How to teach time telling to your kids?

Most of the parents find it hard to teach their kids to read time. Here are the tips to teach them in an easy way, provided they are familiar with numbers.

• First, start with hours. Teach them to identify exact hours like 1 pm, 2 pm etc.. They learn this easily. Practice this for couple of days by asking them the time whenever it is exactly hourly time.

• While they are learning hours, teach them jumps of 5 i.e. 5, 10, 15 ... 60. They should know this thoroughly.
• Next, teach them only minutes. As they already know jumps of 5, they can count and say the minutes easily.

• Finally, combine the hours and minutes. The only problem they face here is , they get confused with hours , if the minutes cross 30. As the needle moves beyond the exact hour, it causes confusion. We have to make them understand , unless the needle crosses the hour it is the previous hour. For ex. for 9:45, they say 10:45 , as the needle is closer to 10 than 9. As it has not crossed 10, it is only 9.
• Keep asking them to read  time for couple of days. 

• They will learn to read time in less than a weeks time. If your kids are still not comfortable, you can also make use of the time telling games from the below website.

http://www.kidsnumbers.com/telling-time.php