Teaching time 1st grade

Check out these clocks and telling time ideas and resources including an easy-prep unit for teaching your elementary students.

Telling time is a difficult skill for second and third graders. When students get to third grade, teachers will focus on telling time to the minute and solving elapsed time problems. To complete these challenging tasks, students need to have mastered the basics of time. Below is a list of ideas and resources you can use […]

This is a great activity to help ESL students identify their daily routine while also learning about how to tell time.

Let’s talk about how to teach telling time to primary students! My students love learning about time…they see it as a “break” from more rigorous mat

Help your kids to learn how to tell the time with this incredible free printable workbook. Learning to tell the time is an activity that's suitable for children from kindergartden through to third grade. In fact, we used these printables along with a number of additional resources to help our children tell the time over the course of around a year - we built up knowledge and experience with the minutes hand (which seems to be the most difficult to learn).

We are working on telling time in first grade and I wanted to share this cute song in case anyone else is teaching time right now. This is another one of those songs that I have known forever but that I don’t know the origins of- if it’s yours let me know! We’ve been singing […]

FREE Pumpkin Time to the Hour math center! This telling time to the hour puzzle activity is perfect for students learning about analog and digital time.

Telling time is a skill that students should learn early on and master quickly, since they will use it their entire lives. Furthermore, we live in a very