Time is of the Essence

TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE 

CCSS: CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.1.MD.B.3

This week, I have decided to focus my blog on telling time because I have observed a numerous amount of my students unable to tell time using analog. Reason being, technology has negatively influenced children's ability to tell time since they can just read the digital time off the screen of their phones.  When I spoke to other teachers about my concern, they informed me that most, if not all, of their students, cannot tell time as well. This concerns me because the procedural and conceptual fluency is provided to students in elementary school, particularly second or third grade.  Therefore, based on my observations it is obvious that students are not practicing their skills.  

When planning my lessons for the week, I would assign a book about time for each day of the week that I would read to my students prior to the math lesson.  My students and I would find vocabulary relating to telling time and add that to our vocabulary list for the math lesson.  I would provide them with a list of words relating to telling time. Words related to Telling Time

Next, I would use an anchor chart to provide my students with a visual of a clock that breaks down telling time-based on four quarters.  

Next, I would provide my students with rhyming songs about the hour and minute hand since children have a tendency of getting the two confused.

Finally, I will provide my students with worksheets to review the conceptual and procedural fluency of telling time. 

I would then use the judy clock as an exit ticket.  My student's can Turn and Talk with their partners and give each other different times to set up on their clocks. 
Reflection: 
I believe that the resources that I provided to my students in the weekly lesson will provide them with the strategies required in learning how to tell time.  My students will be able to scaffold from one lesson and resource to the