Time - Time to the half hour - Presentation

Students are set to learn about telling time to the half hour in a structured lesson that incorporates fluency and reasoning teaching slides. The lesson begins with a discussion prompting students to think about the position of the minute hand when indicating 'half past' compared to 'O'clock'. This leads to a series of activities where students are tasked with matching specific times, such as half past two, twelve, nine, and others, to the correct positions on various clock faces. These exercises are designed to reinforce their understanding of the minute hand's placement at the 6 position, signifying that it is half past the hour.

The lesson continues with more complex tasks that involve completing statements with the correct times, further cementing the concept of 'half past'. For example, students are asked to fill in the blanks with the appropriate hour to complete phrases like "The time is half past ____." Additionally, reasoning activities challenge students to identify and correct mistakes, such as when a character named Tia misreads the minute hand's position. Students also learn to draw the minute and hour hands on a clock face based on given instructions, such as when the minute hand points at six and the hour hand is halfway between two numbers. The session concludes with independent work where students draw lines to match clocks to times and verify if the clocks have been matched correctly to the corresponding times, followed by a discussion on distinguishing the hour and minute hands and their positions at half past the hour.