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Read a clock to the hour: 1st grade math

Time to the hour and half-hour, analog and digital. A free 1st grade lesson plan, a question set with answers and a printable sheet with its key. Copy it and make it yours.

Lesson plan

Goal

  • Students can do this: time to the hour and half-hour, analog and digital.

Teach (10 min)

  • The long hand on the 12 means o'clock: 3:00. The long hand on the 6 means half past: 3:30.
  • An hour later, the hour number goes up by one.
  • Work one example on the board while students say each step aloud, then do one together.

Practise (15 min)

  • Students work the printable sheet in pairs, then alone.
  • Or practise it as a game with no sign-up: https://peabody.kids/math/measure.timeHalf?lesson=1-measure-time-1&at=1

Exit ticket (5 min)

  • Use the first three questions on the printable sheet as a slip.

Printable sheet

Name: ____________________   Date: ____________

Read a clock to the hour (1st grade)

  1. What time does the clock show?
    123456789101112
  2. The clock shows 11:00. Which words say the same time?
    11:00
  3. What time does the clock show?
    123456789101112
  4. What time does the clock show?
    123456789101112
  5. What time does the clock show?
    123456789101112
  6. The clock shows 10:30. Which words say the same time?
    10:30
  7. What time does the clock show?
    123456789101112
  8. The clock shows 5:30. Which words say the same time?
    5:30
  9. What time does the clock show?
    123456789101112
  10. The clock shows 10:30. Which words say the same time?
    10:30
  11. The clock shows 3:30. What time will it be in 1 hour?
    123456789101112
  12. The clock shows 2:30. Which words say the same time?
    2:30
Key
  1. 4:00
  2. 11 o'clock
  3. 8:00
  4. 4:00
  5. 10:00
  6. half past 10
  7. 4:00
  8. half past 5
  9. 6:30
  10. half past 10
  11. 4:30
  12. half past 2

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