Time

Once students gain time sense, it's time to learn how to calculate time passage.  (Most of the time passage worksheets below deal with time passage and analog clocks -- they may be too much for students who really struggle with analog clocks.  For some students, it might be wiser to teach time passage without the additional complication of analog clocks!).

Telling time is one of the most difficult things to teach children! Approach the process step by step and with patience!

Start by making sure the student understands time.  The first step in learning to tell time is understanding how time works generally.  For instance:

Another aspect of time that young students need to master is the calendar.  They should know the names of the months and what order the months go in.

Before students can learn to tell time or calculate time passage, they need to have some notion of what time is and how it works.

One of the best ways to help students to develop a sense of time is to have them think about their own lives and orient their activities to time.

Understanding time, learning to calculate the passage of time, and being able to estimate time are all critical life and math skills.

Related to that work is understanding the days of the week:

• How many days are in a week?
• What are the days of the week?
• Which days are school days?
• Which days are weekend days?

Because spelling can be so challenging when it comes to days of the week, it's helpful to have practice that requires students to write out the days and practice that does not.