Happy New Year Thematic Unit: Featuring Telling Time to the Hour
Although learning to tell time is not a math skill, and is not included as a Common Core Standard in kindergarten, the teaching of clocks as a tool for mathematical thinking is crucial.
A clock is made of the numbers 1-12 laid out in numerical order. This alone makes the clock a handy aid when teaching counting and cardinality. Giving a student opportunity to work with clocks help develop number recognition, sequencing, and numerical order.
I think I have introduced clocks the first day back from winter break for the entire 25 years of my career (thank you Ruth Hepworth). Waiting for Monday morning, right at my carpet/calendar area, I have my little student size Judy Clocks ready to go and my copy of Hap Palmer’s, Paper Clocks ready for the play button to be pushed. After we have manipulated the clocks to the song a couple of times, I love to have the students construct their own clocks to take home and show off their new skill of telling time to the hour.
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Here are a few videos that I like to use to supplement my teaching of time. The Singlish version of Hickory Dickory Dock is my all-time favorite!
You may wish to check out our Happy New Year Unit that focuses on ways to measure time: Clocks and Calendars. Here are a few sample pages.
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Happy New Year Thematic Unit is filled with Curriculum Essentials for Math, Literacy, and More: Featuring Clocks, Calendar and New Year's Fun
New Year unit is divided into areas of literature, music, art, literacy, math, independent practice, creative writing, word wall, and guided reading. The activities are clearly written, easy to use, and need limited amounts of preparation.
Literacy Activities:
New Year Lotto: Matching Upper & Lowercase Letters
The Party Palace: Blending & Segmenting Words
Happy New Year: Naming Letter Sounds
New Year Raceway: Reading Sightwords Fluently
Math Activities:
New Year Clocks: Matching Time to The Hour
Moving Hands: Manipulating a Clock to Tell Time
New Year's Bear Party: Joining Groups of Objects
Happy Friday Dance: Constructing & Using a Calendar
Countdown: Counting Backwards From a Given Number 0-20
Independent Practice
New Year Balloons: Reading Color Words
What Time Is It? Reading Analog Clocks and Writing Times Digitally
Fix The Clock: Drawing Hands on an Analog Clock
Firework Number Match: Matching Numerals 11-20 to a 10+Number
January Calendar: Trace & Write Numerals
Party Time: Matching Upper and Lowercase Letters
Art Projects
Party Hat & Streamers
Cone New Year's Hat
Baby New Year/GrandFather Time Flip-it
Writing Prompts/Word Wall
Happy New Year
What Will Happen This Year?
Happy New Year Word Wall
Songs/Fingerplays
A New Year
Months of the Year Song
Days of the Week Song
Guided Reading Books
Happy New Year
Tick Tock
Winter Indépendant Writing Center Activities
Winter Sport Reading Intervention Games
Winter Guided Sight Word Readers Set 1
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Offering students a paper book that can be colored and taken home offers students authentic purpose for the reading instruction and opportunity to practice techniques at home. Students love these delightful stories that are ready to read on their level. The clip art is delightful!
Set Includes 9 Books
Winter Fun
Winter (two levels)
Snow
The Mitten (two levels)
Happy New Year
How To Build A Snowman
My Snowmobile
Cocoa
Ice Skating
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