Leap Year Lessons: Activities For Leap Day Part 4

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Leapin' Lizards What Time Is It? Time Bomb Leap Day Game

Leapin’ Lizards Time Bomb is a fun way to help your students learn how to tell time, and is perfect for any day, but I designed it specifically for a special Leap Day activitiy.

Here’s how to play this Leap Day Game:

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Students color their lizard with markers.

Using a protractor, poke a hole in the middle of the clock.

Cover with a reinforcement hole on the front and back.

This will help prevent tearing.

Insert a brad and a large and small paperclip that will be used as hands for the clock.

The teacher sets a timer.

Decide what digital time cards you want students to work on. I’ve made cards for the hour, half hour, quarter after and quarter to, plus a blank set for you to fill in any other times you want your students to practice.

Students put those clock cards face down.

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Children play in groups of 2-4, taking turns pulling a card from the pile.

Each child has a time card. They circle the time that they pull on their time sheet, and rotate the paperclips on their leapin’ lizard clock to show the correct time.

If they get a time bomb card they lose their turn.

When the timer rings, students count up their circled times, the one who has leaped through time the most is the winner.

If you have enough hole punches, have students use them, as they help strengthen students’ hand muscles and make for a great fine motor skill.

Turn the Time Cards into real old-fashioned time cards by having students “punch” the times that they pull.

When the timer rings, children count up the number of holes that they have next to the times on their time cards.

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Click on the link to view/download Leapin Lizard Time Bomb Leap Day Game

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There’s also a graphing extension that goes with the booklet.

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Be sure and leap on in tomorrow for yet another idea!


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