A Childs' Introduction to Telling Time - Part 1
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00:00To help your child make the best use of this videotape, cut out the clock face and hands on the box and assemble them into a cardboard clock. That will make learning to tell time even more fun.
00:19A child's introduction to telling time.
00:22Time to get up.
00:34What time is it?
00:36Seven o'clock. You know, little hands on the seven, big hands on twelve.
00:42Very funny, Mom. Okay, I'm up.
00:47Well, let's get going, pal. You know you've got to get dressed, walk the dog, eat your breakfast, and the bus is coming at eight o'clock.
00:55So much to do. It seems there's never enough time.
01:00It's seven o'clock and before you know it, it's seven-oh-two.
01:08I'd like to stay here in bed for a while, but there's so much to do.
01:14It's ten after seven. I'm washing my face. This water's cold.
01:19I've got to get dressed. I've got to get going before the day gets old.
01:25There's so much to do and never enough time to do it.
01:30It seems like you're just getting started on something and you run out of time to get through it.
01:37Seven-fifteen. I've got my breakfast. I'm as hungry as a dinosaur.
01:43A bowl of screaming crunchos, a glass of cold juice, and I'm out the door.
01:48My big dog Spock pulls me round the block. It's seven-twenty-three.
01:54I brush my teeth, I comb my hair, and it's off to school for me.
01:59Wait a second. You almost forgot your lunch.
02:02Oh, thanks, Mom. Bye. I'm meeting Bobby to play ball in the park. I'll be home at five o'clock.
02:08Okay. Have a good day.
02:10There's so much to do and never enough time to do it.
02:16It seems like you're just getting started on something and you run out of time to get through it.
02:21It's eight o'clock and I'm right on time. There goes the town clock tower's chime.
02:32I'm off to school and there's oh so much to do.
02:38Yes, it's eight o'clock. That's when the big hand is on the twelve and the little hand is on the eight.
02:46Nick is faced with a very busy day, just like you.
02:50Lots of things to do, so he's always got to know what time it is.
02:55In fact, by the time Nick's day is through, he will come to know just how important it is to be in the right place at the right time.
03:05Nick has made it to school by nine o'clock, on time, of course.
03:10That means that the big hand is on the twelve and the little hand is on the nine.
03:15Let's look in on band practice and see how things are going.
03:21Quiet, children, quiet. We are wasting time.
03:25I've told you time and time again, band begins at nine o'clock sharp.
03:30Now, as you all know, today is time day here at school.
03:35Everybody at school is doing something relating to time.
03:39The people in the kitchen have made a great big carrot cake in the shape of a clock.
03:45At the end of the day, when you have learned how to tell time, the band is going to play the clock song
03:52and everyone in school will sing and dance and have carrot cake to eat.
03:59Is everybody ready to practice the clock song?
04:02Okay. Nick, you are a drummer. Start things off.
04:06And one, two, three, four.
04:11Clap your hands to the beat of the clock song, clap your hands with me.
04:16Nine o'clock, ten o'clock, eleven o'clock, twelve, one o'clock, two o'clock, three.
04:21A clock is the very best way to learn the time of day.
04:27It tells you when to go to school and sleep and eat and play.
04:32Though it has no eyes or nose or mouth, a clock still has a face.
04:37And on that face are numbers and two hands that run a race.
04:42Oh! Clap your hands to the beat of the clock song, clap your hands with me.
04:48Nine o'clock, ten o'clock, eleven o'clock, twelve, one o'clock, two o'clock, three.
04:53A clock has lots of gears and wheels and springs and things stuck in it
04:58to make those hands go round and tell the hour and the minute.
05:03The hour hand's the little hand, it runs at a very slow pace.
05:09It takes all night and through the day to go two times round the face.
05:14The minute hand is the minute hand, it moves a little quicker.
05:19These two hands running around the face make a great time-telling ticker.
05:24Oh! Clap your hands to the beat of the clock song, clap your hands with me.
