Telling the Time - PowerPoint

Year 2 students are introduced to the fundamentals of telling time through a series of interactive PowerPoint slides that make learning engaging and comprehensible. The presentation begins with an explanation of the clock face, likening it to a circular number line with numbers 1 through 12. Students are encouraged to complete clock faces by filling in the missing numbers, providing them with a practical understanding of the clock's layout. They also learn about the function of the clock's hands, with the short hand indicating the hour and the long hand showing the minutes past or to the hour. The lesson includes exercises where students practice identifying times such as 'o'clock', 'half past', 'quarter past', and 'quarter to', as well as calculating times one hour later or earlier.

The lesson continues with worksheets that challenge students to apply their knowledge by writing down the times shown on various clock faces. They learn that it takes 5 minutes for the minute hand to move from one number to the next, and that there are 60 minutes in an hour. This leads to exercises on counting in fives around the clock and understanding 'minutes past' and 'minutes to' the hour. By engaging in activities such as drawing the hands on clocks to indicate given times and recognising times like '20 minutes to 5' or '10 minutes past 9', students develop their ability to tell time accurately. The series of worksheets and practical exercises ensure that by the end of the lesson, students are more confident in reading and interpreting time on analog clocks.