What time is it?

This Time Year 2 Maths planning pack contains five ready-to-teach lessons that will enable your KS1 class to more confidently answer the question, 'What time is it?'

Through engaging games and colourful resources, your class will have the opportunity to recap o’clock, half past, quarter past and quarter to times as well as being introduced to minutes past and minutes to. They will also investigate one hour before and after given times, as well as moving on to five minutes earlier and later.

This Time Year 2 Maths scheme of work comes with detailed lessons plans, differentiated activity ideas, slides for the whole-class input and a range printable resources, meaning everything is ready for you to teach clear, engaging lessons that cover the necessary time Year 2 objectives.

 

O'Clock, Half Past, Quarter Past and Quarter To

Revisit telling the time to the nearest 15 minutes with your KS1 children as your Year 2 class read, say and draw o’clock, half past, quarter past and quarter to times. The included slideshow presentation for the teaching input challenges your class to answer questions about reading the time to the nearest 15 minutes on a clock face, and matching written times to the correct clock.

During their independent learning activities, they can go on to consolidate these skills for themselves. There is also the added challenge of attempting to tell the time on clocks with missing hands using their reasoning skills.

This lesson contains a lesson plan, a slideshow, differentiated activity ideas and a range of printable resources – everything you need to challenge your class to read, write and understand o'clock, half past, quarter past and quarter to times.

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Nearest 5 Minutes Past

Telling the time to the nearest 5 minutes can be a tricky concept for young children to grasp, but this Year 2 Maths lesson goes through the process clearly and simply. Use the included slideshow presentation to go through the teaching points and ask them questions to test and consolidate their understanding of telling the time to the nearest 5 minutes past the hour.

During their independent learning time, they can then undertake the a variety of differentiated activities to practise these skills as they continue to grow in confidence and use their reasoning skills to sort times according to different criteria.

This Year 2 Maths lesson includes a lesson plan, a slideshow and a range of printable resources to help your children learn how to tell the time to the nearest 5 minutes past the hour.

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Nearest 5 Minutes To

Now that your Year 2 class are familiar with telling the time to the nearest 5 minutes past the hour, it's time to challenge them to tell the time to the nearest 5 minutes to the hour. This ready-to-teach lesson will challenge your class to use what they know about telling the time to solve puzzles and games to apply the tricky concept of telling the time in five minute intervals.

A lesson plan, slideshow, differentiated activity ideas and a range of fun, engaging printable resources are included to make teaching this tricky KS1 lesson a piece of cake!

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Earlier and Later

Challenge your Year 2 class to investigate how the hands on a clock move after five minutes or after one hour has passed. They will figure out what the time will be one hour later or earlier than a given time before moving on to investigating five minutes earlier or later than a given time.

This challenging Year 2 Time lesson comes ready-prepared with an easy-to-follow lesson plan, a slideshow for the teaching input, differentiated activity ideas to support different levels of learners, and a range of printable teaching resources to support your class as they investigate times that are one hour or five minutes earlier or later.

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Our School Day

This Our School Day lesson is the final lesson in our What's the Time? Year 2 scheme of work. In this lesson, your KS1 class will have the opportunity to apply what they have learnt about telling time to the nearest five minutes and create a school timetable using analogue clocks. Personalise the information you give them or have them create a timetable for Sasha or Samuel’s day at school.

This Year 2 lesson on telling the time comes fully planned and ready to deliver to your class. There's a detailed lesson plan, an engaging slideshow for the whole-class input, differentiated activity ideas, and a range of printable teaching resources.

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