Students are reading time to the hour, half-hour, quarter-hour, five minutes, and minute, as well as describing the time before the hour and after the hour. For example, you can read 3:49 both as after and before the hour. The children would say, “49 minutes after 3 or 11 minutes before 4.”

We started using clocks to solve problems about elapsed time. Help your child read time and find elapsed time. Ask your cild to estimate how long it takes to do activities such as eating a meal, traveling to the store, or doing homework. Have your child look at the clock when starting an activity and then again at the end of the activity. Ask how long the activity took.

We will be learning to add and subtract time on a number line next week.