Telling Time in Spanish Worksheets

About this resource

What's inside this resource

Introduction

This set of Decir la Hora (Telling Time) Worksheets helps students practice reading and understanding time using both analog and digital clocks. Through a variety of engaging exercises, learners develop confidence in recognizing hours, half hours, and quarter hours while improving their overall time-telling skills.

What’s Included:

Reading analog clocks and writing the correct time

Telling time in hour, half-hour, and quarter-hour increments

Reading digital clocks and recording the time

Matching clocks with the correct time

Identifying AM and PM

Ordering times from earliest to latest

Calculating elapsed time between two times

Converting hours to minutes

Converting minutes to hours

Practical time-telling activities for skill development

Grades / Ages:

Ideal for Grades 1–4

Implementation Format:

Perfect for math centres, classroom practice, small group activities, independent work, morning work, or homework.

Answer Key:

Not included

File Type:

PDF (Non-editable)

Number of Pages:

10 pages total

License:

Paid product for personal or single-classroom use only

Tags to Use:

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In the classroom

Teaching tips & learning objectives

Learning objectives

Student can read an analog clock and write the time to the hour, half hour, and quarter hour in Spanish.
Student can distinguish AM from PM for a given time.
Student can calculate elapsed time between a start and end time.

Teaching tips

Assign the seven pages in sequence, since each activity builds on the prior one's precision (hour, then half hour, then quarter hour, then digital time).
Use the matching activity (clock to time) as a quick formative check before moving to the elapsed-time word problems, which require more precise reading.
Pair with a physical or digital clock model for students who are still learning the vocabulary alongside the skill.

Skills covered

Analog time-reading — students read clock faces and write times to the hour, half hour, and quarter hour in Spanish.
AM/PM discrimination — students label given times as 'AM' or 'PM' based on the example format shown.
Elapsed-time calculation — students compute the duration between a start and end time, e.g. 10:00 AM to 2:00 PM.

Good to know

Questions teachers ask about this resource

Since the instructions and clock labels are entirely in Spanish, what audience is this worksheet set designed for?

The vocabulary and phrasing (e.g., 'Escriba la hora,' 'Identifique si la hora es AM o PM') target either a dual-language/immersion classroom teaching math in Spanish or a world-language class reinforcing number and time vocabulary; the Name/Class header line remains in English, suggesting a bilingual classroom setting.

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Curriculum

Standards, concepts & topics

Standards

3. MD.A.1 — Tell and write time to the nearest minute and measure time intervals in minutes. Solve word problems involving addition and subtraction of time intervals in minutes, e.g., by representing the problem on a number line diagram.
1.MD.B.3 — Tell and write time in hours and half-hours using analog and digital clocks.
2.MD.A.7 — Tell and write time from analog and digital clocks to the nearest five minutes, using a.m. and p.m.

Core concepts

telling time
elapsed time
unit conversion
Spanish vocabulary

Topics

Decir la hora worksheets telling time worksheets Spanish Spanish math worksheets leer la hora actividades telling time practice analog clock worksheets elapsed time worksheets

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