Learning Resources LER3214 Time Small Group Activity Set of 6

Easy use for students to practice and quiz each other.

These are fantastic. They're really good, sturdy quality. The hands are easy to move but really hard to harm. I homeschool and plan to use these with my 2 youngest kids (with my older kids tagging along) so everyone gets a clock. And I have enough to bring to a coop class to let small groups of kids use them in class.These are perfect for ages 4-7. Even some 8 year olds are still learning and mastering how to read an analog clock.The games included offer some nice variety in teaching how to tell time. It hit's on a few different learning styles and can be done one-on-one or in a small group.It is very teacher-led. The clock doesn't tell a child if they're right or not. That's ok with me. But know you can't just hand a child this set and expect the games to teach him without an older child or adult's guidance.

This is a really useful set - I love the combo of the clocks plus the boards and the cards. Makes it easy to design lots of different activities.Minus a star because as others have mentioned, it's a PITA to have to turn the minute hand in order to get the hour to move. While it's instructionally sound, reinforcing the idea that hours are made up of minutes, the random nature of the games means you might be moving across the whole clock and that is annoying for younger kids. The other is because the dice are...wth. Just use regular dice material. They can't be that much more expensive!Love the hands-on instruction. If they can fix the hand movement, it'll be a great set.

This set is more or less as expected with the following qualifiers:- It's a cheap set made of inferior plastic. You can just tell instantly handling it that it's not as good as other sets.- The clocks are smaller than is the norm, but certainly not too small to work with.- The hour hands do not move independently. If you want to go from 1 o'clock to 6 o'clock, you're going to spend some time rotating the minute hand.- I'm getting so sick of this happening that I have to comment on it. The plastic bags that the individual items are packaged in are just gross. As soon as I handle them, I have to wash residue off of my hands. This has happening far too often. Maybe plastic bags + a long trip from China = leaking plastic bags.This set is best for use with small groups in an educational setting.

We bought my son an analog wrist watch when he was 4 years old. Taught him how to read the hour hand, but we had no idea how to teach him the minute one since he could not yet count beyond 12 or so at the time. So, when telling time, we told him to read 7:45am, for example, as "Time is 7 o'clock and 9".With this time practice kit and now that he knows how to read numbers as high as 9,999, we completed the training by having him now read what the minute hand truly means. Within about a week, he was able to memorize that the 9 o'clock position means 45 minutes. Mission accomplished.Did we really need this kit? Not really. We could have drawn the clocks and minute marks ourselves too.