For the fourth activity, students were still focusing on the half-hour, but there was an added

challenge to test their skills. For this “Spring Time” activity, the student will either write the

time underneath each clock or show the time on the clock after being given a time. I liked this

activity because the students are reviewing how to write the time but must be able to correctly

draw the hour and minute hands on an empty analog clock. I used this activity as an exit ticket

for review on telling time to the half-hour, and based on this I wanted to review more on this

concept. After this activity, I took a few minutes during the Teacher Table station to let the

students practice writing the hands on their whiteboards and then identifying each hand on their

own clocks. While they may never have to draw the hands on a clock, I wanted the students to

get into the practice of recognizing the characteristics of the hour and minute hands. If they can

understand that the minute hand is long and the hour hand is short, then they will be able to tell

time on an analog clock.

Activity 4 Work Samples:

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The fifth activity I focused on for this assignment is using nonlinguistic movements to

help the students be more familiar with the minute and hour hand. At the beginning of this unit, I

noticed some of the students struggling to determine which hand to look at first and which one

was the hour and the minute hand. So, I decided to have the students use their own hands to

make an engaging and fun outlet of learning this important principle of telling time. To represent

the hour hand, the students made a “T-Rex Arm” with on hand, turning the elbow in so only the

small part of the forearm and hand are present. For the minute hand, I had the students stretch

their arm straight out to make the “giraffe arm”. As we practiced and the students understood

what each meant, I used this throughout the unit to show where the minute hand would be at the

hour or the half-hour. The students mimicked these actions and even did this themselves as a

review and anticipatory set before the lessons. The students had fun with this and most seemed to

grasp this concept well.