At seven o'clock, Tock wakes up. The sun is up too. “Good morning, clock!”
At twelve o'clock, Tock eats lunch. Both hands point up. Twelve!
At eight o'clock, Tock goes to bed. The short hand points to eight. “Hoo-hoo, goodnight!”
TodayTime & clocksAges 6–715 minutes
What TimeIs It?
A clock has two hands. Today the long hand sits on the 12, and the short hand tells us the hour. When you know the hour, you can say the time: o'clock!
Tock the Owl says
“Hoo-hoo! Point to a number on my clock and watch the short hand go there. Then push and drag it too. Go on — try it!”
- Set the clock
- Read the time
- Match my day
- Read Tock's day
Drag me!
3:00
you can saythree o'clock
1
Meet the clock
Hover or tap a row. The clock shows you that part in yellow.
- AShort hand = the hourGrown-ups call it the hour hand. It points at a number.
- BLong hand = the minutesThe minute hand. Today it lives on the 12.
- CTwelve numbers1, 2, 3 … all the way to 12. Then it starts again.
- DThe middle dotBoth hands turn around this little dot. Tick, tock!
2say them out loud!
How to read it — three easy steps
1
Find the long hand
Is the long hand on the 12? Good. That means we say o'clock.
long hand on 12
2
Look at the short hand
Which number is the short hand pointing to? That number is the hour.
pointing to 5
3
Say it out loud
Say the number, then “o'clock”. “Five o'clock!” You did it.
five o'clock
Thelonghandonthetwelve, theshorthandtellsthehour—
Tick,tock,tick,tock o'clock!
Tap the words as you chant. Clap on o'clock! (3 times and you'll remember it all day.)
35 to win
Game: Set the clock
Your turn
Show me 6 o'clock
Tap a number, or drag the short hand. Then press Check.
46 clocks
Game: What time is it?
Which one says it right?
5tap a card, then tap a clock
Match my day
6look at the clocks
Tock's day — read with me
Can you find your bedtime on the big clock at the top?
★
Your sticker chart
Finish all four things and Tock gives you the Time Explorer Badge.
Time Explorer
Month 2 · Lesson 7
4 stickers to go!
Grown-up corner
No screens needed — five minutes of this is worth fifty clicks.
- Call out a time: “Nine o'clock!” Your child points the short hand at 9 on a real clock and says the time back.
- Swap: they call out a time, you point. Get one wrong on purpose and see if they catch you. Kids love correcting grown-ups.
- Ask only about the hour hand at first. The long hand stays on the 12 for this lesson.
- Paper plate, split pin (or a blu-tack lump), two cardboard hands. Write 12, 3, 6, 9 first, then fill in the rest together.
- Colour the short hand red and the long hand blue so the words stick.
- Keep it on the fridge and ask for the time once a day this week.
- “The big hand is on the 12 — it's o'clock! What hour?”
- Bedtime, cartoons, dinner: name the hour, never the minutes, until o'clock is automatic.
- Next lesson: half past. Don't jump ahead — a solid hour sense is what makes halves easy.
Set: 6 → 6:00Wake up: 7:00School: 9:00Lunch: 12:00Bedtime: 8:00