All in One Hour

All in One Hour

By Susan Stevens Crummel

Marshall Cavendish, 2003

Grades: K, 1, 2

Summary: At six o'clock in the morning, a mouse wakes up a cat, who runs past a dog, who catches the eye of a dog catcher and starts a town-wide ruckus that slowly builds through the hour. As the pattern of the text builds (similar to "The House that Jack Built") the time slowly ticks by on analog clocks hidden in the illustrations.

Jump: Because the clock in the background displays the time that each event happens and there is a digital clock at the beginning of the text, the two parts could be separated and then students could match the illustration and text using both the time clues and the content clues. The way each clock looks (in digital and analog) can be used to help students understand how the minute hand and hour hand move through an hour. A similar matching activity can be done with a classroom narrative - students can match 10:05 bathroom break with an analog clock stating the same time. These pictures and clocks could also be used to practice sequencing.