How to tell_the_time
- 1. How To Tell The Time
- 2. Here is an analogue clock Each of these The big hour hand little sections is shows the minutes one minute The section between each of the numbers is 5 minutes- practise counting There are 60 minutes in one hour! around the clock.
- 3. What about the little hand? The little hand measures the hour and uses the numbers on the clock face- it moves VERY slowly!! It takes a whole hour to move between the two numbers
- 4. How to tell the time… We use the When the big information from hand is on the both the big and little zero it means hands! it is the start of the hour The little hand has reached the 8 so we are in the eighth hour! What is the time here?
- 5. What about this clock?
- 6. What about this one?
- 7. Other names… We sometimes call this quarter past because the big hand has gone a quarter of the way round
- 8. What about this clock? We call this half past because the big hand has gone half way round and the little hand is gone halfway between the two hours.
- 9. What about this clock? We call this quarter to because the big hand only has a quarter turn left until it gets to the next hour So this would be quarter to 12, because there is a quarter turn before 12 o’ clock
- 10. Now try some of these!