Telling Time

What can you work on at home? Telling time!  Students should be able to tell time on the whole and half hour.  A good tip for students who confuse the minute and hour hands is the word "hour" is a shorter word/shorter hand and the word "minute" is a longer word/hand.  Students should also practice reading time as "half past" the hour (for example "seven thirty" can also be read "half past seven").  Showing students the relationship between the clock and fractions is helpful too!  30 is half of 60, which is why say half past the hour. We have also been practicing telling time in 5 minutes intervals.  The trickiest part about that is 45, 50 and 55 minutes past the hour.  Many students want to say it's an hour later then it actually shows because the hour hand is so close to the next hour...but it's not there yet!