It's About Time!

My minute and hour hand working together...

So - we have been working on concepts of time in the last week of school (I find it a little humorous that I'm late posting our lessons on time...). We have been studying the concepts of time as considered throughout the year (365 days in a year, 7 days in a week, 52 weeks in a year) and also the concept of time as it pertains to physical time on an analog clock.

When talking about the clock, we discussed that there are 24 hrs. in a day, 60 minutes in an hour, and 60 seconds in a minute.  We've also gone over how to tell time.  The kids have gotten very good at both displaying time on practice clocks and reading times displayed on various analog clocks.  During our time lesson we did a variety of activities, from making a circle on the floor with 60 blocks, each 5th one a different color, to practicing being the hour/minute hands in the middle of a large floor 'clock' we made with index cards.  The latter proved to be the kids' favorite time telling activity. :)  Here are some pictures of the fun we had with that particular lesson.