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.

Hope and Wade King

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