The Grouchy Ladybug and Telling Time

Monique Ray
07/29/2010
Math for Elem. Teachers 1
MAR 3

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Title - Grouchy Ladybug Time Lesson
By - Maxine Barrera
Primary Subject - Math
Grade Level - 1-2

MN Standard 2 A. Number Sense and Operations Number 2 Explain and record observations using objects, words, pictures, numbers, and technology.

Performance Objective: The learners will demonstrate an understanding of using clocks to tell time by using manipulative provided and by sketching them on paper with 100% accuracy.

Strategies used in this lesson: Clock Manipulatives

Materials Needed:
Teacher model clock
Student manipulative clocks
Clock diagrams
Sticky tack/tape, or a tripod
Prior knowledge needed for this lesson:
Number recognition -- needs to be able to easily identify the numbers 1 - 12.
Key vocabulary used in the lesson:
Clock, hands, arrow, o'clock, time, hour, gentle, clockwise, counter-clockwise
Lesson Presentation:
Motivation/Focus:

1. Show the large clock and how its hand moves.
2. Ask students to state reasons why we need clocks.
3. Today, we will learn to tell time with a grouchy ladybug and fun clocks. Before we can do that, we need to discuss some key words that may be unclear or have more than one meaning so that when we use them to tell time, we all know how to interpret those words.











Procedure/Activities:

1. Talk about clock.
2. The teacher will introduce some key terms and write them down.
3. Each student may turn their yellow clock over and become familiar with the clock.
4. Stop, clocks down.
5. The teacher will read "The Grouchy Ladybug" by Eric Carle
6. While the teacher reads the book, she/he will point out the times on the clocks and the students will move their clocks to show the time the book says. The teacher may call students at random to come to the big clock and show everyone the time.
7. The students will draw the hands on the clocks according to the time stated below the clocks.
8. When the students have finished, we will go over each one together with random students taking turns to show the correct time on the big clock.
9. The teacher will check the students' clocks for 100% accuracy for "five" (sticker).



Evaluation/assessment:
Each student must have all of the clocks completed on their sheets with 100% accuracy. Each student must be able to demonstrate on the manipulative clock the time asked by the teacher. The teacher will ask students to hold up their clocks with the time specified showing in order to do an "around the room" quick glance at the clocks. Each student must be able to move the clock hands to show a specified time with 100% accuracy.
Closure: the teacher will ask the following questions...
• Tell me what you liked the most about the story.
• What was the hardest part of learning to move the hands on the clocks?
• What was the best part of learning to tell time this way?
• What could we have done differently to make it more fun/interesting to you?
Extend/Enrich:
1. Students will go to the art center and paint a picture of their favorite time of day, a clock showing the specified time (as in the Eric Carle book) and show it to the rest of the class at the end of the day with a brief description of what time it is and why it is their favorite time of day.
2. Students can work with partners to make a daily schedule similar to the one posted and illustrate the activity for each time of day.
Reteach:
1. Using the sheet with the clocks that already have the hands drawn and the time written out below them and write the time in digit form. Students may color the clocks with different colored crayons.

* What introductory information is necessary for children to have prior to starting this activity?
The children need to be able to know and recognize the numbers 1-12 easily, Number Recognition.
* What grade level/s is appropriate for this activity? Please use appropriate justification for your answers here.
This activity is appropriate for grade levels 1-2. In first grade they start to introduce telling time and this activity helps with that introduce and solidifying that knowledge in 2nd grade. It also incooperates a familiar story by a popular author and mixes writing and math into one.
* How will you engage students with different learning styles?
I will engage students with different learning styles by appealing to visual learners, kinesthetic, left brain and musical learners. I will try not to teach only one way and to one type of learning. I will appeal to visual hands-on learners by using the pretend clock to figure out the time. I also will appeal to kinesthetic learners by having tactile, texture experiences with the ladybugs in the story and the hands on the clock. I will appeal to left brain learners by having them read about telling time before doing the activity in a math workbook. Finally I will appeal to musical learners by singing the book in a song to put the telling time theory in their head.
* How does this activity connect to the real world for students? Be specific.
This activity connects to the real world so that students know how to tell time. They will learn what time they need to go to school, what time school ends, and how to set an alarm clock. They will learn how much time they need for a specific activity and how much time need to get ready.
* Why is this activity with its concepts important for student learning? Be specific.
This activity with its concepts is important for student learning because it is common sense, everyday knowledge they need to know how to function in life. If you do not know how to tell time you would not know when you would need to be at school, work, meetings, meeting a friend. You would also not know how much time you needed to get ready for something or get somewhere or how long you would be somewhere.

* What are your comments on this activity? Would you use it in your classroom?

My comments on this activity is that it stuck out to me because it taught a practical skill, one that the 2nd graders I tutored and mentored for my teaching degree were learning. I also liked it because it incooperated math and reading, the two most important subjects at the beginning of school. As an elementary school teacher you also need to know how to teach all subjects, so this would come in useful.