TELLING TIME by Russ McKay

Posted on January 24, 2013
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“It’s time you learned to tell time!”
That’s what my Daddy said
So he told me all about the clock
And how the hands are read
The little one is the hours
And the big one are the minutes
We were really concentrating
We were really gettin’ in it!

“Can’t I just read clocks with numbers
It’s so much easier to do?”
“No you’ve got to learn the way I did
And you’ll know how when we’re through!”
You know it’s quite confusing
Learning time I really hate

When the big hand’s on the eight
The four is also twenty
And the five, twenty five too
The six is also thirty
Does this make sense to you?
It takes a lot of time to tell what time it is

But my Dad and I kept going
It was a goal of his
“I think I’ve got it Dad
You’ve really taught me great!”
But when I said it’s “seven fifty five”
Dad said…”It’s five of eight!”

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