This song is available on Hap Palmer's Can Cockatoos Count by Twos?
Objectives:
· Mirror different positions of clock hands
· Identify numerals one through twelve
· Read a clock to state time on the hour.
Materials:
AA large cardboard clock
Setting:
Children stand by their seats or in an open area. They face the cardboard clock. One person places the clock hands in positions to indicate the times named in the song.
Activity:
Use your arms to mirror the hands on the clock. During the chorus, dance in place as you circle and swing you arms anyway you like.
Lyrics:
Chorus:
I am a jolly clock I am
See me dance and move my hands
How I love to tell the time of day
In the early morning light
Or when the stars come out at night
I can say most any time of day
I swing my hands to 10 o'clock,
see me saying 10 o'clock
I swing my hands to 4 o'clock,
see me saying 4 o'clock
I raise my hands to 12 o'clock,
see me saying 12 o'clock
I drop one hand to 6 o'clock,
see me saying 6 o'clock
I swing my hands to 7 o'clock,
see my saying 7 o'clock
I swing my hands to 3 o'clock,
see my saying 3 o'clock
Repeat Chorus
I swing my hands to 2 o'clock,
see me saying 2 o'clock
I swing my hands to 8 o'clock,
see me saying 8 o'clock
I raise my hands to 1 o'clock,
see me saying 1 o'clock
I drop one hand to 5 o'clock,
see me saying 5 o'clock
I swing my hands to 11 o'clock,
see my saying 11 o'clock
I swing my hands to 9 o'clock,
see my saying 9 o'clock
Repeat Chorus
Follow Up:
After students have mastered telling time on the hour, they can move on to telling time on the half and
quarter hour with the advanced version of Jolly Clock
Advanced Verses:
Chorus
Breakfast time is 6:30, see me saying 6:30
I go to school at 8:15, see me saying 8:15
Story time is 10:45, see me saying 10:45
I eat my lunch at 11:30, see me saying 11:30
I play with friends at 12:15, see me saying 12:15
Recess ends at 1:00 o'clock, see me saying 1:00 o'clock
Repeat Chorus
I leave my school at 3:15, see me saying 3:15
I read a book at 4:30, see me saying 4:30
Dinner time is 5:15 see me saying 5:15
I go to bed at 7:30 see me saying 7:30
The puppy barks at 9:45, see me saying 9:45
The baby wakes at 2:00 am see me saying 2:00 o'clock
Repeat Chorus
Book or Product Suggestions for this Song:
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