Telling Time to the Half Hour
I wrote this song for my elementary students to help teach reading half hours on an actual (non-digital) clock. Listen to my telling time to the hour song: youtu.be/TaFQslk37xg Lyrics: Our teacher said, It’s Monday morning, Let’s go play! It was only 8 AM, And we all screamed hooray! But when It began to rain, That was really recess bliss, And a half an hour passed so fast, The clock told us this! It wasn’t 8 O’Clock it was 8:30 Big hand on the six, We were really very dirty! Big hand on the 6, And we knew that it meant 30 Between the 8 and 8 We saw the little hand go, Recess was over and we screamed, “Oh No!” OH NO! Well our awesome teacher yelled, I’m as proud as a birdy, That you learned the longer hand, On the 6 makes a :30, We washed our muddy hands, In our shiny classroom sink, That made our teacher happy and she gave us all a wink, Let’s have another recess, That starts at 9 O’Clock, Another half hour we were really all in shock! Another Recess? SWEET!
