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Our time worksheets review the units of time (seconds vs minutes ...) and then focus on telling time : the reading of clocks. These worksheets also cover elapsed time ( What time will it be in 3 hours? ), am/pm, the days of the week and reading calendars.

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Free Printable Telling Time Worksheets

Learning to tell time and read clocks is a fundamental part of a young child’s education and a skill they’ll likely use on a daily basis. The process of learning to tell time can foster a strong foundation in mathematical concepts.

Understanding the concept of hours, minutes, and seconds, as well as the relationship between numbers and the hands of a clock, introduces children to basic math principles like counting, addition, and subtraction. 

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The ABCmouse Time Telling Worksheets are geared towards children in kindergarten and grade 1 through grade 2. Each worksheet is designed to give your child the opportunity to practice reading a clock, as they work to understand what each of the hands on a clock mean, as well as the numbers and minute markers. You’ll find the following in this bundle of telling time worksheets:

• Telling time to the hour worksheets
• Telling time to the half hour worksheets
• Telling time to the quarter hour worksheets
• Telling time to the minute worksheets

Kids learn at different rates. If you feel like your kindergartener is ready to start learning to read clocks or your first or second grader needs to review telling time, these worksheets can help. Simply download and print out the worksheets so your child can learn and review at their own pace.

Tips for Using Your Free Printable Telling Time Worksheets

Recommended for: Kindergarten, Grade 1–Grade 2

⭐ Hours, Then Minutes

Children typically learn to tell time by understanding whole hours and half-hours first, and move on to learning about quarter-hours and five-minute intervals, then minute-to-minute intervals.

⭐ More Practice Opportunities

Use the blank space on the back of these worksheets to draw more clocks and challenge your child to either identify the time you’ve drawn on the clock or to draw the minute and hour hands onto the clock for a specific time you give them.

⭐ Clock Spotter

Clocks are all around us. Help your child spot clocks around them and encourage them to determine the time on the clock. If you encounter mostly digital clocks, ask your child to picture what the time would look like on an analog clock or to show you which numbers on the digital clock represent the hour and which ones represent the minutes.

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33 Fun Telling-Time Games and Activities

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Learning to tell time is an important early math lesson since it’s a real-world skill that’s used every day by everyone. Learning about minutes and hours can become tedious fast, so you’ll want to have a lot of creative and hands-on ways to bring it to life for kids. Regardless of whether you get crafty with a paper watch or active with musical clocks, we think your students will be sure to have a good time learning all things time. There are, of course, old standbys on our list too like books and worksheets. Kids can even get in some extra practice with a free online game or two. Check out our personal favorite telling-time games to try with the kiddos in your life.

Hands-On Activities for Telling Time

Online Telling-Time Games

1. Make a paper clock

One of the trickier aspects of telling time is understanding how the number 1 also means 5 minutes, the number 2 means 10 minutes, and so on. This paper clock activity helps students make that connection. (Pro tip: Use paper plates to make this craft even easier.)

Get tutorial:  How to Make a Clock to Teach Time  

2. Color the spaces to learn the hours

Another important concept kids need to grasp is how the spaces between the numbers work on an analog clock. These coloring games are a simple way to teach kids about telling time, but it helps drive the point home. Grab the free printable at the link.

Learn more:  Teaching Kids to Tell Time Past the Hour  

3. Put a puzzle together

Use these telling-time puzzle games to demonstrate different ways of showing the same time. We especially love this version .

Learn more:  How To Teach Telling Time in Second Grade

4. Wear paper watches

First, print and cut out the free printable paper watches available at the link below. Draw hands on each clock face and record what time each student’s watch reads on a master record sheet. Have kids decorate their watch bands, then fasten them on their wrists and add the clock faces. Give each student a record sheet, then let them go around the room and ask each of their classmates, “What time is it?” They look at their classmate’s watch and record the time. Check their results against your master.

Get tutorial: Paper Watch Craft for Kids

5. Make a clock with linking math cubes

This telling-time game helps kids understand time both as a circular analog clock and a time line moving forward. Gather your math cubes and visit the link to see how it works.

Learn more: Telling Time Is Easy Peasy

6. Make a rock clock

Part art lesson, part math, and part science, this is the ultimate time-telling activity. First, get outside to collect the sticks and rocks. Second, have kids paint their rocks with acrylic paint. Finally, have them set their “clocks” to different times.

Get tutorial: Teach Kids How To Tell Time

7. Take it outside with a Hula-Hoop clock

Pull out the sidewalk chalk and head outside for some time-telling practice. Hula-Hoops make perfect analog clocks, but if you don’t have any, you can still let kids play fun time-telling games by simply drawing circles instead.

Learn more:  Hula-Hoop and Chalk Clocks

8. Set the time with play dough

Create time-telling activity mats by printing a page similar to the one shown here and then placing it in a plastic sleeve or laminating it. Finally, challenge your students to roll out play dough to create the hands of the clock and “set” it to the designated time.

Learn more:  Telling Time—Clock Play Dough Mats

9. Dance around for musical clocks

If your students love games like musical chairs, you can make it an educational time-telling activity. Start by printing out our  free blank clock sheets . Pass them out and have each student draw a time on their clock, then leave it on their desk. Give each student a recording sheet (included with the clock printable), then have them grab a pencil and get ready to move! Start the music and let kids dance around from desk to desk. Stop the music and instruct them to record the name and time on the clock of the desk in front of them. Start the music again and keep on going!

10. Turn a paper plate into a clock

We love how simple this project is to re-create since all you really need are some paper plates, markers, and a metal fastener. The numbers on the outer edge help your students make the connection between the minute hand and the spoken or digital time.

Get tutorial:  Make a Paper Plate Clock

11. Shake up a carton of clocks

This awesome time-telling game also gives kids some practice at creating bar graphs. First, paste analog clock faces showing various times into the bottoms of an empty egg carton, and add a marble or other small toy. Kids shake up the carton, look to see what time the marble landed on, and graph their results.

Get tutorial:  Time Activities for First Grade

12. Add a hook to the hour hand

This time-telling trick will help your students remember that as the hour and minute hands move around, the hour still belongs to the number behind. Clever!

Learn more:  Teaching Kids To Tell Time Past the Hour

13. Write the room with I Spy Time

Post  paper analog clocks  with times filled in around the room. Students find each clock and record the time on their record sheet. For more of a challenge, write “What will the time be in ____ minutes?” underneath each clock. After students record the time showing, they calculate the future time too. Your students will have fun learning to tell time with these games.

