Getting Ready for New Years and Telling Time

Leading up to New Years we started working on telling time, which worked with New Years activities and printables pretty perfectly.

Size sorting with party hats. Link to this printable pack from 3 Dinosaurs is at the bottom. 

Peyton loves his dot markers and they were perfect for this worksheet on selecting the beginning letter for each object.

I used my new laminator for a couple puzzles. They have numbers at the bottom so they work for counting practice too. Jack and Peyton actually enjoyed doing this together a lot and the fireworks can come out again for lots of other themes. 

Peyton is really interested in learning to tell time, so I've been incorporating a lot of clocks into our lessons. We're still working on skip counting so telling time is a bit of a challenge, but he has so much interest in it, it's impossible to put him off. 

This was super fun to make. There's a link to the printable below. The 12 is on the clock and we pasted the other numbers on, then attached the hands. 

Peyton got this clock book for Christmas and the DVD came from the library. He loved both and they provided a nice foundation for what we're learning. The Thomas the Tank Engine: Right on Time book is especially fun. It's interactive so we can move the hands and push the button to hear what time it's set at. It also includes questions on each page and tells you if you set the clock correctly or not for the next part of Thomas's day.

This is another fun resource from the library, Telling Time: How to Tell Time on Digital and Analog Clocks. This doubled as something to work on at reading time, and he was able to read a lot of the words himself. 

I was anxious for something else to use my laminator for so we made this schedule. Peyton loves it. It's been a couple weeks and he still compares it to the clock and uses it to remind me when things are coming up. 

This was a gift from Grandma for Christmas, the All About Today Board. We love it and it works for time telling, following a calendar, and learning about the weather (coming up next!)

Peyton initiates this craft all by himself. He immediately realized that Hickory Dickory Dock is about a clock and telling time and then asked me for the supplies to make a clock. He drew the pendulum on the front and gears on the back. I made lines on the plate for him to write numbers on and cut out the mouse at his request. The whole project was directed by him.


Resources:
Printable Clock from Harcourt School
New Years Pack from 3 Dinosaurs