Telling Time

Do you have digital clocks all over your house so your third grader will know what time it is? You don't have to anymore! The children are becoming time experts. Right now most children can tell time to 15 minutes. We are practicing telling time to the minute.

Here are some tricky parts you can practice together:

1. When it is half past the hour (30 minutes past), the hour hand is half way to the next hour. (Often children will see that it's 3:30 when the hour hand hasn't reached the 3 yet.)

2. The kids are really good at saying it's 9:45, or 10:50. But when I ask how many minutes until _______. It get's trickier. We are learning that it's 10 minutes before 11:00 when it's 10:50. You can practice counting how many minutes until ________ at home.

After break, we'll practice elapsed time!