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In this book, you will:
learn about telling time.
discover new words.
answer fun questions.
play a time-telling game.
find more time activities at the back of the book.
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The sun ris 9 3 Nap time 9 3
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Time to ge s. 8 4 8 4
t dressed! 7 6 5 7 6 5
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st time 8 4 Playtime
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Dinnertim 8 4
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Time to go 7 6 5
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We know it is nighttime
when the sun goes down
and the stars come out.
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like ok
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One night you can look up in the sky and see the moon,
bright and full. As the nights go by, the moon seems
to grow smaller. After many nights, you cannot see it at
ou all. Then it grows full again. This is another way we know
d id y as
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time is passing.
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The time between two full moons is about four weeks.
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This is a sundial.
The sundial was one of
the first ways of telling time.
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alarm clock
Tick-tock, tick-tock. The clock
grandfather is always ticking away the time!
clock
digital clock
Here is a clock with a yellow face. As time goes by, the hands on the clock move from
The clock has two hands and twelve numbers. number to number. On this clock, the big hand is
The little hand is red and the big hand is blue. pointing to 12. The little hand is pointing to 3.
This means that the time is exactly 3 o’clock.
The little hand always tells us what hour it is.
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When the little hand starts at twelve and moves twice Every day of the week has a name.
past all the numbers on the clock face, we know that
a whole day and night have gone by. A new day begins!
Sunday
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
What
When all seven days have d
the w ay of
eek is
it
today
passed, a week has gone by. ?
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There are about four weeks in every month. The months have names too.
April May
March
February June
July
January
When all twelve
months have
passed, a year
has gone by.
A year from
now, you will be
November one year older.
October
What
August September is you
What rite
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? Why
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Calendars help us
remember holidays,
birthdays, and other
important dates.
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re
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use?
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Here is a riddle.
What is it?
TIME!
Minutes, hours, and days.
It makes the seasons Days, weeks, and months.
change. It makes you Time is always passing!
grow older.
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T IM E How Long Is a Minute? book pages. You can also decorate the paper
plate if you want to. Use crayons, colored
You’ll need a clock with a second pens, and stickers to make your design.
dawn (dawn)
GLOSSARY
the beginning of the day, when the sun rises and the
world becomes light
1 hand or a stopwatch for this
activity. Pick an activity that you
would like to try to do for a whole
minute—like hopping, drawing, singing. Then
Next, on a colorful piece of thick construction
paper, draw two pointers, or hands, for the
clock. The little hand will tell what hour it is.
have a friend time you. Your friend should The big hand will show the minutes. Carefully
give you a “go!” signal to begin and say stop cut out the clock hands, or have a grown-up
digital clock (DIJ it uhl clok) a clock that shows the time in when exactly one minute has passed. cut them out for you. You will need a fastener
to attach the ends of the pointing hands to the
numbers instead of by hands or pointers that move Were you able to do your activity for the whole center of the clock face. An adult can buy
around a clock face minute? If not, how many seconds did you do small fasteners called “brads” at an office
it? Now, try again, doing a different activity, supply store. Stick a brad through the two
maybe swinging your arm back and forth. This hands and through the exact center of the
hourglass (OUR glass) an instrument for measuring time your friend will tell you when to start but paper plate, then fasten it on the other side.
time that is made of glass, with two round won’t tell you when the minute is up. Just stop
doing your activity when you think one minute Now you are ready to have fun telling time.
compartments connected by a thin tube. has passed. How close did you get? Get together with a friend or family member
Sand or water trickles from the top and quiz each other. Ask, for example, “What
compartment to the bottom compartment in Clock Count time do you get up?” Have the other person
show the answer on the clock. Take turns
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an hour’s time. How many ways of telling the time asking and answering time questions.
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Count how many clocks you see in
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or started in an instant, often used for clocks.) Do they all show the same time? What
timing races or other events about other ways of telling time? Can you find
an egg timer? A calendar? An alarm clock?
An hourglass in a board game? A sundial?
sundial (SUN dy uhl) an object that tells time by the position of a Which room in your house has the most ways
shadow made by the sun of telling time?
How Long Is a Minute? If you don’t have a stopwatch, you’ll need a clock with a second
hand for this activity. Let the children pick what they want to do or suggest something, like
hopping, drawing, humming, singing. Before beginning, let them watch the second hand sweep
around once so that they can get a sense of how long a minute is. Another fun and easy way for
children to guess when a minute is up is to have them simply raise their hand or close their eyes
until they think a minute has gone by. No matter when they stop, tell them exactly how much time
has passed.
Clock Count. Make a game out of hunting for timepieces around the house. You can
accompany your younger children and give hints or point out timepieces they overlook. As an
additional activity, you might ask an older child to make a list of how many timepieces are in
each room, then add up the total. Before or after this activity, you can show them an analog and
a digital clock and explain how they work. Looking at the two clocks side by side will help them
grasp the difference.
Paper Plate Clock Face. If necessary, help your child put the clock parts together. It might
also be a good idea to have an actual clock face on hand to use as a model while he or she is
working on the project. While you and your child are assembling the clock, you can be
reviewing the numbers on the clock face. As suggested in the activity directions on the previous
page, asking time-related questions can help your child learn about telling time and the sequence
of events while having fun at the same time.
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