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Unit 08
Energizers (5 min)
Below you will find a new spin on some energizers you may have already used in your classroom. Feel free to continue to use the other energizers listed in Unit 01 by clicking here: http://bit.ly/2evd1Dc.
STOP THE CLOCK . . Use these links to play a whole class activity of stop the clock. Each link goes to a different level. You can play by controlling the digital times to match the analog clocks as students touch one and touch the place where it goes when showing via the projector.Level 1 hour and half hour: http://www.teachingtime.co.uk/draggames/sthec1.html
Level 2 hour, half hour, quarter past/til: http://www.teachingtime.co.uk/draggames/sthec2.html
Level 3 all of the above to the five minute mark:
http://www.teachingtime.co.uk/draggames/sthec3.htmlLevel 4: time to the minute
http://www.teachingtime.co.uk/draggames/sthec4.html
Opening (5-10 min)
Put times on clock faces before distributing the clock faces to students.
Each student makes a construction paper (analog) watch that shows the same time on the clock face he or she was given.
Students get a sheet with every other classmate's name on it.
Students circulate the classroom and ask others "Can I see the time on your watch?"
Students show one another their watches by standing side by side so they can read each other’s watches from the correct direction.
Students write the correct time on the recording sheet next to their classmate’s name and continue the activity until they have partnered with all other students in the class.
To keep within a 5-10 min window, continue this activity over several days, having students get 3-5 students per day and students can hang on to their "watches" for this activity over several days.
If your class is able to complete the activity fairly quickly, you can put the clock faces on rubber bands or pipe cleaners, and use this activity repeatedly.
Optional Unit 08 Activities
Hooked on Time
When teaching kids to tell time past the hour determining the correct hour can be where the struggle comes in. Many children get confused about the hour when reading the time on an analog clock. Especially when the hour hand falls between two numbers. Yikes.
Here’s how to solve that problem: Have your students “make a hook”.
Start with the concrete by making a manipulative with a pipe cleaner. Cut each one in half or in quarters depending on the size of your practice clocks. Gently bend the pieces to form a hook that looks like a backward J. I do this ahead of time to make sure they are the right size. Place the straight end on the hour hand. The hook then points to the correct hour that the minutes have passed. This is such a simple, but effective trick for helping students learn to determine the correct hour. As students gain mastery they can then begin to use their index finger to trace an imaginary hook starting on the hour hand and stopping on the number just before it.
For more information or free downloads click here:
https://aroundthekampfire.com/2018/02/teaching-kids-tell-time-past-the-hour.html
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Musical Clocks
This idea was inspired by What the Teacher Wants. Students are given a blank clock and recording sheet. They draw hands on their clock (hour and minute) and leave it on their desk. Music begins and the students dance around, moving from desk to desk. When the music stops, students record whose desk they stopped at and the time on their clock. Repeat until they have recorded every student’s time. At the end of the activity they turn in their clock and recording sheet so the teacher can assess their time-telling skills.
I spy Time
Time for . . .
- For practice telling time at home, have students record the time they do a special or unique activity on an analog clock and figure out the duration. Examples could include: basketball practice, dance class, watching their favorite TV show or eating a banana. They record the times their 3 activities start and end the printable below.
Literature Connection
Just a Minute: Hello Math Reader
Bats around the Clock
It's fun to tell time as you dance around the clock!
Put on your dancing shoes and get ready to boogie! It's American Batstand - a twelve-hour rock and roll extravaganza with Click Dark as your host. Decked in go-go boots and bobby sox, the buoyant bats bebop their way around the clock. And there's a special guest appearance at the end!
Game Time
Keep an eye on the clock as the Huskies and the Falcons gear up for their championship soccer match. Weeks, days, hours, minutes, and seconds--it's all game time!
1. Guided Math
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1SGRoqTRKjfpS4WmAqg4E4p9_PhcfzHNa_ykLfnU2cOY
3. Review/Preview:
Two suggestions for this station:
- Have students trace their foot on construction paper. Then have them use two different types of units to measure their foot, write their measurement using the appropriate units and explain why the measurement is different. (pictures available here: http://bit.do/d8VZB
- Give students a recording sheet (free download available here http://bit.do/d8VZN ) Work in pairs, with each student having their own recording sheet but different units of measure. Students compare their findings.
Fluency:
Adding/subtracting with regrouping with the algorithm practice
generating word problems from equations with regrouping (both addition and subtraction)
Counting coins practice
Closing (5 min): Relate back to learning and language objectives
- Class Journal
- Personal journal
- Partner talks
- Self assessment