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Skills Covered

  • Read an analog clock and write the time on a digital clock
  • Tell time to the hour, half hour, quarter hour and five minutes
  • Write a time in words: o'clock and half past
  • Draw the hands for a digital time
  • Match analog and digital clocks that show the same time
  • Choose a.m. or p.m. for times of the day

How to Use This Pack

Seven pages that move between the two kinds of clock. Pages 1 to 3 have twelve analog clocks each, with a digital clock under each one to write the time: whole hours on page 1, half and quarter hours on page 2, and five-minute times on page 3. Page 4 shows twelve digital times to write in words (one o'clock, half past four), with the first one done and the number words in a box. Page 5 turns it around: draw the hands for twelve digital times. Page 6 matches six analog clocks to six digital clocks with lines, and page 7 asks whether everyday times, like eating lunch at 12:15 or going to bed at 8:30, are a.m. or p.m.

In the Classroom

Start with page 1 for the whole class, then hand out pages 2 and 3 as students are ready: they climb from hours to five minutes. Page 6 makes a quick exit ticket. Before page 7, ask what the class does at 8:30 in the morning and at 8:30 at night, and why the clock alone cannot tell them apart.

At Home

If your home has both kinds of clock, such as a wall clock and a microwave or phone, ask your child to read both and check that they say the same time.

Tips for Success

  • The short hand tells the hour; the long hand tells the minutes
  • On a digital clock the hour comes before the colon and the minutes after it
  • Count the minutes by fives from the 12
  • Half past is :30, quarter past is :15, quarter to is :45
  • a.m. is from midnight to noon; p.m. is from noon to midnight

Common Core Standards Alignment

This pack supports the following Common Core State Standards for Mathematics:

  • 1.MD.B.3 Read and record times to the hour and half hour on clock faces and digital displays.
  • 2.MD.C.7 Read and record clock times in 5-minute steps on clock faces and digital displays, and use a.m. and p.m. correctly.

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Analog and Digital Clocks: Telling Time Practice

1st – 2nd Grade

A 7-page analog and digital clocks pack for 1st and 2nd grade. Read twelve analog clocks and write each time on a digital clock, to the hour, then to the half and quarter hour, then to five minutes; write digital times in words (o'clock and half past); draw the hands to show twelve digital times; match analog clocks to digital clocks; and circle a.m. or p.m. for everyday times like lunch and bedtime. Answer keys included.

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What’s Included

  • 7 worksheets, each with a matching answer key (14 pages)
  • 36 analog clocks to read onto digital clocks: hours, half and quarter hours, five minutes
  • Times in words, and twelve digital times to draw
  • Analog to digital matching, and a.m. or p.m. for everyday times
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