Christmas Telling Time, Grades 1-3

Make learning to tell time feel like Christmas morning with this 60-page telling time pack for grades 1 to 3. Children begin with clocks to the hour and build their skills step by step: half past, quarter past and quarter to, and then times to five minutes. Along the way they read analog clocks, match digital times to clock faces, draw the hands on empty clocks, and write the time on the line, so every new skill is practiced in several different ways.

Once the basics are secure, the pack moves on to elapsed time. Children find end times, start times, and how long an activity lasts, and they work out times 30 minutes before and after a given clock time. Christmas word problems put those skills to work with Santa wrapping gifts, cookies baking, a school choir, a parade, and a train trip. A page on A.M. and P.M. helps children connect clock times to morning, afternoon, and evening, and a Christmas Day schedule page lets them draw the hands for waking up, opening gifts, lunch, playing in the snow, dinner, and a bedtime story.

The pack also includes a clock hunt game, a draw-the-hands challenge, a write-the-time challenge, a true-or-false clock detective page, Santa's timetable, review pages for every skill, a put-the-clocks-in-order activity, a what-time-will-it-be page, and a Christmas countdown. Two ten-question quizzes and a final challenge round off the practice. Teacher-only answer keys cover every page, and the pack ends with a Christmas Time Star certificate to celebrate. No preparation is needed: just print and go.