14. Match up plastic eggs

Plastic eggs have so many uses in the classroom.  For time-telling practice, make them into games. Just draw analog clocks on one half and write times (in words or digital time) on the other, then have kids match them up.

Learn more:  Telling Time Match Up

15. Turn your classroom clock into a flower

Turn a classroom wall clock into a pretty flower that will help your students make better sense of what they are looking at. We especially love the cute way the stem reinforces which is the hour and which is the minute hand.

Get tutorial:  The Best Ideas for Kids

16. Chill out with frosty clocks

Turn a snowman face into an analog clock. Use these free printables for a variety of wintry time-telling activities.

Learn more:  Free Snowman Telling Time Activity

17. Calculate the duration of your favorite activities

Ready to tackle elapsed time? Have students use this  free printable worksheet  to record the time they spend on three different activities, at home or at school. Think: basketball practice, dance class, watching their favorite TV show, eating a banana—or doing their homework.

18. Compete to win Telling-Time Bingo

Bingo games are always a blast in the classroom, and there’s a variation you can play that’s focused on telling time. These analog clock bingo cards are customizable, so you can set them to match whatever time skills your students are working on, whether it’s hours, half hours, quarter hours, or to the minute.

Learn more:  Telling Time Bingo Cards Maker

19. Race to beat the Rush Hour clock

Use toy clocks and a die to see who can reach a goal time first. Start at 12:00 and choose the target time. Students roll the die and move their clocks ahead the specified number of minutes on each turn. Students love these time-telling games!

Learn more: Rush Hour Games

20. Don clock headbands

These clock headbands are fun to wear, and they’re also perfect for a game of “What Time Am I?” Kids ask each other questions to try to guess what time is showing on their forehead clock.

Learn more:  Time Activities for First Grade

21. Distinguish between a.m. and p.m.

This free printable is perfect for teaching the difference between a.m. and p.m. Students will relate to the activities on the worksheet and therefore connect the dots between what time of day they would typically do them.

Learn more:  Telling Time: AM and PM

22. Read books about telling time

Books are a great way to teach about so many different topics, and telling time is certainly no exception! Pick a few of your favorites and read them aloud during story time.

Buy it: Telling Time by Jules Older

23. Teach units of time with concentric circles

We love this activity since telling time is much more than just minute and hour hands on a clock. The visual representation of the smallest unit to the largest unit (and the different colors) will help students make sense of the various units of time.

Get tutorial:  Tell Time: Learning Units of Time With Concentric Circles (Printable)

Online Time Telling Games

24. Travel through time

ABCya has a lot of free online games for young kids that you can play even without a subscription. This fun time-travel game allows kids to choose whether they want to practice setting a digital or an analog clock. We especially love the time-traveling theme and the cute cartoon graphics that make this activity extra kid-friendly.

Learn more: Time Travel Game

25. Pick the right answer

This simple and free game doesn’t even require a sign-up to begin playing. We love that kids are given multiple choice options to select from when guessing the time displayed on the analog clock. Kids receive 10 points for every correct answer given and are deducted 10 points for incorrect ones. We think kids will have fun trying to beat their high scores!

Learn more: Telling Time

26. Tell time to the quarter hour

This site has a lot of different online time-telling activities across different difficulty levels. We are especially fond of the one that requires students to tell time to the quarter of an hour. Kids are presented with four different analog clock faces and asked to select which one displays the time at the bottom.

Learn more: Clockworks Practice

27. Recognize patterns

We love that this game combines learning time with pattern recognition. This website has additional time-telling games should the kids in your life master this one!

Learn more: Time Patterns

28. Personalize the learning experience

This free online game offers up a lot of room for personalization. You can select whether to identify time to the nearest hour, half hour, quarter of an hour, or even minute. You can also select a 12-hour or 24-hour clock. Depending on your child’s skill level, you can also select to play in timed or untimed modes. The adorable circus theme and bear ringmaster will keep any kid entertained!

Learn more: Telling the Time

29. Practice with elapsed time

Telling-time games that go beyond just identifying a time on a clock are some of our favorites for older kids. This one requires kids to identify the time on an analog clock and then decipher what time it will be in a certain number of hours.

Learn more: Time Teller

30. Compare digital and analog

This site begins by explaining the differences between digital and analog clocks as well as how to read each one. It then takes you through various exercises to test your understanding.

Learn more: Telling the Time: Digital and Analog

31. Make the mouse run up the clock

This is such a fun spin on identifying the time on a clock. We love the play on a classic nursery rhyme and the oh-so adorable mouse and cat graphics. Guess the right time on the cartoon grandfather clock and a cute mouse will run up it. But get it wrong and an angry cat will make itself known!

Learn more: Hickory, Dickory, Clock

32. Take a quiz

This video is advertised as being for English language learners, but it would work equally well for kids just learning to read clocks. Kids can just watch it or they can keep some scrap paper handy to record their answers.

33. Race to the correct time

What’s more fun than playing a game with friends? We love that multiple players can play against one another as their adorable giraffe avatars race to be the first one across the finish line.

Learn more: Giraffe Dash

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40 Telling the Time Activities

May 25, 2017 By: Liz

We’ve pulled together lots of links to telling the time activities from different bloggers to give you a wide range of learning options for your kids. Many include free printables or easy-to-create activities for young children with varying levels of knowledge.

Making a Clock

• Adapt a wall clock with this  classroom sun clock from 4 The Love of Family (idea only)
• Krokotak version
• Raising Arizona Kids version (free clock face printable)
• Playdough clock mats from This Reading Mama (free)
• 5 minute interval paper plate clock from Learning Ideas Grades K-8
• Playing outside with a chalk clock from Coffee Cups and Crayons
• Using a hoop from One Extra Degree

• CD clock from The Stay-at-Home Mom Survival Guide
• Clock hats from Primary Theme Park (free… scroll down to the bottom of the page to download the printable)
• New Year’s Clock from The Pinterested Parent
• Make a wristwatch craft from The Nurture Store

Telling the time printables

• Free clock printable from Minieco
• Clock templates and foldables from The Owl Teach (free – time to 5 mins)
• Matching times printables from Mrs W OR It’s about Time from The Crazy Schoolteacher

Make your own craft

• Pegs and pipe cleaner from Teach-a-Roo

Analog and digital time

• File folder game from Mr Printables (free)
• Telling time printables from Love to Learn
• Clock and schedule task cards from Playdough to Plato

