Clocks / Telling Time / Daylight Savings Time Storytime

With daylight savings time happening this weekend (SPRING ahead, FALL back) I thought it would be fun to have a “telling time” storytime.  To my surprise, there weren’t as many good clock books available in our collection as I would have hoped.  – but I guess that is a good thing!  It means quite a few were checked out!

I decided to share a felt board version of Hickory Dickory Dock before reading the stories.  Here are a few book suggestions:

Little Rabbit’s First Time Book by Alan Baker

What Time is It? (Seven Little Monsters)   By Arthur Yorinks

My Grandmother's Clock by Geraldine McCaughrean

I.Q. It’s Time by Mary Ann Fraser

Hickory Dickory Dock by Keith Baker

The Clock Struck One by Trudy Harris

Telling Time with Big Mama Cat by Dan Harper

Don't forget Bats Around the Clock and The Grouchy Ladybug for a couple of great books for older kids (early elementary).

Besides Hickory Dickory Dock, don’t forget the cute nursery rhyme Wee Willie Winkie:

Wee Willie Winkie runs through the town,
Upstairs and downstairs, in his nightgown;
Rapping at the window, crying through the lock,
"Are the children in their beds? Now it's eight o'clock."

For a craft, make a clock of course!   You can use a paper plate, with a brass fastener and some construction paper.  The other clock shown in my picture is made using an Accu-Cut Dye.  Have fun with it!  And keep the clock handy (maybe on the fridge?!) so that you can practice telling time often!

Check out Songs for Teaching  at http://www.songsforteaching.com/preschoolkindergarten.htm for some great songs to help learn how to tell time (scroll down a bit) on the page.

Here is a link to Enchanted Learning’s rebus stories about telling time http://www.enchantedlearning.com/rhymes/topics/time.shtml

A couple of printable time activities can be found on Make Learning Fun http://www.makinglearningfun.com/themepages/TimeTheme.htm