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🧮 2nd Grade · Math2.MD.C.7Unit 8: Time to the nearest five minutes

a.m. and p.m.

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🎯 Objective: Students use a.m. and p.m. to describe the time of day.

Lesson outline

  1. Sort daily activities into a.m. and p.m.
  2. Discuss noon and midnight.
  3. Make a daily schedule.
  4. Exit: is lunch a.m. or p.m.?

Lesson 3 of 3 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

2.MD.C.7

Common Core State Standards for Mathematics, Grade 2 — typical US scope & sequence

🏁 Unit goals

  • Tell and write time to the nearest five minutes
  • Use a.m. and p.m.

✅ 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: Money & time to 5 minutes🕒 Interactive clock📚 All 2nd Grade skills🎮 Learning games⚡ Capy Live class quiz

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More lessons in “Time to the nearest five minutes”

  1. Counting by 5s on the clock
  2. Time to five minutes
  3. a.m. and p.m.

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