The document outlines a first grade lesson plan on telling time by the hour. Students will learn to read analog clocks and understand the relationship between the hour and minute hands. The lesson involves making paper plate clocks, singing a song about telling time, reading a story that incorporates clocks, and having students write down times at random intervals. The lesson aims to help students comprehend why telling time is important and be able to read clocks to the hour and half hour.

2. Hour After Hour
First Grade Mathematics Lesson

3. Lesson Information
• Objective: Students will be able to tell and
illustrate time by the hour./ Students will
understand the movement of the minute hand in
relation to the hour hand.
• Essential Questions: Why is it important that we
can properly read and understand time?
• Lesson Type: Direct Instruction
• Cognitive Level: Knowledge, Comprehension,
Application, Analysis
• Affective Level: Receiving phenomena, Responding
to phenomena
• Psychomotor Level: Perception, Set, Guided
Response
• Multiple Intelligence: Bodily/Kinesthetic,
Verbal/Linguistic, Music/Rhythmic, Visual/Spatial

4. Technology Materials
• Smart Board • The Grouchy Ladybug by Eric
Carle
• Computer with lyrics to • Cardboard circles or paper
hands on the clock song plates
• Construction paper
• Scissors
• Glue
• Foam numbers
• Markers
• Demo clock already made
• Timer
• Hands on the clock song
• Blank paper
• Pencil
• Brass fasteners

5. Standard Addressed
Measurement
• M1M2. Students will develop an
understanding of the measurement of time.
– a. Tell time to the nearest hour and half hour
and understand the movement of the minute
hand and how it relates to the hour hand.

6. Introduction
• Introduce the book The Grouchy Ladybug and ask
the class if they know what the book is about. Find
out what the class knows about time.
• Explain the importance of the small and large hands
on a clock.
• Using the computer and Smart Board, display the
lyrics to the hands on the clock song. Read the
lyrics and sing the song as a class.
• Inform the students that they will be making their
very own clocks and show the demo clock that has
been pre-made before class.
• Pass cardboard circle, large and small clock hands
pattern, glue, scissors, markers, and foam numbers
out to each student.
• Have the students create their own correct clock.

8. Guided Practice
• Read The Grouchy Ladybug to the
students.
• Using their homemade clocks, have the
students move the hands to show the
correct time that is shown.
• Leave plenty of time for the students to
see the clock in the book.
• Ask questions regarding the book and
time so check for understanding.

9. Independent Activities
Pass out a piece of paper to each
student and explain that you are going
to set a timer that will randomly go off
at different times. Explain that you
want everyone to write down what time
the clock says each time the timer goes
off.

10. Performance Assessment
• You can assess the students by checking
to see if their homemade clocks are
constructed correctly.
• Also, check their paper with the time
intervals to ensure they were reading
the correct time.

11. Closure
• Have the students turn in their papers with
each time interval on it.
• Review the times by asking the students
questions to get them thinking, such as “what
time is it when the long hand is on the one and
the short hand is on the twelve?”
• Allow the students to use their homemade
clocks to figure out the answers
• Review the essential questions by asking and
explaining why telling time is important.

12. Questions or Suggestions??

13. References
Fraley, M. & Boyd, R. (2011). Telling time (by
the hour). Retrieved from
http://www.lessonplanspage.com/MathTime.htm
Banks, G. & Matterson, E. (n.d.) Telling time,
clocks. Retrieved on July 11, 2011 from
http://www.canteach.ca/elementary/songspoems