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🧮 1st Grade · Math1.MD.B.3Unit 10: Telling time

Time to the half hour

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🎯 Objective: Students read and write times to the half hour.

Lesson outline

  1. Fold a paper circle in half: “half past”.
  2. Notice the hour hand is halfway between numbers.
  3. Set and read half-hour times.
  4. Exit: show 2:30.

Lesson 3 of 4 in this unit. In the Lesson Planner this lesson takes 1–3 class periods depending on your timetable: day 1 introduce & model, then practice, small-group reteach and a quick check.

📐 Standard

1.MD.B.3

Common Core State Standards for Mathematics, Grade 1 — typical US scope & sequence

🏁 Unit goals

  • Tell and write time in hours and half-hours on analog and digital clocks

✅ Check for understanding

End with the exit ticket in the outline. Sort answers into got it / almost / not yet and start the next lesson with a 5-minute reteach for the “not yets”.

Practice & resources on Thinkabara

🎯 Practice: Measure lengths & tell time🕒 Interactive clock📚 All 1st Grade skills🎮 Learning games⚡ Capy Live class quiz

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More lessons in “Telling time”

  1. Parts of a clock
  2. Time to the hour
  3. Time to the half hour
  4. Our day in time

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