Learn and Write Time to the Hour with Examples

Key Concepts

• Tell time to the hour.
• Tell time to the half hour.

Clock 

• In a clock, the shorter hand is called the hour hand. 
• The hour hand tells us what hour it is. 

• The long hand is called the minute hand. 

• The minute hand points to the minute. 

A. Read time to the hour 

• When the minutes hand points to 12, we say o’clock. 

Example: The minutes hand is at 12 and the hours hand is at 3. 

So, the time is 3 o’clock. 

B. Digital clock 

• We can show time using a digital clock also. 

• The hours are written before the colon. 
• The minutes are written after the colon. 

C. Time to the half hour 

• When the minute hand is on 6, we can say that 30 minutes or half past the hour. 

• Half an hour is equal to 30 minutes. 

Exercise

• Draw the hour and minute hands on the clock to show the time as 5 o’clock.

• What is the time shown by the clock?

• Draw the hands on the clock to represent the time shown on the digital clock.

• Fill the missing terms of the pattern:
  3:00, 5:00, , 9:00, .
• If the time is as shown, between which numbers does the hour hand lie?

Concept Map :

What we have learned:

• When the minute hand of a clock is on 6, we can say that 30 minutes or half past the hour.