Games for telling the time

• Roll and Read No Prep time game from This Reading Mama
• Telling time games for K-2 from The Measured Mom
• Four-in-a-row from You’ve Got This Math (free… you’ll need to scroll way down to the bottom)
• Apple-themed time puzzles from Life Over C’s
• Plastic egg time match from The Stem Laboratory
• Time to the hour puzzles from The Kindergarten Connection
• Telling time puzzles from 123Homeschool4Me
• Time is Up from Bainbridge Class (click on the photo to access the free printable)
• Insect time puzzles from 123Homeschool4Me

Telling time to the hour

• Build a snowman clock from The Stem Laboratory (free)
• Sensory bin times from Life Over C’s
• Ulla Unicorn’s Very Busy Day from Liz’s Early Learning Spot

Telling time to the half hour or less

• Time task cards with QR codes from Suzy Palmer (free)
• Telling time with The Grouchy Ladybug from Math Geek Mama (free… but need to leave email address)
• Write the room from School is a Happy Place

Broader aspects of time

• Simple clock schedule pictures from Fab ‘n’ Free
• 2017-2018 monthly calendar from Liz’s Early Learning Spot (free updates every 6 months – an editable version is available HERE )
• New Year’s time capsule printables from A Dab of Glue Will Do
• The Best Books to Teach Time Concepts from Math Geek Mama
• Books About Telling Time from Inner Child Fun

YouTube videos

• Hip Hop Around the Clock (Jack Hartmann): Time to the hour
• Telling Time Chant for Kids : Time to the hour
• Hickory Dickory Dock (Muffin Songs): Time to the hour
• Telling Time on the Hour and Half Hour (Fairy Godfather Show)

I hope you enjoy these telling the time activities!

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The Age-by-Age Guide to Teaching Kids Time Management

Use these tips to help your child discover how to plan and prioritize her time..

Many kids are overwhelmed by the prospect of fitting everything they have and want to do into the few short hours after school. Between homework, activities, and just time to play, there’s a lot to do. But even though most kids don’t have the cognitive skills to organize their schedules independently until middle school, you can start teaching them how to plan and prioritize their time now. “When we teach children strategies for time management from an early age, they internalize them, which sets them up for lifelong success,” says Lynn Meltzer, Ph.D., president of the Research Institute for Learning and Development , a nonprofit research and educational organization.

Wondering how the heck to begin? No worries. Teachers shared their tips on the essential concepts and lessons to teach, age by age, so you can make this school year’s schedule more manageable, successful, and a whole lot more fun for everyone! 

Time Management Tips for Preschoolers

For 3- and 4-year-olds, time is essentially divided into now, and not now. But that’s enough to help them figure out how to predict and plan what comes next. To reinforce that knowledge:

• Talk about the changing seasons. All those leaf prints (and later in the year, snowflakes) on display in almost every preschool classroom aren’t coincidental, says Stephanie Lampert, a pre-K teacher from Atlanta. The seasons are a primary vehicle for introducing the cyclical nature of time. “It’s an extremely abstract concept,” she says, “and preschoolers are extremely concrete thinkers. By observing a tree over the seasons, for example, kids can see the progression: The green leaves of summer turn red, then brown, and eventually fall off the tree before coming back to life again in the spring. This is a tangible representation of the passage of time that little ones can understand.” How does that help with time management? By observing the patterns in nature and in their daily lives, little kids intuitively grasp the concept of time — and how to create order. Reinforce those lessons by having your child sort family photos by seasons, for instance. Or point out patterns in nature when you go for a walk.
• Create a (picture) schedule. “As adults, we use apps and calendars to remind us what we should be doing and when. In the preschool world, we use pictures — like an apple for snacktime and a book for storytime,” says Ellen Dietrick, a Needham, MA, preschool director whose classrooms are dotted with visual cues to keep her young charges on track. So while these 3- and 4-year-olds can’t tell you the exact hour they have snacks, they know it comes after circle time and before the bathroom break. “It gives them a comforting sense of order and predictability,” Dietrick says. Since little kids love routines and repetition so much, create charts of your child’s morning and bedtime rituals. Then have your child check off the steps as he does them — an important lesson in breaking up a bigger chore into smaller, more manageable ones. Try these nine ways to make choretime fun , too. 
• Practice waiting. “Time management, at its most basic level, is the ability to delay gratification,” a skill linked to better study habits and grades, among other things, says Dietrick. To strengthen time management, Dietrick devises situations that require her students to wait for something they want. “If they clamor for pajama day, for example, we schedule it for a week away, rather than the following day,” she explains. “We mark the days off on the calendar and build up the excitement as the event gets closer. This gives them a sense of what it feels like to postpone something — and a positive experience to associate with it.” Try something similar with outings and birthdays: Begin talking up that trip to the zoo a few days beforehand, for instance, or tell your child to keep a running birthday wish list. Even planting a bulb, watering it, and watching it slowly bloom teaches the art of patience.

Time Management Tips for Children in Grades K to 2

As kids move through these early grades, they’re learning to read calendars and clocks. Those are the basics they need to stick to a schedule. To reinforce the skill:

• Find a place for everything. “A kid can’t finish his morning work if he can’t find his pencil. So organization has to come before time management,” notes Staci Carper, a first-grade teacher from Marietta, GA. To motivate her students, Carper created Deskalina, a cousin of the tooth fairy, who looks for clean and orderly desks and leaves a note, a prize, or a piece of candy when she finds one. When Deskalina starts flitting about, the desks in Carper’s classroom suddenly become tidy. Carper also sets up clear routines, like a “Keep Here” folder for unfinished schoolwork and a “Take Home” one for homework. To encourage your child to keep her homework supplies (or room) organized, invent your own mythical being to bestow treats and notes. An easy-to-spot weekly checklist (“Homework in backpack? Reading log signed?”) will also go a long way in keeping your kid on top of things.
• Use a visual timer. To help her first graders comprehend how much time is left to complete a task, Carper displays a pie-like visual timer on her Smartboard. When she sets it for 15 minutes, for example, one-quarter of the “pie” turns green. As the seconds tick away, the slice becomes smaller, and when there are only five minutes left, the slice turns red. Seeing time literally slipping away can help kids pace themselves, she explains. You don’t have to be a teacher to score a visual timer — apps like Children’s Countdown (for younger kids) and Time Timer  fit the bill just as well. So do old-school egg and sand timers. Use any during homework sessions. If you have a second grader, for instance, set the timer for 20 or 25 minutes. Give your child a star each night he finishes before the buzzer, and reward a week’s worth of stars with a special treat over the weekend (like a one-on-one walk to the park with you). The goal is to help kids tackle their assignments more effectively and efficiently, while making them more aware of the ticking clock, Carper says.
• Be clear about consequences. “Grade-schoolers can and should be held accountable for their own assignments and they need to feel the consequences when they drop the ball,” says Joan Greenfield, a second-grade teacher from West Hartford, CT. Sometimes those results happen naturally (i.e., if she doesn’t study her spelling words, she probably won’t do well on the test); other times an adult has to set the ramifications. Every Friday, for example, Greenfield has something called Choice Time, when students get to choose what they want to play with, from board games to Legos to computers. “My students live for Choice Time. But our class rule is that they only get to participate if they’ve completed all the assignments in their classwork folders.” The valuable lesson kids get? “Good things happen when I work hard and manage my time and missing them is what happens when I don’t,” Greenfield explains. Your child has a better shot at absorbing this lesson if you resist the urge to email an excuse to the teacher every time she fails to turn in her homework, says Greenfield. Instead, give your kid the onus of explaining to the teacher what went wrong, and how she plans to avoid the problem next time. Discover more do's and don't for helping your child with homework . 

