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Skills Covered

  • Put the numbers 1 to 12 in their places on a clock
  • Tell the hour hand from the minute hand
  • Move the hands to show a time
  • Set a time on a digital clock: hour, then minutes
  • Use a.m. for the morning and p.m. for the afternoon and night
  • Read the minutes around a clock by fives

How to Use This Pack

Five pages to cut, glue and build. Page 1 is a clock face with an hour hand and a minute hand to cut out: push a paper fastener through the marked centers and the hands turn. On page 2 students cut out the numbers 1 to 12 and glue each into its box on the clock face, then add the hands (the answer key shows where every number goes). Page 3 is a minutes clock with 00, 05, 10 and so on around the outside. Page 4 is a digital clock with four windows and a slit above and below each one, with steps for putting it together and four times to set, and page 5 holds two sets of number strips: hours 1 to 12, tens of minutes 0 to 5, ones 0 to 9, and a.m. or p.m.

In the Classroom

Print the clock pages on card stock and give each student a paper fastener. Make the clocks together, then call out times for students to show and hold up. Pair the analog clock with the digital clock: one student sets a time on one, a partner shows the same time on the other.

At Home

Build the clock together and keep it on the fridge. Each morning, set it to the time your child gets up, and each evening to bedtime, then compare it to a real clock.

Tips for Success

  • Print on card stock so the clocks last
  • The short hand is the hour hand; the long hand is the minute hand
  • Glue 12, 3, 6 and 9 first, then the numbers between them
  • On the digital clock, set the hour first, then the tens of minutes, then the ones

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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Make Your Own Clock: Cut-Out Hands and a Digital Clock

K – 2nd Grade

A 5-page make-your-own-clock pack for kindergarten to 2nd grade. Cut out a clock face and its hour and minute hands and join them with a paper fastener, glue the numbers 1 to 12 into the boxes on a clock face, make a minutes clock with 00 to 55 around the outside, and build a digital clock with sliding number strips for the hours, the minutes and a.m. or p.m. Answer key for the glue-the-numbers clock included.

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What’s Included

  • 5 cut-and-make pages, with an answer key for the glue-the-numbers clock (6 pages)
  • A clock face with cut-out hour and minute hands
  • A clock face with boxes and number tiles to glue in
  • A minutes clock, and a digital clock with sliding number strips and a.m. / p.m.
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