Telling time can be challenging for young learners, but with repetition, practice using 1st grade time telling worksheets, and support they’ll conquer this fundamental elementary skill.
As students begin first grade, they build on what they already learned about time in kindergarten. Telling time on a clock face is still an essential part of our daily lives and active part of understanding the curriculum, which is why it’s a big focus throughout this school year.
How Do You Teach Time To 1st Graders?
As you plan your unit on telling time for your first graders, look for great ways to practice time concepts and activities to help kids stay engaged. Children are generally visual and hands-on learners, so the more you can incorporate games, multimedia, and activities the more their new time skills will solidify. The best tactic for teaching time is to have lots of functional and enjoyable practice sheets on-hand that show different hand placements on the clock face.
In partnership with Teach Simple, whose marketplace is full of educational materials created by actual teachers (plus 50% of all revenues go to them), I’ve put together a comprehensive list of 1st grade time worksheets for you to introduce to your students.
These time worksheets help students distinguish different times on analog versus digital clocks, round time to the nearest hour, half hour, or five minutes, tell time by the sun, tell time through reading comprehension, and more.
Best 1st Grade Time Telling Worksheets
Common Core Activity: Bee on Time
This worksheet has activity cards that match analog times to digital times. It includes 1 product file that is editable so you can use this worksheet again and again to reinforce time concepts.
It’s Fall: Telling Time
Build on the time skills from kindergarten with this fall-themed telling time worksheet set. This product reinforces concepts around telling time on an analog clock.
Nearest Hour Clock Worksheet
Have students work on the basics with this practice sheet that asks them to tell time to the nearest hour.
Showing Time Worksheet
This worksheet asks students to draw the hands of hours on a clock on blank faces to create different clocks that show time to the hour.
Time for Sunshine to the Hour Clock Activity
This worksheet helps students understand how the position of the sun changes with the hours on the clock.
Telling Time: Spring Ahead – 18 worksheets
With these time worksheets, learners can strengthen their skills in telling time to the hour. They can also learn about Daylight Savings Time and how to spring ahead one hour. This product allows for differentiated learning with time worksheets to accommodate 3 different learning styles. It includes 18 time worksheets and an answer key.
Telling Time Matching Worksheet
This worksheet helps students tell time to the half hour by matching digital times their analog counterparts.
Don’t Be Tardy for the Party Telling Time to the Half Hour Activity
This fun party activity helps students learn to tell time so they will never be late! It focuses on the skill of telling time to the half hour.
Time and Measurement Printable Workbook
This workbook provides practice for the essential skills of time measurement (plus some additional measurement activities as well). It includes a 25-page printable packet that has time worksheets that focus on time to the quarter past the hour, to the half hour, time word problems, and more.
Time to the Five Minutes Worksheet
This worksheet is designed to help students learn to tell time to the five minute mark. It’s a great sheet to pull out for independent work or for early finishers.
What Time Is It to 5 Minutes? Activity
This worksheet helps students learn to tell time to the nearest 5 minutes, using a.m. and p.m. Students then play a game of dominoes to match analog and digital clocks based on time.
Prime-Time Telling Time Game
This fun prime-time telling worksheet combines practice with competition. Students are asked to interact with each other and use their cards to make their way around the clock. This game helps students learn essential skills in rounding to the nearest hour.
What is the Time? Worksheet
Challenge students to think about time in relation to the sun. Each box on this worksheet asks students to match the time on the clock to the position of the sun in the sky.
What Time is This? Reading Comprehension Worksheet
Combine reading comprehension and telling time in one worksheet! Students can read through the 6 different scenarios to figure out what time it is in the beginning of each one. This is great for partner work.
How to Tell Time Workbook
This comprehensive workbook by Pixa Education includes 42 pages of telling time worksheets with activities like:
- Multiple choice questions
- Fill-in-the-blank questions
- Drawing hands on a clock face activities
Spin it to Win it Telling Time Activity
This spinning game comes with two different versions of time-telling games. Both are easy to print out and include clock faces and circle tokens; all you need to provide are paper clips! After the games, there are time worksheets for students to complete to finish up their time telling practice for the day.
What Time Is It? Task Cards and Response Sheet
This is a set of 24 QR task cards with response sheets and answer keys. Each task card includes a random time on an analog clock. Some times are on the quarter hour or half hour, while most are on 5 minute intervals.
Your students will look at the clock, read time, and record the time on the appropriate response sheet. Then the student will scan the QR Code to check their answer.
Elapsed Time: Grades 1–3
This workbook provides a variety of fun activities designed to help children understand the concept of time. Emphasis is placed on identifying the position of numerals and hands on a clock face, telling time to the minute, arranging times in sequence, and calculating times before and after given times. It includes 1 PDF with 48 ready-to-print pages for students at different skill levels.
Spring Telling Time: Snail Time & It’s Flower Time
These spring-themed telling time worksheets will help your students engage with time to the hour and half-hour with cute flower and snail illustrations. Snail Time asks children to help each snail reach its mushroom by matching the clocks to the times. It’s Flower Time has students draw the small hands of the clocks.
Get Ready To Tell Time Workbook
This tablet-sized workbook from School Zone helps first and second graders learn how to tell time using real-world story, word problems, and more activities that give kids practice in reading both analog and digital clocks.
All About TIme Animated Math Video Lesson and Worksheet
This animated math video lesson is all about telling time. Students will love this engaging and interactive classroom video plus the activities and time worksheets that follow that take them step-by-step through how to tell time.
Math Game: Time to the Minute
This fun math resource is focused on telling time to the minute in an engaging math SCOOT game format. There are a variety of questions on each page to provide a range of complexity and exposure to a variety of problems. It includes 22 printable pages in PDF format and digital Google Slides.
Telling Time and Parts of a Clock Printable Time Worksheets for Kids
This telling time bundle contains activities and time worksheets to help young children tell time, identify parts of a clock, make calendars and more.
This 7-page digital PDF file has the following activities:
- Parts of a clock
- Telling time Play-Doh mat
- Write the time on the clock
- Identify time intervals
- Identify the time on the clock
- Time conversion chart
- Telling time worksheet
Earth Day Telling Time
These Earth Day-themed 1st grade time worksheets will help students practice telling time to the hour and the half-hour.
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About the Author
Jen Skolsky has a background in English, Psychology, and Creative Writing. She has taught for many years in international education, including ESL for all ages, middle school literature, speech and debate; high school AP Psychology, AP Language, AP Literature; university level Academic Writing, and Chinese Medicine Theory. She now works in marketing and book publishing.