Time Management for Children in Grades 3 to 5

Homework and extracurriculars increase at this age so it’s even more important that kids learn how to set goals, prioritize, organize, and think flexibly, says Dr. Meltzer. Your goal: To get your child to manage his time more purposefully, without a lot of nagging and hovering. How to accomplish this:

• Work on estimating time. “In order to make a realistic schedule, you need a good sense of how long things take,” says Marcia Grosswald, an upper-elementary resource teacher in Summit, NJ. To teach this vital skill, Grosswald has her students spend a few minutes at the end of the day planning their after-school hours. “I give them a chart that breaks the afternoon and evening hours into 15-minute intervals,” she explains. “Each time slot is followed by three columns: what kids plans to do, what they actually did, and reflection.” The reflection piece is essential, Grosswald says, because constantly reassessing how things are going helps a kid adapt his schedule accordingly: Last time I had a soccer game at 5 p.m., I had tough time concentrating on my homework afterward. This time, I’m going to do my hardest assignments before practice.  If your child’s teacher doesn’t do this, do it yourself at home. Make a chart, have your child fill out the first column himself, and then fill out the last two items together, discussing what went according to plan — and what your child can do about the things that went awry.
• Plan for long-term assignments. Deciding when to do tonight’s math assignment is one thing. Figuring out how and when to tackle the book report diorama that’s due three weeks from Tuesday is quite another.  “The key with long-range projects is to break them down into smaller steps — reading the book, for instance, or shopping for materials — and then break those tasks down into even smaller nightly assignments, like reading chapters one to three,” says Amy Broocke, who coordinates a tutoring program at her school in Richmond, VA. She also suggests your child use sticky notes when she’s adding tasks to the calendar; that way, the note can easily be moved to another day if the assignment takes longer than expected. Your child can also plan the steps necessary to complete a project by working backward from the due date, suggests Grosswald. Talk through the process together so the assignment feels less overwhelming: You probably need a day to shop for materials and three days to do the diorama. That leaves you with 10 days to finish the book. It’s 150 pages long so you need to read 15 pages a day. Here's how to create a stress-free study space . 
• Set priorities. “It’s essential kids learn to differentiate between ‘have tos’ and ‘want tos’ and learn to prioritize and self-monitor,” says Meltzer. To help her class do that, Grosswald uses a rock, pebble, and water analogy. The rocks and pebbles represent the students’ duties, she explains, with the rocks signifying their most essential tasks (like school, homework, and sleep) and the pebbles representing their extracurricular commitments. The water stands in for want-to-dos, like video games and hanging out with friends. “I use a jar to represent a day,” she says. “The rocks go in first because they are things you have to do whether you like it or not. Next come the pebbles. But there’s still some room in the jar, so we pour water until our jar — and the day is full.” If you do the rock jar at home, as I did, you’ll have a chance to chat with your kid about her goals, priorities and passions. Don’t be afraid to make changes if you notice the balance is a bit out of whack. After our conversation, we decided Emma would kick off the school year with fewer extracurricular pebbles crammed between the rocks — and a lot more of that refreshing water known as chill time.

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An Age-By-Age Guide to Helping Kids Manage Homework

Do you ever wonder whether homework is gauging the child’s ability to complete assignments or the parent’s? On one end of the spectrum, a parent might never mention homework and assume it gets done independently; on the other end are the parents who micromanage to be sure every worksheet is absolutely perfect.

Being too laissez faire about homework might deny a child the support they need to develop executive functioning skills, but being too involved could stifle their independence. So how much parent participation in homework is actually appropriate throughout a child’s education?

Basic homework tips

According to Scholastic , you should follow these rules of thumb to support your child during homework (without going overboard):

Stay nearby and available for questions without getting right in the middle of homework.

Avoid the urge to correct mistakes unless your child asks for help.

Instead of nagging, set up a homework routine with a dedicated time and place.

Teach time management for a larger project by helping them break it into chunks.

Child psychologist Dr. Emily W. King recently wrote about rethinking homework in her newsletter. King explains at what ages kids are typically able to do homework independently, but she writes that each child’s ability to concentrate at the end of the day and use executive functioning skills for completing tasks is very individual. I talked to her for more information on how much parental involvement in homework completion is needed, according to a child’s age and grade level.

Kindergarten to second grade

Whether children even need homework this early is a hot debate. Little ones are still developing fine motor skills and their ability to sit still and pay attention at this age.

“If a child is given homework before their brain and body are able to sit and focus independently, then we are relying on the parent or other caregivers to sit with the child to help them focus,” King said. “ Think about when the child is able to sit and focus on non-academic tasks like dinner, art, or music lessons. This will help you tease out executive functioning skills from academic understanding.”

Elementary-age children need time for unstructured play and structured play like music, arts, and sports. They need outside time, free time, and quiet time, King said. For children who are not ready for independent work, nightly reading with another family member is enough “homework,” she said.

Third to fifth grades

Many children will be able to do homework independently in grades 3-5. Even then, their ability to focus and follow through may vary from day to day.

“Most children are ready for practicing independent work between third and fifth grade, but maybe not yet in the after-school hours when they are tired and want to rest or play. We need to begin exposing children to organization and structure independently in late elementary school to prepare them for more independence in middle school,” King said.

