Time - Time to the hour - Presentation

Understanding how to tell the time is a fundamental skill, and the "Time to the Hour" presentation is designed to help students grasp the basics of reading clocks. The presentation introduces key vocabulary such as 'o'clock', 'hour hand', 'minute hand', 'hour', and 'minute', ensuring that children are familiar with the terms associated with telling time. Activities within the presentation are structured to reinforce this learning, beginning with matching digital times to their corresponding clock faces. Students are presented with various times, such as two o'clock, nine o'clock, and five o'clock, and are tasked with identifying these times on different clock illustrations.

As the lesson progresses, students engage in further activities that deepen their understanding of time. In one activity, they are asked to complete sentences by filling in the missing times, practising their ability to recognise and articulate the hour. Another activity challenges them to draw the hour and minute hands on blank clock faces to represent specific times, such as one o'clock, eight o'clock, and twelve o'clock. The presentation also includes reasoning exercises where students must identify and correct mistakes made by fictional characters regarding the positions of the hour and minute hands. For example, they learn that at nine o'clock, the minute hand points to 12, not to 9. Discussion prompts encourage students to compare and contrast the hour and minute hands and to predict their positions at different times, further solidifying their time-telling skills.