 Hi today, I'm going to talk about one way I teach time to my kindergarten students The first thing I do is find a clock that's got second hand Minute hands and our hands obviously The next thing I do is I mark off the minutes By the well the designated minute part right So that my kids can see when we're counting your we count by fives we count the minutes It also makes it easier for them when they're first learning. So that's one thing we do and we practice first We'll just go around and count by fives. So you kind of need to know how to count by fives first So we'll count five ten fifteen twenty twenty five thirty thirty five forty forty five fifty fifty five And then I tell them the double zero at the top means o'clock. That means the top of the hour The next thing I talk about is how a clock is divided if you go from the 12 to the 6 Each side represents a half an hour or 30 minutes If you divide it from top to bottom and then across then each quarter Means 15 minutes and when someone says it's a quarter past 12 That means it's in a 15 minute increment, which is probably the hardest skill for them The first thing I teach always is by the hour and so what I'll do is I'll maneuver the hand So for example, I'll talk about the big hand is up points to the minutes So right now it's pointing to the 12 so it's o'clock the little hand is the hour hand It moves slower than the minute hand and it will tell you the hour So you always say the hour first and then the minutes and then finally You have this long red hand, which is the second hand which moves the fastest for the kids to watch and It's you don't say it when you read the time But it's good for them to judge the amount of time like how long is a minute So I would have them started, you know in the red hand second hand gets to the 12 I'd say okay, let's watch it. We're gonna watch that red hand go around for 60 seconds because 60 seconds equal one minute But again, the first thing I do is I teach time to the hour So I'll say okay now we'll look at this the little hand is pointing the ones I'll say one first and the big hand is pointing to the top of the hour the 12 So means it's o'clock. So what time is it? It's one o'clock and then I'd have the kids repeat We'll go this way. So I'll do it again. I'll show it. What time is it now? Let's look we'll look the little hands pointing to the two The big hand is pointing to the top of the hour o'clock 12. So it is Two o'clock. So that's how one way that I teach time to my kindergarten students