A calendar year is 365 days divided
into 12 months
Year
A decade is 10 years
Decade
A century is a 100 years
Century
Hour
An hour is 60 minutes. The hour
hand on the clock is the short hand.
The minutes are marked off by the
minute hand.
Half hour is a span of 30 minutes
Half hour
The hour hand pointing to the 6 –
30 minutes past the hour
Half Past
A quarter of an hour is 15 minutes
Quarter hour
Quarter after
The hour hand pointing to the 3 – 15
minutes after the hour
Quarter til
The hour hand pointing to the 9 – 15
minutes to the next hour
There are 365 days in a year. A day
lasts 24 hours.
Day
This is how you label something on
the hour (minute hand on the 12)
O’Clock
Analog
A clock with an hour hand, minute
hand and second hand and numbers
around the outside
A clock that shows the time using
digital numbers
Digital
A calendar shows the months, days
weeks of the year
Calendar
Leap year
A leap year occurs once every 4 years
and adds a day to the month of
February making it have 29 days
instead of 28