Time to the hour activities for your kindergarten math centers! WOW! This pack has 20+ hands-on telling time activities, so every child gets excited to learn about time to the hour with a wide variety of engaging centers.

Children match analog clocks (clocks with hands) to digital clocks (clocks with numbers only) and written times, play telling time BINGO and a board game, search for times in I Spy pictures and graph what they find. Clip cards, puzzles and cover up games give children lots of quick practice reading the hour.

With this time to the hour pack, you get

• 20+ time to the hour activities in one pack
• Analog and digital clock matching games and puzzles
• Clip cards, cover up games and a telling time board game
• A play dough clock mat and a dry erase digital watch mat
• Every activity in both color and black and white

Print, prep once and your telling time centers are ready to go!

What's Included

• 4 Sets of Clip Cards
• Time to the Hour Link Up (match clocks and time formats)
• 2 Time to the Hour Matching Games (analog and digital clocks)
• 3 Cover Up! Grid Time to the Hour Games
• 2 Spin & Cover Time to the Hour Games
• Telling Time to the Hour Board Game
• 2 Sets of "Write the Time" Cards
• 3 Sets of Time to the Hour Puzzles
• Pocket Chart Time to the Hour Sorting Sets
• Time to the Hour Play Dough Clock Mat
• Time to the Hour Dry Erase Digital Watch Mat
• 2 Time to the Hour I Spy Graphing Sets
• 4 Spin & Graph Time Sets
• Time to the Hour BINGO Class Set
• 12 Find the Time Cover Up Games
• Pattern Grid Games
• All activities in both color and black/white, so you can use this pack no matter what your printing abilities are

Why Teachers Love It

• Telling time all in one place: Games, puzzles, clip cards, mats and graphing sets cover time to the hour from every angle.
• Analog and digital together: Children practice reading both kinds of clocks and matching them to each other.
• So many ways to practice: With 20+ activities, children can practice the same skill without the centers feeling the same.
• Hands-on learning: The play dough clock mat and dry erase watch mat let children build and write times themselves.
• Whole-group fun: The BINGO class set and pocket chart sorting sets work well for whole-class practice.
• Easy to print: Every activity comes in color and black and white.

Skills Students Practice

Primary Academic Skills

• Telling time to the hour: Children read the hour on analog and digital clocks.
• Matching time formats: Link ups, matching games and puzzles connect analog clocks, digital clocks and written times.
• Writing the time: "Write the Time" cards and the dry erase watch mat have children record each time.
• Clock parts: The play dough clock mat helps children notice the numbers and hands on a clock face.
• Number recognition: Children read and write the numbers 1-12 on clock faces.
• Graphing: I Spy graphing and Spin & Graph sets have children count times and record them on a graph.
• Visual discrimination: Find the Time and I Spy activities ask children to search carefully for one time.

Secondary Life & Learning Skills

• Taking turns
• Following directions
• Maintaining attention
• Using mathematical language
• Waiting during group play
• Working independently

How to Use It

Step 1: Choose the time to the hour activities you want for the week. Print them in color or black and white, laminate the mats and cards for durability and cut apart the cards and puzzles.

Step 2: Introduce telling time with the pocket chart sorting sets or the play dough clock mat. Model how to read the hour on an analog clock and a digital clock.

Step 3: Set the games, puzzles and clip cards out in your math centers. Play time to the hour BINGO with the whole class and rotate in new activities to keep the practice fresh.

Easy Differentiation

Children come to telling time with very different skills. These activities are easy to adjust for each child.

For Children Who Need More Support

• Start with analog clocks only before adding digital times
• Use the play dough clock mat to build a clock together
• Offer fewer cards in the matching games and puzzles
• Say each time aloud together before matching

For On-Level Practice

• Use the activities as written in math centers
• Play the telling time board game or a Spin & Cover game with a partner
• Match analog clocks, digital clocks and written times in the link up
• Write the time on the "Write the Time" cards

For an Extra Challenge

• Write the time on the dry erase digital watch mat without a model
• Compare the graphs and tell which time has more and which has fewer
• Have children show a time on the play dough clock mat for a partner to read
• Connect each hour to a part of the school day

For Speech, OT, ELL or Special Education Support

• Use a simple sentence frame such as "It is 3 o'clock"
• Practice time words such as hour, clock, hand and o'clock
• Build fine motor skills with clip cards, play dough and dry erase markers
• Let children point to or place the matching card when speaking is hard
• Give extra processing time and model each activity first

Perfect For

• Kindergarten math centers
• Small groups
• Partner games
• Whole-group BINGO
• Pocket chart practice
• Intervention
• Early finishers
• Homeschool
• Substitute plans

Standards

Telling time to the hour is a 1st grade standard in Common Core, the TEKS (Math, adopted 2012) and the Virginia Math SOL (2023), so these activities give kindergarteners a head start. The graphing and number activities support kindergarten standards too:

Common Core State Standards

• CCSS 1.MD.B.3: Tell and write time in hours and half-hours using analog and digital clocks. These activities focus on the hour.
• CCSS K.CC.A.3: Write numbers 0-20, such as the hours on the "Write the Time" cards.
• CCSS K.MD.B.3: Classify objects into categories and count how many are in each, as in the I Spy graphing sets.

Texas TEKS

• TEKS Math 1.7.E: Tell time to the hour and half hour using analog and digital clocks.
• TEKS Math K.8.B: Use data to create real-object and picture graphs.
• TEKS Math K.8.C: Draw conclusions from real-object and picture graphs.

Virginia SOL

• VA SOL Math 1.MG.3: Tell time to the hour and match the time on an analog clock to a digital time.
• VA SOL Math K.PS.1.f: Organize and represent a data set using pictures to form a simple picture graph.

Add the Time to the Hour Pack | Kindergarten Math Centers to your cart and have 20+ hands-on telling time activities ready for your math centers. Print, play and watch your kindergarteners read the clock with confidence!

This pack is part of the Year Long Kindergarten Math Growing Bundle: Check out the Year Long Kindergarten Math Growing Bundle here

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