Telling Time

We are studying "Telling Time" right now for Math! Mrs. Rivera, one of my Kindergarten colleagues had a great idea (THANK YOU): I made copies of clocks and the students cut them out and created a necklace with them. I then borrowed a timer from Mrs. Sims, our principal and set it for an hour. Each hour, along with our regular school clock, the buzzer rang and we changed our clocks to the next hour. We did this counting by 5's like the macarena! The kids absolutely love it! I had one of them say to me, "Mrs. Acosta, the minute hand isn't on the 12 anymore so why are we keeping it there and only changing the hour hand?" As a teacher, this became one of those teachable moments. I validated this student by saying that she was correct, it wasn't 10 o'clock anymore it was 10:10. They asked how because it looked like 10:2. I then went on to explain that we counted by 5's when using the large numbers and the minute hand. I love our class! They are such awesome learners and inquirers!