Neurodivergent kids may need more parental support for several years before they work independently.

“Neurodivergent children, many of whom have executive functioning weaknesses, are not ready to work independently in elementary school. Children without executive functioning weaknesses (e.g., the ability to remain seated and attend to a task independently) are able to do this somewhere between third and fifth grade, but it’s very possible they can work independently at school but be too tired to do it later in the afternoon,” King said. “We need to follow the child’s skills and give them practice to work independently when they seem ready. Of course, if a child wants to do extra work after school due to an interest, go for it.”

For students who are not ready to work independently in middle school, it is better to reduce the amount of homework they are expected to complete so they can practice independence and feel successful.

Middle school

In sixth grade and later, kids are really developing executive functioning skills like planning, organizing, paying attention, initiating, shifting focus, and execution. They will still need your encouragement to keep track of assignments, plan their time, and stick to a homework routine.

“Middle school students need lots of organization support and putting systems in place to help them keep track of assignments, due dates, and materials,” King said.

High school

By this point, congratulations: You can probably be pretty hands-off with homework. Remain open and available if your teen needs help negotiating a problem, but executing plans should be up to them now.

“In high school, parents are working to put themselves out of a job and begin stepping back as children take the lead on homework. Parents of high schoolers are ‘homework consultants,’” King said. “We are there to help solve problems, talk through what to say in an email to a teacher, but we are not writing the emails or talking to the teachers for our kids.”

What if homework is not working for them (or you)

There are a number of reasons a child might not be managing homework at the same level as their peers, including academic anxiety and learning disabilities.

If your child is showing emotional distress at homework time, it might be a sign that they have run out of gas from the structure, socialization, and stimulation they have already been through at school that day. One way to support kids is to teach them how to have a healthy balance of work and play time.

“When we ask students to keep working after school when their tank is on empty, we likely damage their love of learning and fill them with dread for tomorrow,” King wrote in her newsletter.

King said in her experience as a child psychologist, the amount of homework support a child needs is determined by their individual abilities and skills more than their age or grade level.

“All of these steps vary for a neurodivergent child and we are not following these guidelines by age or grade but rather by their level of skills development to become more independent,” she said. “In order to independently complete homework, a child must be able to have attended to the directions in class, brought the materials home, remember to get the materials out at home, remember to begin the task, understand the task, remain seated and attention long enough to complete the task, be able to complete the task, return the work to their backpack, and return the work to the teacher. If any of these skills are weak or the child is not able to do these independently, there will be a breakdown in the system of homework. You can see why young students and neurodivergent students would struggle with this process.”

If you and your child have trouble meeting homework expectations, talk to their teacher about what could be contributing to the problem and how to modify expectations for them.

“Get curious about your child’s skill level at that time of day,” King said. “Are they able to work independently at school but not at home? Are they not able to work independently any time of day? Are they struggling with this concept at school, too? When are they successful?”

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How to Make a Better Homework Schedule for Your Family

Verywell / Zackary Angeline

Why Homework Schedules Are Effective

• Developing a Schedule

Other Considerations

Do you frequently have homework struggles with your child or teen? Or, does your student procrastinate doing their work? Maybe they even fail to turn in assignments. If any of these scenarios resonate with you, a better homework schedule may help.

A regular homework schedule establishes predictable times when homework is to be completed. Once the homework schedule has been in place for a few weeks, you may even find your child will begin doing their homework without needing to be reminded—although you may still need to monitor their work progress.

If you're struggling with homework completion in your household, or if you're having daily battles about allotting the appropriate amount of time to homework, you're not alone. That's why educators recommend developing a homework schedule—with input from your kids.

Once you set a homework schedule, then there are no questions about when the work will be done. It also communicates clear expectations; having a homework schedule helps kids understand what is required of them. And following the schedule encourages them to develop a good work ethic.

Schedules also help prevent procrastination and instill good habits like completing work on time. Homework routines also improve study skills and encourage kids to plan ahead.

Other benefits include developing your child's work ethic and organizational abilities. By helping your child complete their work at regular intervals, you are modeling how to manage time and projects in the future. When you send them off to college , they will know how to pace their work so they can avoid all-nighters at the end of the semester.

How to Develop a Homework Schedule

To develop a homework schedule, start by talking with your kids. Get their input on how they would like to manage their time and incorporate their homework into their daily routine. A successful homework schedule allows kids to finish their work and also have some free time.

Give Kids an Option

If you ask kids when they want to do their homework, their first answer might be "Never" or "Later." But if you dig a little deeper, your child may tell you what matters to them as they plan their schedule. This information will help you avoid scheduling homework during their favorite television program or when they usually get online to play games with friends.

When you include your child in the decision-making process, you also will get more buy-in from them because they know that their concerns were heard. You don't have to give them their way, but at least considering what they have to say will let them feel included. After all, this homework schedule is about them completing their homework.

Allow for Free Time

Some kids can step through the front door and buckle down on their homework right away. When this happens, they reap the reward of getting their work done early and having the rest of the evening to do what they want. But most kids need to eat and decompress a bit before tackling their assignments.

As you develop your homework schedule, keep in mind your child has already spent at least six hours in class. And this time doesn't include getting to and from school or participation in extracurricular programs . Allow kids some free time before beginning their homework if that's what they need to unwind.

Establish a Timeline

Generally, you can expect about 10 minutes of homework per grade level of school. This means that a third-grade student will need about 30 minutes to complete homework. However, the amount of time needed can vary dramatically between students, teachers, and schools.

Find out how much time your child's teacher expects homework to take each evening. If your child takes a lot of time to complete their work or struggles with homework , talk with the teacher. Your child may need extra instruction on a task or tutoring assistance—or fewer homework assignments.

Pick a Homework Spot

Designate a comfortable and efficient spot for your kids to do their homework. This workspace should be well-lit, stocked with supplies , and quiet. The workspace should allow you to provide some supervision. 

If you have multiple kids trying to complete their homework at one time, you may want to find a separate location for each child. Sometimes kids can complete their homework together at the kitchen table, but other times having siblings around can be distracting. Do what works best for your family.

Put It All Together

Now that you know what your child's needs and concerns are for finding a time to do homework, you need to come up with the actual plan. Creating a homework routine is really just one piece of creating a daily school year routine .

For the homework time itself, get it down on paper so you can see exactly what they will be doing and when they will be doing it. Do this for each day of the week if you have different activities on different weekdays. Students who are assigned larger projects will need to review their homework plans regularly to make adjustments as needed.

