Lesson 9: What’s the Time, Mr. Wolf?
Online Reading: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gz3wW5DLJ78&list=PLAOf8AqR19ZEPqXm9DdY8-kK-lCkj5rRZ&index=15
Vocab Focus:
1 – 12 o’clock
Time
Clock
Songs:
What’s the Time, Mr. Wolf Song
Activities:
Clock Practice-
Introduce a clock and review numbers 1 to 12. Start by bringing in a clock or alternatively using pictures of a clock with its hands at different times. Elicit and chorus
the word “clock” with the students. Then point to number 1 and elicit the number. Point to each number 1-12 in order and elicit the numbers (you can move the hour
hand around as you do this).
Gestures-
Stand everyone in front of you. Say “Point your hands at 1 o’clock” and demonstrate how to do this (hold one arm straight up at 12 and the other at 1). Then say “Point your hands at 2 o’clock” … continue all the way round to 12 o’clock.
Make your Own Clock-
Have the students make their own clock! Read the book again and have the students change the time on their clock to match the one in the book.
Draw the Time!
Draw a big clock on the board. Say a time, and then call a student to come up to the board and draw the hands on the clock at the proper placement.
Games:
What’s the Time, Mr. Wolf?
One player is chosen to be Mr Wolf. Mr Wolf stands at the opposite end of the playing field from the other players, facing away from them. A call-and-response then takes place: all players except for Mr Wolf chant in unison “What’s the time, Mr Wolf?”, and Mr Wolf will answer in one of the two ways:
1) Mr Wolf may call a clock time (e.g., “3 o’clock”). The other players will then take that many steps out long as they go (“One, two, three”). Then they ask the question again.
2) Mr Wolf may call “Dinner time!”, when Mr Wolf will turn around and chase the other players back to their starting point. If Mr Wolf successfully tags a player, that player becomes the new Mr Wolf for the next round.
Beach Ball –
Cut out the different clocks, as found here. and tape them up around the room. After that, gather all the students in a circle. Throw a beach ball or another ball up into the air. When a student catches the ball, they must call out a time, such as 12 o’clock. Then, all the students must run over and touch the sheet of paper that has the correct time.
What’s the Time?
Draw a big clock on the board. Assign each hour an action, such as “jump” or “sing.” So, one o’clock would be “run” and two o’clock would be “jump,” etc. Have the students collectively call out “What time is it?” and then you should back answer with a time. Whatever action is associated with that time, the students must do.