Learn about Telling Time

It’s just about time for Daylight Saving Time to start in most of the United States (and it’s coming up in other places soon), so it seems like a good time to talk about time.

As an aside, if your kids have trouble with the time change (or you do!) these tips from Tiny Beans might help.

If you want to start talking about time with kids, read The Grouchy Ladybug and use the printables from Math Geek Mama to talk about the times different things happen in the story and different ways to express time (in words, with numbers on a digital clock, and with numbers and the hands of an analog clock). The printables are free in her shop.

Another fun way to talk about time is with these printable playdough mats from This Reading Mama. They include a clock face with no hands and a space for writing a time in numbers. You can give kids a time, they make the hands of the clock with playdough and then put the hands where they need to be for the time you want.

123 Homeschool 4 Me has collected a bunch of great resources for learning about telling time, including games, craft projects and printables. They’re arranged by type of activity and the age of the kids you’re working with.

Proud to Be Primary’s telling time resources focus on telling time in the classroom and what concepts can be taught to different grades of students. The post mostly focuses on resources you can buy in her Teachers Pay Teachers store, which is great if you have a full classroom to teach.

You can also go big with your time telling practice by using a hula hoop as a clock! Check out the ideas at I Know It, and consider how fun this would be to do outside! You could use sidewalk chalk to draw the numbers, and use branches or even the kids themselves as the hands of the clock.

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Learn about Time for Daylight Saving Time

A lot of kids aren’t in school for the Fourth of July, but whether you’re in a classroom or at home, you’ll probably want to mark July 4, 2026, in a special way because it is America’s 250th birthday. And there are lots of ways to learn and celebrate, as we’ll see below.

The Homeschool Bee has a big bundle of resources for the big day, including timelines, information about the founding fathers, silly word fill ins, pages showing the evolution of the American flag and information on constitutional amendments. In all it is 35 pages and it’s great for a variety of ages. You can find it on Teachers Pay Teachers.

Another printable activity set, this one aimed at grades 2-5, is available on TpT from George Kipriot Classroom Resources. This one includes a word search, crossword puzzle, maze, word scramble, coloring pages and more, plus a timeline and reading about the Declaration of Independence.

It wouldn’t be a birthday party without party hats, and there are a few different versions of print, color and cut party hats with a patriotic theme at Teachers Pay Teachers. The Internet Research Project has a set with an Uncle Sam kind of hat, a crown with the Statue of Liberty on it and one that says America 250.

There’s also a Happy Birthday America hat from Sweet Sensations, which features the years, fireworks and the Statue of Liberty and declaration of Independence.

You can find a lot of Fourth of July coloring pages with a 250th birthday theme. For example Britts Digital Paper Co on Etsy has some cute pages, including a patriotic goose reading a book for some reason (I also like their printable firework craft). eParenting also has an America 250 coloring page that includes the shape of the country and an American flag.

And if you want to try some more general Fourth of July projects, check out this collection of patriotic STEM activities from Homeschool Giveaways. Make your own “fireworks,” sensory activities, make a fizzy flag, build a graham cracker White House and more.

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