Hi there, my name is Patricia A. McLendon. I am the founder of Wittles Worth Innovative Education. As the result of a dream, I created many elementary level educational tools and I used those tools to homeschool my three children. The Wittles Worth Analog Clock, Time Teaching Tools are one set of my homeschooling tools I created to help my children understand the concepts of analog time. They were struggling with number associations, interconnected with measurements, money, arithmetic and the 24 hour day and night cycles, but the tools I created solved the problems.
This is how it all began! One night in a dream there appeared first an elderly woman who cried out saying, “I am widowed; but I am still worth something!” Then as her image begin to fade, I heard the tender voice of a tongue-tied child cry “I am wittle; but I am still worth something!” Thus, the title Wittles Worth was born along with some of my amazing educational ideas and inventions, that I was able to use when teaching my own children. I have shared these ideas with others who have found them to be greatly beneficial.
I have been teaching for over 20 years as a homeschooling parent and as a substitute teacher and noticed a decline in children being able to tell time. Not only will Analog clocks never be replaced, but learning this skill triggers a part of the brain to comprehend number rules in other areas of mathematics. I wanted to help them understand how to read an analog clock as well as what time meant in their everyday lifestyle. I developed these tools to help make teaching and learning analog time easy.
I used my connection with teachers along the way to make sure each tool would be exactly what was needed to teach in the classroom but could also help other moms like me who wanted to teach their kids about time in their home. I hope you will enjoy these tools, as much as I have enjoyed preparing them for you and your students.
Over the years of developing my Wittles Worth Educational Time Tools I have met with literally hundreds of educators, and to my amazement, I discovered that when it comes to the subject of teaching Analog time, there was a great need for the development of a creative, simplistic method of teaching this subject in a way for children to easily understand and apply. We believe that our analog time tools offer the perfect solution. They are fun and easy to use and the slide information moves at a thorough and easy pace. Educators and their students will love it!
I have scoured the elementary school education marketplace looking for equivalent teaching tools and have not found anything that matches our methods in its simplistic and measured approach to teaching this subject.
Lessons depicting The Little Hand and its responsibility to point out the 24 hour-spaces in a day
Slides 1 to 17are about The Little Hand’s AM morning hours
Slides from 18-32 are about The Little Hour Hand’s PM afternoon and evening hours
And, lesson showing a progressing 24-hours with AM and PM hours will help your students visualize what 24 hours look like in Analog Time