05:30Nine o'clock, ten o'clock, eleven o'clock, twelve, one o'clock, two o'clock, three.
05:35Minute hand is on the twelve, hour hand's on the ten.
05:40That's ten o'clock, well, it's time to stop, so let's do it once again, everybody.
05:46Clap your hands to the beat of the clock song, clap your hands with me.
05:51Nine o'clock, ten o'clock, eleven o'clock, twelve, one o'clock, two o'clock, three.
05:56Yeah!
05:57Excellent, children, excellent. You played it perfectly.
06:02Ah, there's the bell. Ten o'clock.
06:05Put your instruments away and I'll see you all this afternoon.
06:09I know everyone in school is going to love the clock song.
06:13While Nick is on his way to class, let's see how things are going at home.
06:18Hmm, it looks like things are about as usual.
06:22The baby is crying, the phone is ringing, the pudding is starting to boil over on the stove,
06:27and there goes the doorbell.
06:29Oh, I'll be there in a second.
06:32It's going to take Mom more than a second to get to the door.
06:36Why? Because a second is a very short bit of time.
06:40How short is it? Just watch.
06:43Did you see that? That colorful clock was before your eyes for just one second.
06:49It wasn't long, was it? Look again.
06:53Pretty quick, that second.
06:55I have an idea. Let's play a memory game.
06:58I thought you were in school, Nick.
07:00Oh, well, it's eleven o'clock. Little hands on the eleven, big hands on the twelve.
07:08Recess time. I just thought I'd check in.
07:11What kind of memory game did you have in mind?
07:14Well, a second may seem like a short time, but it is long enough for some things.
07:21For instance, that clock face we all saw for just a second.
07:26We didn't see it for a very long time,
07:28but I'll bet it was long enough for you to remember the color of the parts of the clock.
07:34What color was the face?
07:37Yellow. That's right. How about the hands?
07:41Good for you. You remembered blue.
07:45Now for the hard one.
07:47Can you remember, even though you only saw them for one second, the color of the numbers?
07:57Red. I knew you'd remember.
08:01And you saw them for only one second.
08:05It's a funny thing. A second can be short for some things, but just long enough for others.
08:13Uh-oh. Recess is over. Guess I'd better get back to class.
08:18It'll only take a second.
08:21Now things have quieted down a little at home.
08:24The baby is taking a nap, and Mom can go back to the kitchen.
08:28She's making pudding for dessert tonight,
08:30and the directions say that she has to stir it for exactly one minute.
08:35Do you know what a minute is?
08:37Why, it's an amount of time.
08:40How much time?
08:41Well, in this case, it's just enough time to make Mom's pudding perfect.
08:47Remember what we were talking about a second ago?
08:50That's right. We were talking about the second.
08:53And when you take 60 of those seconds,
08:57you have the time it takes to make a minute.
09:00I can think of all kinds of things that you can do in a minute.
09:04Why, you can even take a minute to think up lots of things to do.
09:07I'll set this timer for one minute,
09:10and show you what I mean.
09:14Well, you can run a race or wash your face,
09:16comb your hair, pick clothes to wear,
09:18dress yourself or clean your shelf,
09:20fry an egg, hop on one leg.
09:22A minute isn't over?
09:24Wow, I'll have to think up more stuff now.
09:28Well, you can feed your dog or catch a frog,
09:30tie your shoe or make some goo,
09:32write a song and sing along,
09:34squash some bugs or wash some rugs,
09:36clean a dish, catch a fish,
09:38eat some soup or even join a group.
09:40A minute isn't over yet?
09:42I'll think up still more stuff, I bet.
09:46You can write a letter, or even better,
09:48paint a box or mend your socks,
09:50trim your nails and dress up nice,
09:52move a chair, cook minute rice,
09:54sweep the floor, close the door,
09:56do a chore, my brain is sore.
09:58A minute's still not over?
10:00I'll think up some more stuff to do.
10:02Climb some trees or eat some peas,
10:04run upstairs, run downstairs,
10:06skip some rope, buy some soap,
10:08sing Bo Peep, go to sleep.
