Teaching time to children is much more difficult than I realized. I started teaching time to the kids last week with a baseball game. It can be found here: http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Spring-Math-Center-Time-to-Batter-Up-128984 The boys were able to figure out the o'clock for the most part. It got confusing when the hour hand was in between numbers rather than pointing straight at a number.
On freehomschooldeals.com I found printables for the clock. We taped a paper plate on the cabinet and wrote the numbers around it like a clock. We then taped the printables around our paper plate in order by 5's. The boys did a great job counting by 5s and they almost have the concept of connecting the number amount to the minute hand. Lane was able to recognize the numbers.
The boys started a time telling book today. It's located here: http://stepintosecondgrade.blogspot.com/2011/07/telling-time-printables.html They worked hard on writing different times in digital form.
We have a long way to go before I have two young men who can tell time. Alex isn't even impressed with the idea as a whole. He said that he would be fine with reading a digital clock for the rest of his life. I didn't have many arguments back for him except that he would have to learn how to tell time at school this upcoming year so he might as well learn it with me.
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