Expect your child to work consistently throughout the assigned time. Avoid having multiple homework sessions, such as one before dinner and a second one after dinner. Starting and stopping may mean children may spend more time getting into what they are doing than working continuously.

Be Consistent

Once you have decided on a time to do homework, stick to the plan! It usually takes about three weeks for most children to really get into the habit of their new schedule.

If your child or teen has difficulty maintaining concentration for the length of time that their homework should take, then you may want to carefully consider breaking up the work to take advantage of the time when your child can focus.

This added step is especially important for children and teens with depression or attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). They may benefit from multiple smaller work sessions and more frequent breaks.

Even though the idea behind creating a homework schedule is to get your child to work consistently and independently, you may need to look over their work when they are done. This is especially important for younger children.

Make sure they understand their assignments and that they completed a reasonable amount of work during the homework session. If you find your child is having trouble actually working during their homework time, troubleshoot to find out what might be the issue. Sometimes kids need extra help and other times they simply need more motivation to get their work done.

If you find that your child continues to struggle with homework even with a schedule in place, you might need to dig a little deeper. Consider discussing your child's issues with their teacher or pediatrician.

Sometimes kids are reluctant to complete their homework because of undiagnosed learning disabilities. It could be that your child struggles with reading comprehension or has a processing disorder. Or it could be that your child is struggling with a mental health issue like anxiety .

A Word From Verywell

Establishing a homework schedule allows children to build some important life skills that will help them as they navigate high school, college, and eventually the workforce. Practice is important when kids are learning new skills. So, having a nightly homework routine enhances your child's learning. Just be sure you aren't requiring homework time at the expense of being a kid. Having time to play is just as important to a child's development as learning new material.

National Institute of Mental Health. Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder .

By Lisa Linnell-Olsen Lisa Linnell-Olsen has worked as a support staff educator, and is well-versed in issues of education policy and parenting issues.

Telling Time to the Hour: A Kindergarten Lesson Plan

• Patricia Gable
• Categories : Lesson plans for pre k and k
• Tags : Teaching grades pre k to 5

How long do we have before recess? When is lunch? What day do we have art? So many things revolve around time. It is a difficult concept to grasp sometimes. In this two-day lesson plan you will give the students a concept of seconds and minutes before focusing on an hour. Then students will practice telling time to the hour on both an analog clock and a digital clock.

Objectives:

• Students will tell time to the hour using digital and analog clocks.

Materials and Preparation

• Book: <em>It’s About Time!</em> <em>Math Start: Level One</em> by Stuart Murphy
• Book: The Clock Struck One: A Time-Telling Tale by Trudy Harris
• Large clock (analog) with movable hands
• Digital clock
• Student copies of “Telling Time Homework” printable worksheet
• Student copies of <strong>“Clocks by the Hour”</strong> printable worksheet
• 12 sheets of construction paper with the numbers written from 1 through 12 (one number on each sheet).
• Two thin strips of paper - one a little longer than the other- to resemble clock hands

Vocabulary:

Analog: a clock or watch showing the time by means of hands

Digital: showing time by displayed digits or numerals

O’clock: used to specify the hour when telling time

Second: a small increment of time

Minute: sixty seconds

Hour: sixty minutes

Procedure for Day One:

Gather your students in front of you and show them the analog clock and ask them why it is used. Show them that the hands move around in a “clockwise” direction all the time. The longer hand is the minute hand and the shorter hand designates the hour. Notice that as the minute hand moves the hour hand also moves but at a slower rate. On a clock, time is divided into seconds, minutes and hours. To give the students a sense of what each segment of time is, guide your students through these activities:

• Clap your hands one time. That is one second.
• Put students in pairs. Use the timer. One student counts how many times their partner can clap in ten seconds. Then reverse the roles and do it again.
• Jog in place for one minute. Is a minute longer or shorter than a second? The minute hand goes around one time each minute.
• Now show your students that you are setting a timer for one hour. That means that the minute hand will go around sixty times. Ask them to predict what they will be doing when the timer goes off. Write down some predictions.

Next show the students that when the hour hand is pointing to a number, let’s say it is a four, and the minute hand is on the twelve then it is 4 o’clock. Show a few examples and call on students to tell the time. Then use the digital clock and explain the hour is to the left of the two dots, which is called a colon. So if it shows 4:00 it is four o’clock.

Finally read The Clock Stuck One: A Time-Telling Tale . This is a new version on the old poem “Hickory Dickory Dock”. This is a book you will want to read more than once. Notice all of the times on the clocks and the riotous activity throughout the house.

<strong>“Telling Time Homework”</strong> which requires parental help to count the clocks in the house (remember the stove, microwave and television) and to mark down some times such as the child’s dinnertime and bedtime.

Procedure for Day Two:

Collect the homework to use for the follow-up activity. Then read It’s About Time! The book documents the day of a young boy with clocks on each page showing the hour he is doing an activity.

Then place the twelve sheets of paper in order in a circle on the floor to resemble a clock. Include the two strips of paper used for clock hands. Use the homework and call on students to show a particular time on the clock that was indicated on their papers. For example, “Your paper said that you go to bed at 8:00. Please show us what 8:00 looks like on the clock.” You can extend the activity by asking how many hours the child slept if they got up at 7:00 am. How can we use the clock to figure this out?

Assessment:

Use the printable worksheet <strong>“Clocks by the Hour”.</strong>

Murphy, Stuart. It’s About Time: Math Start Level One. Harper Collins, 2005.

Harris, Trudy. The Clock Struck One: A Time-Telling Tale. Millbrook Press, 2009.

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Telling Time Activities For Preschool Students: Crafts, Snack Ideas, Practice Games, And Printables

October 14, 2023 //  by  Lori Goldberg

Teaching time is an important and practical life skill that everyone should learn from an early age.  There are many ways to practice telling time.  The best activities are centered around the daily routine.  Here are 30 fun and engaging activities for teaching preschoolers all about time.  Kids learn about time through interactive fun activities.

1. Telling Time for Preschoolers

This fun paper plate craft starts with gluing a printable clock and paste it to the plate.  Have an adult attach a long hand and shorthand with a brad fastener.   Allow kids to color their clocks as they choose.  This simple activity begins a wonderful milestone for children.

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2.  Paper Plate Clock

Cut out 12 craft foam circles, label 1-12, and glue in order on a paper plate to represent a clock face.  Cut short and long hands from construction paper and attach them to the center of the paper plate.

