Sunday, November 18, 2012

What time is it? Freebie

I found this latest math activity on Pinterest and thought it was just too perfect for our review of telling time to the hour/half hour. Here is the link to the original at Red Ted Art's Blog if you would like to check it out as well.

In the original activity, the students just cut circles and drew their own clock faces. To save some time on my end, I stamped a clock face on to a notecard. Then I wrote a specific time to the hour or half hour on the back of the notecard and each student was responsible for drawing the hands to represent the time on the back of their card onto the face of their clock. Once this was finished, we stapled the clock face to a strip of paper for a watch band. And voila...!


Once finished making our watches, I shared with the students that they would be walking around the room and asking their peers "¿Qué hora es/ What time is it?". Once asked, the classmate instead of telling them the time will simply quietly show them their watch face so that they can read the time. The students then record the time that they read next to the corresponding classmates name on the "What time is it?" recording sheet.

Here are some of my kiddos participating in the activity. They were so engaged. It was a great way to practice telling time vocabulary!


You can grab a copy of the Powerpoint to create your own "¿Qué hora es?/What time is it?" recording sheet by clicking the image below. By adding text boxes you can add your students' names to the 1st, 3rd, and 5th columns. Then your students will fill in the time next to each peer's name in the correponding space in the 2nd, 4th, and 6th columns. 


Graphics and Fonts by Creative Clips, The 3am Teacher, and Kevin & Amanda.

Once the students had sufficient time to walk around the room finding the time, we came back together as a class, and I called on each student to share the actual time on their watch to check our work. They did a great job with it, and it made for an authentic learning experience with telling time!



19 comments:

  1. What a great activity! I'll have to do that when we cover time. I'm curious as to the order that other teachers teach math. It seems that "everyone" has covered so much already, and the year isn't half over yet.

    What i have learned

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    1. I know that our curriculum spirals so we start things and then come back to them again throughout the year! So I am constantly feeling like we are all over the place too!

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  2. Oh my GOSH! LOVE LOVE!! I can just imagine all of your kiddos walking around talking about time. Great activity! Thanks for sharing!


    Kate
    Second Grade Sparkle

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  3. So excited to have found your blog! Such great ideas and in both languages. :)

    www.dualtrio.blogspot.com

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    1. Looking forward to checking out your blog as well! I love finding other dual teachers to share ideas with!

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  4. This looks like such fun! I love activities where kiddos can be up and moving. Thanks for sharing this.:)

    Cindy
    Granny Goes to School

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    1. You are welcome! Glad it will be useful for you! We had fun!

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  5. I absolutely love this idea! Thank you for sharing the idea and the freebie to go along with it! I will be using this when we get to time. Happy Thanksgiving!

    Aimee
    Primarily Speaking

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  6. Any time the kiddos can make something to wear is always a good day! Not to mention that they are up and moving around! I bet they loved it! I am going to do this with my kiddos soon. Thanks so much for sharing! I am a new follower!
    Hilary
    Second Grade is Out of This World

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    1. Looking forward to checking out your blog as well!

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  7. Love it! I'm featuring this post on Bagels and Blogs tomorrow. :)

    Donna
    Math Coach’s Corner

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  8. What a great blog! I am constantly amazed at the creativity in all of the teachers out there! I'm a veteran teacher with experience in the upper grades, but was moved to 2nd last year. I didn't like it much the first year, but am loving it this year, and I think that reading blogs and TpT has helped me so much. Keep up the good work. If you get a chance, I'd love for you to check out my blog as well.

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    karen
    LittleSecond-GradeSomebodies

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    1. I will most def. check out your blog! Thanks for stopping by!

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  9. I'm your newest follower. I found you through TBTS!

    TheJugglingTeacher

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