10:10Is it over now?
10:12It isn't?
10:14Now it's over.
10:16Oh, my goodness.
10:18Even I didn't realize how many things
10:20you can do in one minute.
10:22Not only that, most of the things
10:24in the song only take around a minute to do.
10:26Can you imagine how many things
10:28you can get done with all the minutes
10:30there are in one day?
10:32How many minutes are there
10:34in a day anyway?
10:36Why, let's see.
10:38Hmm. Times 60.
10:40Ah.
10:421,440 minutes in a day.
10:44But you get to sleep
10:46for about 480 of them.
10:48Oh, dear.
10:50Only 960 minutes of daytime?
10:52And I've still got so much to do.
10:54Get supper ready,
10:56do the laundry, tend the garden,
10:58do the breakfast dishes, wash the floor...
11:00While Mom tries to use the minutes
11:02in her day as best she can,
11:04let's look in on Nick,
11:06who is back at school.
11:08Science is just beginning,
11:10and Nick is about to start his report
11:12on the history of time.
11:14I'm really glad about that,
11:16but I've always wondered how this whole time thing
11:18got started.
11:20Let's listen.
11:22The important thing I found out about time
11:24is that it helps you to know
11:26when something is happening.
11:28A long, long time ago,
11:30it wasn't so important
11:32to know when something was happening
11:34because nothing much
11:36was happening.
11:38In the days of the cavemen,
11:40people didn't have to worry too much
11:42about what time it was.
11:44What time is it?
11:46What?
11:48What time is it?
11:50Oh, let me see.
11:52Ah, it's daytime.
11:54Good.
11:56I'm hungry.
11:58Let's go get a dinosaur and have him for lunch.
12:00Good idea.
12:02I'll bring the ketchup.
12:04Oh.
12:10That was good.
12:12I'm full.
12:14Say, what time is it?
12:18Hey, I said, what time is it?
12:24It's nighttime.
12:26Go to sleep.
12:28Oh.
12:30Nighttime.
12:32Boy, I'm sure glad one of us can tell time.
12:34Good night.
12:36Slurp.
12:38Slurp.
12:40Once people got daytime and nighttime
12:42figured out, they started to pay
12:44more attention to when things
12:46were happening.
12:48What time is it?
12:50Why do you keep asking me that?
12:52Because changes keep
12:54happening over and over
12:56again.
12:58Good for you. You noticed.
13:00It's wintertime.
13:02Let's go inside and
13:04wait for it to get warmer.
13:06Good idea.
13:08What time will it be then?
13:10Springtime?
13:12Ha, ha, ha, ha.
13:14That's right.
13:16Oh.
13:18It was enough for cavemen to know
13:20that night was followed by day
13:22and that the seasons of the year were
13:24winter, spring, summer,
13:26and fall.
13:28But as time went by,
13:30the world started to fill up
13:32all needing to do things
13:34together. Working,
13:36playing, going to
13:38church.
13:40With all this stuff going on,
13:42people had to know, even
13:44more than they did before,
13:46when things were happening.
13:48That's how clocks started to be
13:50made. A clock tells you
13:52what time of day or night it is.
13:54I was wondering
13:56how clocks were first made
13:58and this is what I found out.
14:00Those same cavemen
14:02who noticed that night followed
14:04day, noticed that
14:06during the day, the sun started
14:08on one side of the sky
14:10and ended up on the other side.
14:12As the sun
14:14moved, the shadows that it made
14:16moved too. So the
14:18caveman could say to his cave
14:20wife,
14:22Dear, the tree shadow is
14:24by the big rock.
14:26I'm meeting Erg
14:28and we're going down to the river
14:30to catch fish.
14:32I'll be home when the shadow
14:34is touching the bush
14:36on the other side of the yard.
14:38That's nice, dear.
14:40Have a good day.
14:42From the sun making a shadow on the tree,
14:44people figured out
14:46how to make sundials.