This resource provides Grades 1–3 students with a comprehensive introduction to understanding and measuring time. It blends math, literacy, phonics, creative writing, and research skills to help children develop a strong conceptual foundation. Students learn to tell time using analog and digital clocks, understand hours, minutes, and seconds, explore calendars, and recognize seasons, months, and days. The program includes matching activities, worksheets, reproducible clocks, vocabulary charts, and hands‑on tasks such as making sand timers.

The resource also integrates language development through rhyming, antonyms, alphabetical order, compound words, and creative writing prompts related to time. Research tasks encourage students to explore different types of clocks, abbreviations, and calendar use. With its blend of math and literacy, the program supports conceptual understanding, communication skills, and practical application of time concepts in daily life.

Learning Intentions:

• To teach and reinforce the concepts of telling time.
• To develop an understanding that time is measured in a variety of ways.

Introduction:

• Learning Expectations - At A Glance
• Teacher Assessment Rubric
• Student Self-Assessment Rubric
• Reproducible Clocks
• Blank Clocks and Activity Worksheets
• Time Booklet Masters
• Teacher Notes
  • Introduction
  • Learning Objectives
  • List of Skills
  • List of Vocabulary
  • Techer Input Suggestions
    • Planning Ahead
    • Introduction
    • Discussion Topics
    • Making a Sand Timer
    • Vocabulary Charts
    • Chart Stories
    • Literature
    • Music
    • Art

Canada – Standards Covered

• Reading analog clocks (hour → half‑hour → quarter‑hour → 5‑minute intervals)
• Understanding a.m./p.m.
• Using calendars (days, weeks, months, seasons)
• Sequencing events and understanding passage of time
• Vocabulary and language conventions related to time
• Research skills (types of clocks, abbreviations, charts)

U.S. Common Core – Standards Covered

• Grade 1: Tell and write time to hour & half‑hour
• Grade 2: Tell and write time to nearest 5 minutes; use a.m./p.m.
• Grade 3: Supplemental enrichment (not required by CCSS)

 Student Worksheets & Activities:

Time Matching Activities:

• Recognizing O'clock
• Recognizing Half Past
• Recognizing Quarter After
• Recognizing Quarter To
• Recognizing Five Minute Intervals
• Recognizing Ways Time is Written

Phonics Activities:

• Blend "cl"
• Short Vowel "o"
• Syllabication
• Short Vowel Review 

Creative Writing Activities:

• Writing About a Celebration
• "Once Upon a Time" story
• Completing/Illustrating Rhymes
• Being Late
• A Summer Story
• A Winter Story
• A Spring Story
• An Autumn Story 

Word Study Activities:

• Word/Picture Matching
• Month/Sentence Matching
• Rhyming Words
• Antonyms
• Alphabetical Order
• Word Meanings
• Compound Words
• Recognizing Tenses 

Research Activities:

• Completing a Chart
• Abbreviations
• Researching a Clock
• Discovering Parts of a Clock
• Using a T.V. Program Guide
• Using a Calendar

Telling The Time Worksheets:

• Recording O'clock
• Recording Half-past
• Recording Quarter To the Hour
• Recording Quarter After the Hour
• Recording the Time After the Hour
• Recording the Time Before the Hour
• Review of Before and After the Hour
• Marking an O'clock
• Marking on Half Past
• Marking on Quarter to the Hour
• Marking on Quarter After the Hour
• Marking on Five Minute Intervals After the Hour
• Marking on Five Minute Intervals Before the Hour
• Marking on Different Times
• Telling Time Using Different Clocks
• Using a Calendar
• Days of the Week  

Time Printing and Writing Activities with Nursery Rhymes: 

Centers: Cut out the Nursery Rhyme Cards. Color, mount, and laminate them. Store the cards in an envelope. Attach the instruction card. Place the cards at a printing/writing or reading center. 

Whiteboard: display on the whiteboard for students to copy into a notebook. 

• The Mouse and the Clock
• Pease Porridge
• Bedtime
• The Ten O’clock Scholar
• Wee Willie Winkie
• A Week of Birthdays
• The Clock
• Thirty Days Hath September
• Solomon Grundy 

Calendar Worksheets:

• Blank Calendar
• The Calendar – September – finding dates
• Days of the Week

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