3rd Grade AM and PM Time Worksheet: 5 Daily Events
The same clock time can happen twice a day. This 3rd grade am and pm time worksheet helps your child tell the two halves of the day apart, a.m. and p.m. A timeline at the top shows the 12-hour clock: the a.m. hours run from midnight to noon, and the p.m. hours run from noon to midnight. Then come five short stories from daily life. Joan eats breakfast at 7:00, Beth sets the table for dinner at 5:30 and Paul eats lunch around noon. Charity comes home from school at 4:05, and Mom leaves for work at 7:30. For each one, your child ticks a.m. or p.m., and the second page is an answer key that explains the first event.
Morning or afternoon: the clue is the event
Each story hides a clue about the part of the day. Breakfast and leaving for work happen in the morning, so 7:00 and 7:30 are a.m., while dinner and coming home from school happen later, so 5:30 and 4:05 are p.m.
Ask your child to say the clue word out loud and decide: morning or afternoon? Only then tick a box. This habit turns a guess into a reasoned answer.
The tricky one: 12:00 at noon
Paul eats lunch around noon, but many children hesitate here. On the timeline, the a.m. hours stop at noon and the p.m. hours start there. So by the usual rule, 12:00 noon is written 12:00 p.m., and 12:00 at night is 12:00 a.m. This matches the timeline, where the green a.m. arrow ends at noon and the blue p.m. arrow starts from that same point.
Point to the middle of the timeline together, because seeing where noon sits makes the rule easier to remember.
After the page: a.m. and p.m. at home
To begin, compare the five answers with the answer key on page two. Then pick moments from your own day, such as waking up, the school bus or bedtime, and ask your child whether each one is a.m. or p.m. Finally, let your child read a time on a digital clock and say which half of the day it belongs to.
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