🕒 Telling Time: O’Clock and Quarter Past

⏰ What Is Time?

Time tells us when things happen — like when we wake up, go to school, eat lunch, or play with friends.
We use a clock to tell the time.

A clock has two hands:

• 🖐️ The short hand is the hour hand. It shows the hour.

• ✋ The long hand is the minute hand. It shows the minutes.

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🕛 O’Clock

When the minute hand points to 12, we say it is O’Clock.
The hour hand shows which hour it is.

📍Examples:

• When the short hand points to 3 and the long hand points to 12, it is 3 o’clock.

• When the short hand points to 7 and the long hand points to 12, it is 7 o’clock.

🗣️ We say: “It’s three o’clock.” or “It’s seven o’clock.”

👉 Remember:
O’Clock means a full hour, when the long hand is straight up at 12.

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🕐 Quarter Past

When the minute hand points to 3, it means a quarter past the hour.

🕒 One hour is divided into four quarters:

• 15 minutes + 15 minutes + 15 minutes + 15 minutes = 60 minutes

So when the minute hand has moved 15 minutes from 12, we say “quarter past.”

📍Examples:

• When the short hand is just past 2 and the long hand points to 3, it is quarter past 2.

• When the short hand is just past 5 and the long hand points to 3, it is quarter past 5.

🗣️ We say: “It’s quarter past two.” or “It’s quarter past five.”

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🌟 Quick Practice

Draw clocks and show the following time.

1. 4 o’clock 

2. Quarter past 4

3. 9 o’clock 

4. Quarter past 9 

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💡 Fun Tip

If you imagine the clock as a pizza 🍕,
then O’Clock is when the pizza is whole.
Quarter past means you’ve eaten one quarter (1 out of 4 slices)!

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