Time Chant

Grade Level(s):  1^st – 2^nd Grade

Content Area:                                                                        Process Area:

Numbers and Operations                                           Problem-Solving

Algebra                                                           Reasoning and Proof

Geometry                                                                    Communication

Measurement                                                             Representation

Data Analysis, Statistics, and Probability                    Connections

Common Core Standards:

CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.1.MD.B.3: Tell and write time in hours and half-hours using analog and digital clocks.

CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.2.MD.C.7: Tell and write time from analog and digital clocks to the nearest five minutes, using a.m. and p.m.

Targeted Needs of Student:

Telling time, remembering the value of each value of time (minutes, hours, day, week, year), using music to remember time

Goal:

Providing students with rhyming chant to remember the value of a minute, hour, day, week, and a year

Materials Needed:

1. Chant posted in classroom – maybe one for each student

Explanation/Summary:

To help remember the difference between minutes, hours, days, weeks, and years students will learn this chant as a class. The teacher will say the chant and then have them repeat it.

Resource:

www.firstgradewow.blogspot.com