This time game is modeled after the story of "Little Red Riding Hood." The teacher starts out as the Big Bad Wolf. With the teacher's back facing the children, in an open space, children stand at one end while the wolf stands at the opposite end. The children — or Little Red Riding Hoods — ask the wolf, "What's the time, Big Bad Wolf?" The teacher responds by shouting out a number on the clock. The children take the number of steps that correlate with that hour toward the wolf. This goes on until the wolf responds, "It is dinnertime!" At that point, the wolf captures a child before the child is able to return to the safety of the starting point. Whichever child is caught becomes the Big Bad Wolf and the game continues on.
Time Bingo is another fun game to play to demonstrate the relationship between analog and digital time. Provide Bingo cards for each student, with five rows and five columns each of various analog times. With the digital time written on the board, the child places a scrap of paper over that time if found on the card. Times are called out until the first child to cover five blocks in a row calls out “Bingo!” and is the winner.
A great way for children to get a sense for the duration of time is to play Beat The Clock Game, which is a fun race against the clock. Set a timer for 10 minutes and hide it. The first child to find and turn off the timer before the timer goes off is the winner of that round. For the next round, set it for a different amount of time so that children experience the feeling of different time intervals.
While children are sitting in a circle, play music as a clock travels around the circle with each child passing it to the person beside her. Stop the music and call out a time. The child holding the clock when the music stops moves the hands to the designated time. The music starts, the clock travels again, and that child calls out the time for the next round.