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3.  Clock Snack Idea

Using a circular cookie cutter, cut a circle out of a slice of bread.  Spread peanut butter on one side of the bread and add 12 M&M's to represent the hours of a clock.  Give children two small pieces of celery and have them placed at a given time.

4.  Visual Timetable

The concept of time goes hand in hand with a child's daily schedule.  Create a timeline of the time of day activities occur.   Print out activities done at specific times of the day and attach them to the wall for all students to see.  This is a great way to teach the passage of time and to see the beginning of how to use time management in their day.

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5. What Does the Clock Say?

Print out chart parts to play the game.  Students identify time on analog and digital clocks.

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6.  Sidewalk Chalk Clock

Draw a giant clock using sidewalk chalk in a large area outside.  Have students two at a time work together to show whatever time is called out by moving their bodies around the clock.  This is a great way to start with on the hour, half-hour, or quarter-hour.

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7.  Make the Time

Using Make the Time printable and clock times that have been laminated or placed in a plastic pouch, have students draw the short and long hands using dry erase markers.

8.  Time Card Sort

Create or print pictures of a variety of activities and have students sort the pictures into categories such as night, day, evening, morning, afternoon, noon, midnight depending either on when the activity takes place.  This is a great way to connect time to everyday life.

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9.  Build a Clock

To teach time skills to children such as parts of a clock here is a fun and simple activity.  Print a  build a clock mat.  Cut out the numbers for the clock hours and two rectangles for the hour and minute hand.

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10.  Time BINGO

This perfect school resource provides measurement of time and other math concepts.  Time Bingo is a fun time matching game for teaching about telling time.  Print or create bingo cards with time clocks on them.  Start with time to the hour for preschoolers and progress to harder times such as half past or quarter to when students are ready.

11.  Time Matching Cards 

This fun matching game gives children a great visual aid to practice telling time.  Use analog clock puzzle pieces to match digital time puzzle pieces.  These printable puzzle pieces make this quick classroom activity.

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12.  Clock Matching Game

These educational math games teach about time activities.  This matching game is a great way to engage students in learning about time.  Students match the digital time clock cards to the analog time clock cards to make correct time matches.

13.  Clock Clothespins

Using 12 clothespins, with the hours on each clothespin.  Have students attach clothespins to a paper plate ensuring the correct hour placements.  This will quickly become a favorite play time choice.

Learn more: Butterbees and Bumbleflees

14.  Easter Egg Telling Time Activity

You will need 24 plastic Easter eggs.  Number each egg 1-24.  Print out the analog clocks and place one clock inside each egg.  Hide the eggs around the classroom and give each student a blank egg sheet.  Students will go on an egg hunt and write the correct time on their blank egg sheet.  This fun and engaging game about time will have students mastering time quickly.

15.  Printable Watch Time!

Print and have students cut out paper watches.  Students can share watches with each other and wear different watches each day.  Paper watches provide students with great representations of time.

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16. Timeline of the Day Activity

Make a list of daily routine indicating the time that the activity takes place, such as morning snack time, quiet time, etc.  Have students make a clock showing the time of the activity.  Students can also draw a picture to go with the activity in the daily routine.  This activity is a good way to build a classroom community.

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17.  Guess What Time It Is?

This time telling game can be use with the older or new versions of the board game Guess Who?  Print the templates to use with the game board, providing students with target time telling abilities.  This activity includes telling time worksheets.

18.  Rock Around the Clock

Provide recording sheets for each child or use a dry erase board.  Tell the students that you are going to play a song through out the day and each time they hear the song, they will write down the time that they song started.  This is a great way to learn about the passing of time.  This is a great time to get in some dance moves and allow students to move.

19.  Springtime Flowers

Primary teachers are always looking for great bulletin boards, this is a wonderful interactive board.  There are several ways to use this bulletin board, however keeping it simple for young children is best.  Create flowers and flower pots attach a clock face on each flower showing different times.  Using either premade times or having students write the time on the clock face and attach to the flowerpot.

20. Clocks by the Cup

Making connections between the hour numbers to the minutes that each number represents is very important.  Create this clock by using a large piece of construction paper, 12 small plastic cups and 12 circles cut from construction paper.

21.  Make a Paper Clock

Create this paper clock from either two large circles or construction paper or two paper plate attached together using a brad fastener to the hour and minute hand.

Learn more: We Are Teachers

22.   Color the Spaces to Learn the Hours

Teaching kids about time starts with teaching children about the time in between each number on a clock.  Print out clocks and have child use highlighters to determine the amount of space on a clock face that belongs to a number.

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23. Make a Hook to Determine the Correct Hour

Teaching correct time when the hour hand is between two numbers, can be difficult.  Cut a pipe cleaner in half and curve one end to look like a backwards J.  Tape the pipe cleaner to the hour hand, as the hour hand moves, students will be able to determine the hours that the minute hand has already past.

24.  Make a Clock with Linking Math Cubes

This activity helps children learn the measurements of time between each of the numbers.   Create a large clock on a piece of cardboard adding the numbers for the hours and the minutes each number represents in minutes.  Gather your math cubes and link 5 together to represent how the minute hand moves between each number.

Learn more: We are Teachers

25. Hula Hoop Clock

Using sidewalk chalk time and a hula hoop on concrete, create a clock face on the ground.  Find two sticks, one shorter than the other to represent the hour and minutes hands.  Call out times and have the children show the time on the hula hoop clock.

26. Shake Up a Carton of Clocks

Glue clock faces inside an egg carton.  Place an object such as a marble in the carton and shake up the carton.  Open the carton and fill in the graph paper with the corresponding time.  This educational math game give children the opportunity to graph as well.

27.  Write the Room with I Spy Time

This is a fun and engage time math lesson.  Print out several paper analog clocks, number each clock and tape around the room.  Create a recording sheet  and have students travel around the classroom and record the correct time.

Learn more: I Spy Time

28.  Race to Beat the Rush Hour Clock

Gather several Judy clocks and a die for each clock.  Give students directions for rolling 1-6 on the die.  Starting at a set time like 12:00, have students roll the die until they reach the goal time.

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29.  Clock Hats

Cut out construction paper in the shape of a hat and staple or tape the ends together to make a hat.  Print out and glue on a clock face on the center on the hat.  Attach hour and minute hands to the center of the clock face using a brad fastener.  Have students show a specific time on their clock hat.  This is a fun way to tell time to the hour in kindergarten.

