day in this sweet and clever introduction to telling time. Children can practice reading analog clocks on each page of the book; a fold-out page at the front includes a clock with moveable hands. – Elementary
📖 Five Minutes: (That’s a Lot of Time) (No, It’s Not) (Yes, It Is) by Audrey Vernick and Liz Garton Scanlon. Here’s the perfect little picture book to read when your child is learning to estimate time intervals. “Follow one little boy and his family on a very busy day, as he discovers that sometimes five minutes feels like forever—like when you're finishing up at the dentist's office or waiting in line for the bathroom or in the backseat on a long car ride—and sometimes five minutes feels like no time at all—like when you're playing your favorite game or at the tippy top of a roller coaster or snuggling up with a book before bedtime.” – Preschool • Elementary
📖 Telling Time: How to Tell Time on Digital and Analog Clocks from Jules Older. If you want a nonfiction book that will help you teach your child how to tell time, then this is your go-to resource. Older explains what time is, then shows kids how to read digital and analog clocks. – Elementary
📖 Just a Second: A Different Way to Look at Time by Steve Jenkins. Did you know that a woodpecker can hammer a tree with its beak 20 times in one second? Or that the moon is moving away from Earth at a rate of 1.5 inches per year? With appealing collage art and minimal text, Jenkins shows us “a different way to look at time.” Along the way, he briefly explains the origins of the units of time that we use today. This fascinating book is simple enough for young kids, but will hold the interest of all. – Elementary
📖 Me Counting Time: From Seconds to Centuries by Dan Harper. A little girl ponders different lengths of time, from seconds to millennia, in this introduction to units of time; suitable for young elementary children. – Preschool • Elementary