My 10 year old is really struggling with telling time. I don't feel like it's to the point of stopping everything to teach her, but I do feel that we are going to have to practice every single day to concrete it. Besides drilling her with a judy clock, I have no clue what to do. That's going to get monotonous real quick, so I need some help figuring out some activities we can do together. Maybe some websites with free games for independent work. Thanks!!
We bought each kid a watch for Christmas, Cameron was the only one who got a digital. Having an analog clock on their wrists all the time has helped tremendously already.
I was that child. My Mom taped over or removed every digital clock in our home and made me use the analog ones only. It sucked, but I got it.
I was going to suggest Pinterest as well. I love this idea I pinned a while back. It uses plastic Easter eggs to match times on a clock vs digital. http://www.momto2poshlildivas.com/2013/03/what-time-is-it-telling-time-review-game.html
Is she dyslexic? If so it may take YEARS! I'm 36 and I'm still slow reading an analog clock. I've learned to compensate so well that when I wear an analog watch, even if I'm alone and I look at it to find out the time I squint my eyes, cock my head to the side and move my arm as if there is a glare on the watch face because for so many years I did this every time someone asked me for the time-these moves bought me the extra time I needed to read the watch without the person who asked for the time knowing I was really slow at it.
With each of our boys, we taught it overlapping between skip counting by fives right into learning the multiplication tables (since there's so much mental multiplication in reading an analog clock). I did use worksheets, I confess. First, just reading on the hour, then just reading on the hour or half past... then adding in quarter after and quarter 'till... The digital clocks are a killer, though. We don't have any downstairs, but we caught one son running upstairs when he needed to know the time - he was reading his dad's alarm clock! We nipped that in the bud, just said - Uh, not allowed. If you need to know the time, read the clocks downstairs and do the math if you need to.
One idea I found on Pintrest that my son loved was having a "record sheet" and I set the timer for every so often throughout the day and everytime it beeped, he had to go read the time and write it on the paper. At first, I would end up helping a lot, but as time went on, he got much better at it.
This might be it!! Thanks! She can read time to the hour and sometimes to the minute, but not always. Today I was quizzing her and the time I had on the clock was 15 after and instead of saying ___:15 she said ___:03 because the minute hand was on the three.. ((sigh)) She'll get it, but it's going to take some work.. I don't think she's dyslexic, but maybe she could be.. She still gets her b's and d's mixed up. Even the uppercase. We eliminated that by using the phrase "b looks to C (see)". That fixed the lower case issue but had to come up with one for upper case. So Boobies is what she came up with. Ya, we are bad! But whatever works, right?? No issues for a month now. So success!!
