Parts of a Clock
See Lesson Ideas for this topicWe read clocks to tell time and plan our day. Reading clocks and telling time are visited many times in grade school, so the extent to which your child understands the concepts will vary. Your child should begin by recognizing that an analog clock has hands and a face. Most clocks have two hands, a short hand which points to the hours and a longer hand which points to the minutes. The hands move around the clock at different speeds, with the hour hand moving slower than the minute hand. Most analog clocks also have twelve numbers on the face.