Time - Time to the hour - Presentation

In this engaging lesson on telling time to the hour, students are introduced to the fundamental concepts of reading a clock face. The lesson begins with an exploration of the clock, encouraging students to observe and discuss what they notice, including the numbers and hands on the clock. Key vocabulary words such as 'o'clock', 'clock', 'hour hand', 'hour', 'minute hand', and 'minute' are explained to ensure that students are familiar with the terms necessary for understanding time. The lesson is designed to build fluency and reasoning skills through a series of interactive teaching slides and activities.

Students are actively involved in learning through a variety of tasks that reinforce their ability to match times with clock faces. Activities include matching specific times, such as 'two o'clock', 'nine o'clock', and 'five o'clock', to the correct clock illustrations. Further exercises require students to complete sentences by writing the correct time in words and to draw the hour and minute hands on blank clock faces to represent given times. The lesson also incorporates reasoning challenges, where students must identify and correct mistakes in time-telling, such as when the hour and minute hands are incorrectly interpreted. Independent work and group discussions help students to consolidate their learning and understand the differences and similarities between the hour and minute hands, as well as their positions at various times.