Time - Telling the time - Presentation

In a comprehensive lesson about telling the time, students are encouraged to master reading clocks to the nearest minute. The lesson starts with a review of fundamental time concepts, such as the number of minutes in an hour. The class then moves on to identify the minute and hour hands on various clock faces. Activities are structured to help students practice telling the time through visual examples, such as '8 minutes past 1' and '27 minutes to 9'. This hands-on approach ensures that students become fluent in reading different clock positions and can express the time accurately in minutes past and to the hour.

The lesson progresses with exercises that challenge students to draw the hands on clocks for given times, such as '24 minutes to 8' and '14 minutes to 12 o'clock'. These tasks not only reinforce their understanding of the clock face but also develop their reasoning skills. Additional activities involve scenarios where students must deduce the time when one of the clock hands is missing, promoting critical thinking. The lesson concludes with independent work where students write the time shown on clocks and match written times to their corresponding clock faces, followed by a discussion that cements their learning about the minute and hour hands and how to calculate the minutes past and to the hour.