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My Book of Telling Time: Learning About Minutes (Kumon Workbooks)

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This book teaches children how to tell the time in the most simplistic, yet effective way, that even a child who has trouble learning will get it! The graphics are very appealing yet do not distract from the subject matter being taught. When a child has completed this book, they will be able to tell any time on an analog clock. I would recommend completing all of the pages, even if the first few seem a bit easy. These pages help to reinforce the concept of telling time and lets the child build confidence for the lessons that come later.

This book teaches how to tell time with minutes in an easy to understand, visual way. I bought this for my 6 year old son and he is learning with ease. The book is very high quality. I also bought several of their other books for gifts and have been very pleased with every one. I highly recommend the Kumon products!

I am a teacher and have taught many children to tell time. Now I am teaching my 6 year old son. I saw this book on Amazon while searching for his first real watch. I needed to spend a little more for free shipping. So glad I picked this book. It is very repetitive. It starts out, like most methods, teaching time to the hour. But while other methods then teach time to the 1/2 hour, this method starts with time to the minute. It goes from 8:00 to 8:01. Each minute is marked with a number. It continues, 8:02,8:03 and so on. I think this will help kids to make that leap of reading time to the minute much quicker. I highly recommend this book.

We liked it. Dd age 6 at the time thought the beginning exercises were too easy so we skipped those. I appreciated the concentrated study of time concepts and my dd liked the colorful format.

Great book. My 7 year old whiz through the entire workbook fast. A day after completing the workbook, she was able to read a watch with no numbers just lines.

I bought this for my 4 year old to do over the summer break before Pre-K starts. It has been a WONDERFUL purchase. It eases the child into the "clock" concept while also reinforcing how to write numbers. We enjoyed doing this book cover to cover and we were able to actually combine other learning opportunities into it. I found it to be very age appropriate for my very normal (average intelligence) 4 year old. Your child doesn't even need to have a solid grasp on number recognition to begin the workbook, in fact it can help with that skill. It does become more complex, but used in conjunction with a few other Kumon books I feel it's really helped him prepare for pre-k.

My son is actually 4 1/2, but he could tell time in minutes using both analog and digital clocks.

We did have a little difficulty with "a quarter to," and "a quarter past." Everyone I know says "fifteen minutes after," or "fifteen minutes until," and my son wanted to know why someone would say "a quarter to ten" instead of 9:45, especially since that is how it looks on a digital. Although, having the minutes labeled was very helpful.

I strongly recommend completing My Book Of Numbers 1-30 and My Book Of Numbers 1-120 before you introduce your child to the telling time workbooks. Also, completing My Book of Easy Telling Time: Learning about Hours and Half-Hours first is a good idea.

My 5-year-old daughter has just started using this book and already she has grasped the concept of hours, minutes and seconds.

Kumon is quickly becoming a family favorite. My 3 year old love puzzles and the Kumon workbooks are easy to follow, give direction to parents, and make it easy to get the next book in your child's progression.
My 3 year old is telling time by looking at a face clock. I know the Kumon series of books is helping him every day. They are fun and he is eager to learn using them.

Initially I was a little hesitant in buying this book for my daughter. I was note sure if it can help, but this book is excellent. I have bought many other books from kumon and I have been mostly happy about it. I would highly recommend this book.