Clock faces (free printable, six to a page)

About this sheet

Telling time is learned by doing it a hundred times, and a page of clocks is the place to do it. The faces are drawn to size with twelve numbers, sixty minute marks and a dot at the center, and every option can be switched off to make the task harder. In the blank mode, students draw hands for a time you call out. In the read mode, the hands are already drawn from the times you type, and students write the time on the line. In the set mode, the time is printed under each clock and the face is empty. The short hand is the hour and the long hand the minutes, and you type the times as hour, colon, minutes.

Grades: K to 4. Best in: October, November, January, February, March.

How to use it

1. Choose a mode: blank faces, hands to read, or a time to set. Type your own times, one per line, as hour, colon, minutes, such as 4:30.
2. Turn the minute marks off for hour and half-hour work, and on when students are ready for five-minute intervals.
3. Print on paper for a worksheet or in a sleeve for a dry-erase set. Check the answers together, one clock at a time.

Five ideas for class

1. Start with times on the hour only, then half past, then quarter past and quarter to, and then five-minute steps. Type the times for each stage.
2. Switch to the set mode and have students draw hands for a time, then swap with a partner who writes the time they see.
3. Turn off the numbers for older students, so they read the clock face from the marks and the position of the hands alone.
4. Make a day-in-the-life page: print the clocks with times from the class schedule, and have students write what is happening at each.
5. Use blank faces in a sleeve at a center, with a deck of time cards to set and check.

Related

• Number bonds
• Blank number lines
• Blank hundreds grid
• Clock face
• Daily schedule cards