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The Grouchy Ladybug Tells Time File Folder Game

May 23, 2023 By Deirdre

This tells time file folder game has a Grouchy Ladybug theme. The focus on this file folder game is telling time to the hour and half hour. However, using just the hour or half hour cards would be fine. It will be up to you to decide what times you want your children to work on.

If setting the hands on a clock helps your children tell time, you can print out the ladybug clock below. It is part of a set of Telling Time Worksheets with Ladybug.

Getting the Grouchy Ladybug Tells Time File Folder Game

First, you will need to download the set.

The Grouchy Ladybug Tells Time File Folder Game Download

Second, if you don’t have Acrobat Reader you will need to download it. The algorithm page is an Acrobat Reader PDF file.

Third, you must go to your download file and open the page. You may be asked if you want the file to open right after you download it. You won’t have to hunt for it in your download file if you are.

Getting the Game Ready to Play

Making the Game Boards Reusable

If you plan on using the game boards over and over again, you may want to laminate them. The boards themselves could be laminated or the boards glued to a folder.

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Selecting Game Tokens

Any of the following objects would make a fun game token. Most of them are probably in your junk drawer or craft space.

Small Erasers
Paper Clips
Buttons
Bottle Caps
Small Pebbles

How to Play the Grouchy Ladybug Tells Time File Folder Game

Children will place a marker (button, bottle cap, bread tag, etc.) on the word Start.
Then they will take turns rolling a single die.
After they roll the will move forward that number of spaces.
When they land has the word card on it, pick up a ladybug time card. If they get the time correct, they will move forward one space. If the answer is wrong, they will stay on the card space.
The child who reaches the word End first wins the game.

Building Background

Before playing the game, you may want to read a book about telling time to your children. Below you will find some of my favorites.

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The book The Grouchy Ladybug inspired this telling time activity. It is a fun way to explore time telling.

The Completed Hickory Dickory Dock follows the mouse all through the day. It doesn’t just focus on climbing up the clock.

This fun book follows a monkey who follows a minute up a tree. It explores time and how it passes.

More Time Activities

Telling Time from Sunrise to Sunset

What Time is it Mr. Hermit Crab Telling Time Worksheets- This set of four telling time worksheets could be explored after reading the book A House for a Hermit Crab

What Time is it Mr. Hermit Crab? Worksheets

All About Me Worksheets That Explore Math Concepts

July 30, 2018 By Deirdre

Last week I shared with you edible Back to School printables, this week I have a set of four All About Me worksheets that you could use during the Back to School season. Each of the four printables invites your children to work on math concepts while sharing facts about themselves. You could have your children work on all of All About Me Worksheets or just one of them.

Getting the All About Me Worksheets

You can download the All About Me Worksheets That Explore Math Concepts onto your computer. They are in a PDF format. Once you have downloaded them you can, decide which of the All About Me worksheets you want to use.

Exploring the All About Me Worksheets

Each of the All About Me worksheets explore different math concepts. Let me walk you through each of them.

Your children will need to know some facts about themselves to work on this worksheet. You can gather some of the numbers ahead of time for them if you don’t feel they will know them. The numbers they will need to fill in the blanks appear at the bottom of the page.

This All About Me worksheet invites children to write down words that relate to them and their school. Young children may need to have you place the words on a note card or the board for them to copy onto this worksheet. They will start by writing down the words or group of words. Then they can count how many letters are in each word or group of words.

Measurement is the focus of this All About Me worksheet. Your children can use one-inch block or cubes to measure various sections on their body. Then they can record on the worksheet how many one-inch blocks they used to measure each section.

This worksheet focuses on telling time to the minute. Your children may need help figuring the time that each of these events happens during the day. You could have them take it home to work on with their parents or you could help them at school.

Below you will find a display of All About Me themed books that you could read to your children before they start work on the worksheets.

Here are the Editable Back to School printables I shared last week.

Going to School and Coming Home Backpack Checklists

Editable Lunchbox Notes with Encouraging Words

Editable Back to School Chore Charts for Before School, After School and Bedtime

Telling Time from Sunrise to Sunset STEM Worksheets

May 9, 2018 By Deirdre

The rising of the sun in the morning is usually followed by a loud cock-a-doodle-doo on a farm. The rooster announces with all his might that a new day has started. Your children will have fun discovering when the sun rises and sets where you live. When they have done that they will be reading to start this telling time from sunrise to sunset STEM activity.

Before starting this activity, you may want to read your children a book about roosters. Here are a few books that we really love.

Telling Time Activity

Deciding on the Printable or Worksheet

There are three different telling time layouts available. Let share with you what you will find on each of the printables.

The first is a simple layout that displays clocks for sunrise, breakfast, lunch, dinner, and sunset. You will find a color version and a black and white version of that layout.

The second layout has all of the activities displayed on the first clock. It also has two extra clocks with editable activity spots on the two new clocks. This version is available in color version and a black and white version.

Finally, you have a layout with editable activity spots under five of the clocks. You can type in any activities that your children do during the day. There are a color version and black and white version of this clock too.

Assembling the Clock Activity

You will need to print out a set of the Telling Time Printables – Sunrise to Sunset Clocks for each of your children. You can print them out a set of the black and white or colored in version of the telling time printables.

Then the sunrise to sunset, the long rectangle, and the sun circle will need to be cut out. You can cut them out for your children if you like.

The sun needs to be glued to one end of the rectangle. You will need to make sure it is glued to the very end of the rectangle.

