Lesson Plan
Telling Time With My Day
Writing meets math in this lesson that gives students practice telling time to the hour using the familiar context of their daily schedule. Use alone or with **What Time is It?**
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Objectives
Academic
Students will be able to connect time to events and tell time to the hour using an analog clock.
Language
Students will be able to describe the events in their day with past tense verbs using sentence frames and visual supports.
Introduction
(5 minutes)- Display a demonstration analog clock with mechanical arms that show how the hour and minute hands move together.
- Create an anchor chart titled "What Clocks Show," and ask students to share with a partner what clocks show and how they are used.
- Choose a few students to share out examples. For example, "Clocks show what time school starts," or "Clocks show when it is bedtime."
- Tell students that the demonstration clock is an example of an analog clock, a type of clock that shows the numbers from 1-12 and has moving hands.
- Ask students what shape the analog clock is.