Grades 3–4
Read a Daily Schedule
A camp day schedule and eight questions: what time does swimming start, how long is the hike, how long is the whole day?
Math worksheet · Telling time and elapsed time
Time in Words
Sixteen times written in words, like “twenty past four” or “ten to nine”. Kids write each one as a digital time.
- Grade level
- Grades 2–3
- Time
- About 15 minutes
- Answer key
- Yes, page 2 of the PDF
- Kids practice
- Reading analog clocks, Telling time, Elapsed time, Calendar skills
What kids do
“Read the time in words. Write it with numbers, like 4:20.”
Printed on the sheet:
- 1 twenty past one
- 2 twenty-five past five
- 3 twenty to twelve
- 6 quarter past seven
- 7 twenty to four
- 8 twenty past three
- 9 five past eight
- 10 quarter to twelve
Teacher tip
Teach “past” for the right side of the clock and “to” for the left side.
How to use it
- Keep a geared demo clock at the front and model each type of problem.
- Color the hour hand and the minute hand differently on the first two clocks.
- Do the first problem together under a document camera, then let kids finish on their own.
Watch for
Reading the hour hand as the next hour when it is just before it, like 2:50 read as 3:50.
Talk about it
- How long until lunch? How did you work it out?
- Which problem was the hardest? What made it hard?
Take it further
Make a paper plate clock with brads for the hands.
US Letter, prints well in black and white. Free for home and classroom use: print as many copies as you need.
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1st grade
Telling Time to the Hour
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