My Book of Easy Telling Time: Learning about Hours and Half-Hours

I bought this for our four year old. It has been so awesome! She has picked up on it so quickly that I've ordered the minutes version!

The Kumon series of books works by empowering children to succeed on their own. The books get successively more difficult as they build upon skills learned from the previous pages, so that by the end of the book the child has a sense of accomplishment and be ready to move on to the next level. The instructor is more of a mentor or coach than a teacher in a classroom.The Easy Telling Time book is designed to help teach the hour and half-hour. It starts off pretty easily with it asking to first trace along the numbers of a clock. It shows you what the numbers are supposed to be, you just fill them in. Then page by page, it gets progressively more difficult. It teaches about the hour hand and asks the child to fill in what time it is, then it gives you the time, but the hour hand has to be drawn. By the middle of the book, both hands are missing and need to be drawn in. Then it goes on to the minute hand, but instead of explaining it as 30 minutes, it uses the term "half past," which may be a little confusing if you're not used to talking this way around the house. I've been explaining it to my 3.5 year old as 30 minutes and he seems to have picked up on it fairly easily. By the end of the book, it gives you a bunch of clocks of both hour and half-hour times and asks you to write in the correct time of each.Highly recommended workbook for learning how to tell time, learning numbers 1-12 and pre-writing skills!

This supplemental workbook will help your young child learn to tell time on a clock face. Recommended for ages 4 to 6, this book would typically be used at a first grade level or an advanced kindergarten student.The introductory materials are a wealth of helpful information for parents and teachers. One of the featured items is how to teach your child to hold a pencil correctly. There is a list of Aims and Purposes, How to use this book and more information about the Kumon Methodology.Encompassing over 80, full-color pages, this book will help your child associate certain times of day with certain activities (like dinner time, bed time, and lunch time). The workbook begins with number writing exercises, to be sure your child understands the sequence of numbers 1 - 12. After ensuring the numbers are learned, they then move on to putting numbers on a clock face, and learning to tell hours. They also cover half hours and associations between clock time and going to school, going to bed and meals.This workbook is an excellent introduction to telling time for your young child. It is a fun after school activity or supplemental learning exercise for home.

For our homeschool kindergarten lessons, I introduced time to my daughter using the My Book of Easy Telling Time: Learning about Hours and Half-Hours workbook from Kumon. The workbook introduces young learners to the concept of telling time by concentrating on the hours first and then incrementally introducing children to half- and quarter-hours, which also helps improve the general understanding of numbers. I like the slower pace of this workbook and the repetition, which reinforces the basics of telling time. My daughter is catching on to telling time through the use of this workbook.

This is our first Kumon book, but my son is so ENGAGED with this workbook. He is newly 4 years old and he goes ahead of me often tracing the letters, stating the time, and writing the hands of the clock. This resource does an EXCELLENT job building the foundation of time recognition. First, they have the student trace number chronologically to 12. Then they show the numbers on the clock that are then traced. Then the child turns to a page with missing numbers that they have to fill in. So on and so forth. It is an excellent resource.I do recommend getting a "hands on" clock that you can have the student demonstrate the time themselves on the turn clock.

I am disappointed that this mostly only teaches the hour and "half past". Seriously, not 12:30, but half past 12 is the default? Maybe I misunderstood, but when I think they're going to teach half hours to kids 4-6, I didn't expect "half past" to be in the book at all. I wanted a foundation for teaching minutes - you know, the hard part of telling time for kids. Yet, the concept of minutes barely has any place at all here.That is, in this 80-page drill book, the basic numbers on a clock are covered and then the whole hour configurations are covered from pages 1-39. Well and good. Then, from 40-70, it's all "half past" stuff. Then, abruptly, there's the times written by the "half past" parts on 71 and 72, then no "half past" but just _:30 from pages 73-76 (24 clocks). That's it. Pages and pages of drills on "half past" and then a brief and easily missed inclusion of 30 with "half past", followed by eliminating "half past" altogether. Sure, you can talk about minutes at that point (and probably a bit about fractions), but teaching "half past" at all is pretty much a waste of time and effort. You can only use minutes and never "half past" ever again. And it's almost half the book. /sigh.

Perfect for my age 4 child who wants to learn how to read time now and not have to wait until 1st grade. There is a follow up book that teaches minutes - this book covers like 5:30 not 5:32.

I got this for my 7 year old homeschooler who was/is struggling to understand time. This book starts off very basic tracing the numbers on the clock and such and gets gradually harder. This is exactly what she needs. She's had workbooks with "learning time" in them but that only coverd two to four pages. Which is nothing really. Time is such a hard concept to understand in the 1st place a whole book dedicated time is a perfect start! I would highly recommend this book and will be looking into other KUMON workbooks as well.

This book only covers hours and half pasts. Much of the book is simply writing the numbers in order, then filling in clock faces. It then moves onto the hour times and finally half hours.I don't like the way this book works at all. It's all about repetition and learning by rote. The child has to fill in the clock face over and over, with different numbers missed out. Then the child has to trace over the hands for every single o'clock time, then every single half hour time. A lot of the book has the answers in light grey for the child to trace over.This didn't work for my child at all - she simply traced neatly over the grey without thinking about the question. The questions which didn't have the answer to be traced were part of a pattern, of o'clocks or half hours, so the child can use the pattern not think about the question.My child had no problems going through this book, but by the end she had no more idea of telling the time than before she started!

As other reviewers already mentioned -- it covers just the 'whole' hours and 'half-past'. For 80-pages book it is a bit too little. Quarters would really be a nice addition.Overall it is a useful book, but I feel it is not as good as others from KUMON series.

This book arrived with writings (in pencil) the answers, the name of the person etc. I assume that a Good condition means that although it has been used, the answers have been erased and that the answers are not visible to the next user! Otherwise, there is no point, is there?

Our four year old little boy got the concept while using this book, so quickly. Such a great way to teach the little ones.

Excellent !!!!