7. Hours and Minutes
This is the hour hand.
It is the shortest hand on the clock.
This is the minute hand.
It is longer than the hour hand.
8. Hours and Minutes
When the minute hand is pointing
to 12, it is showing a full hour.
We call this time ‘o’clock’.
On this clock, the hour hand is
pointing at the 8 and the minute
hand is pointing to the 12.
This clock is showing that the time
is 8 o’clock.
19. Hours and Minutes
When the minute
hand has moved around
the face of the clock from 1
to 12, the time that has
passed in 60 minutes.
20. Hours and Minutes
• Each number on a clock
represents 5 minutes.
• Replacing the numbers
with multiples of 5 will
help you see why there
are 60 minutes in an
hour.
21. THE HANDS OF TIME
There are 60 minutes
on a clock face. Skip
count by fives to count
the minutes with me.
5
15
10
25
20
30
35
60
55
40
45
50
22. Hours and Minutes
As the minute hand
moves around the clock,
the hour hand moves very
slowly from 8 to 9.
It takes 1 hour to
travel the 60 minutes time
around the face of the
clock.