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Roy Joyner: "Tick-Tock" ~ Based on Rap Instrumental 123 

This is an activity I use for teaching time. I think it does a fair job of explaining how to tell time on an analog clock. The intervention was originally used as feedback for a music therapy intern who was working on some time-telling interventions. 

I borrowed the intern's chorus line, then designed the verses around it to show my groups how to read a clock. After that, I just had to find the right music. 

Materials: 

A Judy Clock, ipod and speakers, and Boardmaker pictures with a "step-­by-­step" AAC device for students who are non-­verbal

Procedure:

1) Start with the chorus. You may rap this several times as the students become engaged in the activity. Use your clock as a prompt, spinning the hands as you rap.

2) Rap the first verse about time to the hour and then model using the clock. Fade to having the class call out the answer.

3) You may rap the chorus every two or three turns to keep things moving.

4) Repeat for the minute verse. The great thing is - it's open ended and allows you to work on time to the hour, or quarter, half, and five minute intervals.

Adaptations:

1) Many non-­verbal students can manipulate the clock or the step-­by-­step - then we can count up or back from the designated time.

I also use Boardmaker pics to denote certain times of the day such as music therapy, lunch, PE, and dismissal so that students can become accustomed to recognizing certain times that are consistent throughout the school day.

Notes:  

I hope that you can use this track as a guide for an activity on telling time. I used telling time to the hour and half hour as an example. I left some spaces in the track for you to work in time intervals that correspond to the objectives of groups or individuals with whom you work. This basic tracks lack the audience participation that we usually get when it is performed during a music therapy session. Please feel free to use, rearrange, and improve on this intervention. After all, that is what resources like this are for! 

Chorus: Tick, Tock, hands on a clock. This is a rhyme about telling time
Repeat
Verse 1: The little hand has a lot of power. When his friend’s on 12, he tells the hour.
Repeat
Chorus
Verse 2: You see the clock is a circle, and the hands spin in it. But only the big hand tells the minut
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