Send a pupil to the blackboard clock with a pointer; have him point to one o’clock, two o’clock, etc.
Let others do the same, but do not continue till the attention of the class wavers.
Let pupils count the minutes, by turns, each commencing where the one preceding him left off, always following the course of the hands of a clock.
Tell the Pupils That:
It is not our work to do the pointing nor the counting. The hour and minute hands on the face of a clock always do that to tell us what time it is.
The minute hand counts the minutes, and the hour hand points to the hours.
When the hour hand points to 1, it is one o’clock.
When the hour hand points to 2, it is two o’clock, etc.
Let us play it is dinner time. The hour and minute hands are home together, ready to start out and go around again. They are always ready to go and they always go the right way. They never go the wrong way. The minute hand goes all the way around, counts all the minutes and gets back home while the hour hand goes to only one figure, and then we know it is one o’clock, because the hour hand is pointing to it. The minute hand gets home just at the same time that the hour hand points to any hour.
There are twelve hours on the face of the clock.