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30. Learn to Tell Time

An engaging online game for teaching time.  In this game, children can set the time on the clock either on a digital or analog clock.

Learn more: ABCYa

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The Unique Burial of a Child of Early Scythian Time at the Cemetery of Saryg-Bulun (Tuva)

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In 1988, the Tuvan Archaeological Expedition (led by M. E. Kilunovskaya and V. A. Semenov) discovered a unique burial of the early Iron Age at Saryg-Bulun in Central Tuva. There are two burial mounds of the Aldy-Bel culture dated by 7th century BC. Within the barrows, which adjoined one another, forming a figure-of-eight, there were discovered 7 burials, from which a representative collection of artifacts was recovered. Burial 5 was the most unique, it was found in a coffin made of a larch trunk, with a tightly closed lid. Due to the preservative properties of larch and lack of air access, the coffin contained a well-preserved mummy of a child with an accompanying set of grave goods. The interred individual retained the skin on his face and had a leather headdress painted with red pigment and a coat, sewn from jerboa fur. The coat was belted with a leather belt with bronze ornaments and buckles. Besides that, a leather quiver with arrows with the shafts decorated with painted ornaments, fully preserved battle pick and a bow were buried in the coffin. Unexpectedly, the full-genomic analysis, showed that the individual was female. This fact opens a new aspect in the study of the social history of the Scythian society and perhaps brings us back to the myth of the Amazons, discussed by Herodotus. Of course, this discovery is unique in its preservation for the Scythian culture of Tuva and requires careful study and conservation.

Keywords: Tuva, Early Iron Age, early Scythian period, Aldy-Bel culture, barrow, burial in the coffin, mummy, full genome sequencing, aDNA

Information about authors: Marina Kilunovskaya (Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation). Candidate of Historical Sciences. Institute for the History of Material Culture of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Dvortsovaya Emb., 18, Saint Petersburg, 191186, Russian Federation E-mail: [email protected] Vladimir Semenov (Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation). Candidate of Historical Sciences. Institute for the History of Material Culture of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Dvortsovaya Emb., 18, Saint Petersburg, 191186, Russian Federation E-mail: [email protected] Varvara Busova  (Moscow, Russian Federation).  (Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation). Institute for the History of Material Culture of the Russian Academy of Sciences.  Dvortsovaya Emb., 18, Saint Petersburg, 191186, Russian Federation E-mail:  [email protected] Kharis Mustafin  (Moscow, Russian Federation). Candidate of Technical Sciences. Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology.  Institutsky Lane, 9, Dolgoprudny, 141701, Moscow Oblast, Russian Federation E-mail:  [email protected] Irina Alborova  (Moscow, Russian Federation). Candidate of Biological Sciences. Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology.  Institutsky Lane, 9, Dolgoprudny, 141701, Moscow Oblast, Russian Federation E-mail:  [email protected] Alina Matzvai  (Moscow, Russian Federation). Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology.  Institutsky Lane, 9, Dolgoprudny, 141701, Moscow Oblast, Russian Federation E-mail:  [email protected]

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Savvino-storozhevsky monastery and museum.

Zvenigorod's most famous sight is the Savvino-Storozhevsky Monastery, which was founded in 1398 by the monk Savva from the Troitse-Sergieva Lavra, at the invitation and with the support of Prince Yury Dmitrievich of Zvenigorod. Savva was later canonised as St Sabbas (Savva) of Storozhev. The monastery late flourished under the reign of Tsar Alexis, who chose the monastery as his family church and often went on pilgrimage there and made lots of donations to it. Most of the monastery’s buildings date from this time. The monastery is heavily fortified with thick walls and six towers, the most impressive of which is the Krasny Tower which also serves as the eastern entrance. The monastery was closed in 1918 and only reopened in 1995. In 1998 Patriarch Alexius II took part in a service to return the relics of St Sabbas to the monastery. Today the monastery has the status of a stauropegic monastery, which is second in status to a lavra. In addition to being a working monastery, it also holds the Zvenigorod Historical, Architectural and Art Museum.

Belfry and Neighbouring Churches

Located near the main entrance is the monastery's belfry which is perhaps the calling card of the monastery due to its uniqueness. It was built in the 1650s and the St Sergius of Radonezh’s Church was opened on the middle tier in the mid-17th century, although it was originally dedicated to the Trinity. The belfry's 35-tonne Great Bladgovestny Bell fell in 1941 and was only restored and returned in 2003. Attached to the belfry is a large refectory and the Transfiguration Church, both of which were built on the orders of Tsar Alexis in the 1650s.  

To the left of the belfry is another, smaller, refectory which is attached to the Trinity Gate-Church, which was also constructed in the 1650s on the orders of Tsar Alexis who made it his own family church. The church is elaborately decorated with colourful trims and underneath the archway is a beautiful 19th century fresco.

Nativity of Virgin Mary Cathedral

The Nativity of Virgin Mary Cathedral is the oldest building in the monastery and among the oldest buildings in the Moscow Region. It was built between 1404 and 1405 during the lifetime of St Sabbas and using the funds of Prince Yury of Zvenigorod. The white-stone cathedral is a standard four-pillar design with a single golden dome. After the death of St Sabbas he was interred in the cathedral and a new altar dedicated to him was added.

Under the reign of Tsar Alexis the cathedral was decorated with frescoes by Stepan Ryazanets, some of which remain today. Tsar Alexis also presented the cathedral with a five-tier iconostasis, the top row of icons have been preserved.

Tsaritsa's Chambers

The Nativity of Virgin Mary Cathedral is located between the Tsaritsa's Chambers of the left and the Palace of Tsar Alexis on the right. The Tsaritsa's Chambers were built in the mid-17th century for the wife of Tsar Alexey - Tsaritsa Maria Ilinichna Miloskavskaya. The design of the building is influenced by the ancient Russian architectural style. Is prettier than the Tsar's chambers opposite, being red in colour with elaborately decorated window frames and entrance.

At present the Tsaritsa's Chambers houses the Zvenigorod Historical, Architectural and Art Museum. Among its displays is an accurate recreation of the interior of a noble lady's chambers including furniture, decorations and a decorated tiled oven, and an exhibition on the history of Zvenigorod and the monastery.

Palace of Tsar Alexis

The Palace of Tsar Alexis was built in the 1650s and is now one of the best surviving examples of non-religious architecture of that era. It was built especially for Tsar Alexis who often visited the monastery on religious pilgrimages. Its most striking feature is its pretty row of nine chimney spouts which resemble towers.

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