Telling Time to the Half Hour Resources for Kids

 Telling Time to the Half Hour Resources for Kids

Learning to tell time is important for children for many reasons. It builds independence and responsibility and helps children manage their own routines. It also strengthens other math skills such as counting by 5s and understanding fractions.

After students have become successful in learning to tell time to the hour then it would be a good time to introduce telling time to the half hour.

As with learning to tell time to the hour, it would be best to start learning about time to the half hour with concrete objects.

I would suggest gathering up all the clocks and watches, etc. that you can find in your environment and have your students touch and examine these concrete items and review what they already know about clocks and telling time. 

Then review telling time to the hour before introducing time to the half hour.

Start with your concrete items to have students learn about time to the half hour.  I like using teacher-made or student-made paper plates clocks to work with. Also many inexpensive paper clocks are available at your dollar stores.

paper plate analog clock

    paper plate analog clock

store bought clock

After using the real clocks and paper products you can move on to other paper and pencil supplies.

I have 2 new time to the half hour worksheets that I just recently added to the free math worksheets on my website.

Telling Time Worksheets

Click the link below, then go to the Mathematics page  to get your free copies.

Learning Workroom

https://www.LearningWorkroom.com

To read my earlier post on telling time to the hour, making paper plate clocks, and using other resources to learn about time and clocks, click the link below:

https://learningideasgradesk-8.blogspot.com/2025/09/telling-time-to-hour-resources-for-kids.html

 digital time with candy

Have fun with time!