Make telling time meaningful and engaging with 2nd Grade Magic of Math Unit 7: Telling Time! This 2-week unit includes 10 days of ready-to-use math lessons and activities designed to help students develop confidence reading clocks and telling time.

Students progress from telling time to the quarter hour and five minutes to working with time to five-minute intervals and/or the nearest minute. Both options are included so teachers can choose the skills that best match their standards and classroom needs.

Week 1: Quarter Hour & Five Minutes

Students practice:

• Telling time to the quarter hour
• Telling time to five minutes
• Reading analog and digital clocks
• Understanding hour and minute hands
• Using quarter past, half past, and quarter to
• Understanding AM and PM
• Matching clocks with written and digital times

Week 2: Five Minutes & Nearest Minute

Students build on their understanding as they practice:

• Telling time to five minutes
• Telling time to the nearest minute
• Reading and writing times
• Drawing hands on analog clocks
• Ordering times
• Connecting times to daily activities
• Using AM and PM correctly

Several Week 2 activities include two versions so teachers can practice telling time to five minutes or extend learning to the nearest minute.

What's Included

• 10 days of lesson plans
• 10 daily word problems
• Mini-lessons
• Hands-on games and activities
• Interactive notebook activities
• Vocabulary cards
• I Can statements
• Analog and digital clock practice
• Quick assessments
• Multiple activity options for differentiated practice

With activities like Musical Time, Time Kaboom, Time Scoot, Rock Around the Clock, Time Bingo, and A Day in the Life, students get repeated practice with telling time in fun and meaningful ways.

Standards: Aligned to 2nd Grade Common Core Math Standard 2.MD.C.7 and Texas TEKS 2.9G.