Telling Time: Hours and Half Hours
Tell the time to the hour and half past the hour, and draw clock hands to show these times
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“If you point to a clock showing 3 o'clock or half past two, can your child tell you the time — and then draw hands on a blank clock face to show a time you call out?”
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- Activity. Tell the time to the hour and half past the hour, and draw clock hands to show these times
What to notice. Read an analogue clock showing 3 o'clock • Read an analogue clock showing half past 7 • Draw the hour and minute hands on a blank clock face to show a given o'clock or half-past time
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If you point to a clock showing 3 o'clock or half past two, can your child tell you the time — and then draw hands on a blank clock face to show a time you call out?
Tell the time to the hour and half past the hour, and draw clock hands to show these times
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Telling the Time — hour and half-hour practice
Read an analogue clock and choose its digital time. Select level 2, “Read time to the hour and half hour,” then 12 hour clock and Untimed game. This is supplementary clock-reading practice; it does not assess drawing clock hands.
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Ask: “Where is the hour hand at half past seven?” After playing, separately ask the learner to draw hands for 3 o’clock and half past two on blank clock faces. Record their explanation and drawing, not just the game score.
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Read an analogue clock and choose its digital time. Select level 2, “Read time to the hour and half hour,” then 12 hour clock and Untimed game. This is supplementary clock-reading practice; it does not assess drawing clock hands.
Ask: “Where is the hour hand at half past seven?” After playing, separately ask the learner to draw hands for 3 o’clock and half past two on blank clock faces. Record their explanation and drawing, not just the game score.
Free without login in the tested game path. An adult may need to select the level and mode and help read the digital choices. No display ad was visible in the inspected publisher-page screenshot; other game, worksheet and registration links are present. Only a short session was tested; no unlimited-use claim.
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- Read an analogue clock showing 3 o'clock
- Read an analogue clock showing half past 7
- Draw the hour and minute hands on a blank clock face to show a given o'clock or half-past time
“If you point to a clock showing 3 o'clock or half past two, can your child tell you the time — and then draw hands on a blank clock face to show a time you call out?”
Curriculum record
- Type
- Representational
- Subject
- Mathematics
- Domain
- Measurement
- Age range
- Ages 5–6
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