Math Mania

While our last few units of math have revolved around learning different strategies for adding and subtracting, we are switching gears for our newest unit of study, which will revolve around measuring and telling time! While we started the week off with practicing time to the hour and half hour, we are now working towards our goal of telling time in 5-minute intervals. Here are some fun games you can play at home to help practice telling time:

ABCYa-Learn to Tell Time

Giraffe Dash-Time

We've also begun to practice measuring this week (and learned a lot about working together as a team!) We began making our tie fleece blankets for Project Linus during our Friday Centers, where we got a lot of practice measuring with a ruler, cutting, and tying. We also brought our own lovies to school for some extra helping hands :)

Mr. Fosher gave us some great tips for measuring and cutting our tabs!

We also worked together in groups during math time to create snowmen to winterize our bulletin board. The next day, we measured the different parts of our snowmen in inches using rulers and measuring tapes. 

Before we know it, there will be enough snow outside to make some real snowmen :) We can't wait to continue to make our blankets next week and practice a bit more with measuring and telling time. 

What Time Is It?

This week in math, we have been working very hard on telling time. We talked about the two types of clocks: digital (which lists the hour and the minute) and analog (a round clock with an hour hand and a minute hand that point to the time) . 

While many of us have digital clocks on our many devices and around our home, we talked about how many public places like our school, the library, and stores usually have an analog clock, so it is important to learn how to tell time on an analog clock.

On an analog clock, the shorter hand is the hour hand and the longer hand is the minute hand. When reading the hour, we either look to the number the hour hand is pointing to or to the number that is just to the left of the hour hand when it is in between numbers. When reading the minutes, we look at the number the minute hand is pointing to and count by fives from 1 until we reach that number. For example, we would count the minutes on the clock above by starting at 1 (5 minutes) and counting by fives until we reach the 11 (55 minutes). 

This clock is showing us that it is 5:30!

We also learned that each time happens twice a day: once at the am time and once at the pm time. All times between midnight (12:00 am) and noon (12:00 pm) are am times and all the times from noon to midnight are pm times. So, am is early morning and morning and pm is afternoon and night time.

We played some really fun math games on the smart board to help us practice telling time as well as learning which times are am and pm times. You can play these games at home by clicking here:

AM or PM?

Stop The Clock!

Challenge your family members to see who can tell time the fastest!