Finally, the end of the rectangle without the sun on it will need to be attached to the back of the circle with a brass fastener.

Adding the Time to the Clocks

You will need to look up when the sun rises and sets in your area. We used timeanddate.com to find out when the sunrise and sunset were.

Your children will need to draw the hands to show the sunrise time on the clock labeled sunrise.

Then they can continue to draw the hands on the remaining clocks to display the time each of the activities takes place during the day.

Here are some more math printables you can use with your children:

Counting to Ten Coding Sheet (This is an editable worksheet.)

Go Away Big Green Monster Roll and Color Page

What Time is it Gorilla? Telling Time Worksheets

April 13, 2018 By Deirdre

This week I have been sharing activities that have a gorilla theme. My thought was that you could work on each of them after reading the book Good Night, Gorilla. The first activity was a gorilla egg carton craft. The second was a coding activity that invited children to build an algorithm that placed some of the events from the book in order. Today’s telling time worksheets focus on telling time on the hour, half hour and at five-minute intervals.

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If you haven’t read the book Good Night, Gorilla to your children. They will enjoy hearing it before they start working on these telling time worksheets. You may even want to ask them to figure out what time they think each of the events in the book happens.

Getting the Telling Time Worksheets

You will need to download the Telling Time Worksheets with Gorillas. Then you can print them out on a black and white printer. You can print out one or all of the worksheets for each of your children.

Children who are tactile-kinesthetic learners may need set each time on a Judy Clockor a paper plate clock before writing it down on paper. They may not be ready to look at a clock on paper alone.

You may also need to remind them that not only the minute hand moves on a clock. They will need to remember that the hour hand starts to move closer and closer to the next hour as time passes.

If you have asked your children about when they think each of the events happened, you may want to record the times. Then your children can show you each of the times on a Classroom Clock Kitor a paper plate clock. After clocks with Good Night, Gorilla, you may want to explore them with the book Cluck O’Clock

If you like these telling time worksheets, here are some more your children will enjoy.

Printable Rooster Clock

Telling Time Printables with Crabs

What Time is it? Printables

Telling Time Practice Cards

Ladybug Time Time Worksheets

What Time is it Mr. Hermit Crab? Telling Time Worksheets

June 6, 2017 By Deirdre

This is the second in a series of five printables being share this week. Each of them has an ocean theme. 3 Dinosaurs and Royal Baloo are also sharing ocean themed printables during this week. Today’s telling time worksheets have a crab theme.

You may remember I recently shared a number of hermit crab themed activities based on the book A House for a Hermit Crab. You could easily have your children create a hermit crab home with blocks, make a paper plate hermit crab, and explore my hermit crab calendar activities after working on these telling time worksheets.

Telling Time Worksheets

Getting Ready

You can download and print out one or all of the telling time worksheets telling time worksheets to work on. Although the worksheets have color on them, you could definitely print them out in color.

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While this set doesn’t include a printable clock, you may want to have paper or Color-Coded Judy Clock available for them to use. It would be a good way for children to check or figure out their answers.

Exploring the Clocks

Just Learning About Clocks

You could really have your children work on any of the telling time worksheets, but if they are just learning to tell time you will want to start with the hour and half hour. Children can start in the first row and work their way to the end of the third row. Writing the time that appears on each clock on the line below it.

Can You Find the Time?

Instead of working their way across the rows you could have your children seek and find particular times. They could look for the times in chronological order starting at twelve and finding the time leading up to twelve.

What Time is it Mr. Hermit Crab?

You can point to a clock on any of the telling time worksheets and say, “What time is it Mr. Hermit Crab?” You children will need to respond with the correct time.

If you like these telling time worksheets, here are some other worksheets with ocean themes you will like.

Ocean Counting Mats

Graphing Ocean Animals with LEGO

Mini Shark Pack

LEGO Ocean Animal Building Directions

Jump Into the Ocean Learning Pack

Counting Worksheets with an Ocean Theme

Ocean Themed Roll and Cover Mats

Beach Themed Gross Motor Dice

Fun Reading Practice with Beach Silly Sentences

Telling Time Worksheets with Ladybugs

May 4, 2017 By Deirdre

It’s about time I created some telling time worksheets for you! All this week I have been sharing insect and bug themed printables and activities. The week started with butterfly themed shape mats. Next, you are given a set of caterpillar printables that focused on counting money. Yesterday I shared a printable coding activity that focused on the life cycle of a spider.

Telling Time Worksheets

Getting the Printables

The first thing you will need to do is print out a copy of Telling Time with Ladybugs. You will probably want to print the clock and the clock hands out on card stock. Paper clocks and clock hands will probably tear. While they were created in color, you can certainly use them in black and white.

Putting the Clock Together

Then you or your children can put together the ladybug clock. You will find it easy to put together. After cutting out the hands the clock from card stock, you will need to poke a small hole center of the clock. Small holes will also need to be placed near the flat end of each of the clock hands.

A small brad will need to be placed in the hands and then into the hole in the clock. Once it is in place, the ends of the brad will need to be flattened.

Activities for the Telling Time Worksheets

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Before you start exploring the clock and the telling time worksheets, you may want to read The Grouchy Ladybug. It is fun children’s book that focuses on time and ladybugs!

Next, you will want to explore the clocks with your children. If you feel they need to review where the minute hand needs to be to show the hour and half hour, please take the time to do that.

Finally, your children can use their clocks to help them figure our the time on each of the clocks on the telling time worksheets. You can have them work on their own or with a friend.