[ Music ] [ Sound of water ] Oh, goodness, what time is it?

Am I late?

Taffy, would you call and see what time it is for me, please?

The time is now 8 o'clock.

Good, I'm not late.

Did you realize when you saw all these things that they are clocks, instruments that you can measure and tell time?

Let me show some of them to you.

This is a sundial, and in order to tell time with this clock the sun has to be shining.

This is called a nomen and the sun shines on it in it casts a shadow.

This is a candle clock.

These clocks are kinds of burn up.

And the clock, one kind, has a marking on it like this.

And then we tell what time it is by how far the flames have burned down.

Another kind of a fire clock is this one.

And again, the shadow of the flame casts, the shadow is cast over here and we tell what time it is with that.

This is a clock, I'm sure you see, a wristwatch.

And this is a pocket watch.

This is an hourglass or a sand clock.

And we tell time with this one the sand from the top container goes down to the bottom container.

And in an hourglass it takes just one hour for that to happen.

Some of your mothers probably have these in the kitchen and they use them to time eggs.

But do you think they measure an hour?

No, you'd have mighty hard boiled eggs, wouldn't you?

The one that your mother uses is a three minute timer and that's what this is.

This clock isn't a traveling alarm clock and it folds up in its case.

And it can be easily packed away.

This is what we call a perpetual clock.

If it's on a level surface, it doesn't have to be wound, it just continues to run.

Many of you have probably seen a radio clock like this.

If it's plugged in when you wake up in the morning, you wake up to music rather than allow it alarm.

This is a water clock and in this one the water runs from the top container down to the bottom container and then the markings along here tell you what time it is.

The clock over here is a pendulum clock.

It has springs inside of it which make the pendulum work.

This is also a cookbook clock.

Let's see if I can make the cookbook come out and tell you what time it is.

If we turn it up here, maybe it will come out more than once.

This clock is a novelty clock.

Look at these eyes.

The one eye tells what hour it is and the other eye tells minutes.

The clocks over here are electric clocks.

I'm sure you're familiar with these.

These have to be plugged in in order for them to work.

And what have we got back here?

Did you ever think that a rooster was a clock?

Roosters have been waking people early in the morning for thousands of years.

But that kind of a clock has to be fed, doesn't it?

I have a lovely song about a rooster.

And in this song, the rooster does not tell time, but he does crow just like our rooster here.

And the name of it is, "I love my little rooster."

It's an accumulative folk song.

If you're not sure what that means, I think you will know after you heard the song.

I love my rooster.

My rooster loves me.

I love my rooster by the cottonwood tree.

♪ A little Oh, Mr. Ghost Cock Do, Do Do DoDoDoDoDoDoDoDoDoDo ♪ ♪ Do, do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do ♪ ♪ Do, do, do, do, do do do do do do do ♪ ♪ I love my duck my duck loves me ♪ ♪ I love my duck by the cottonwood tree ♪ ♪ A little Oh, duck corn ♪ My little old rooster goes cocked to the door.

He don't we do we do we do the youth.

I love my cow, my cow loves me.

I love my cow by the cockwood tree.

My little old cow goes to the door.

My little old dog goes pooh, my little rooster goes cocked to the door.

He don't we do we do we do we do.

I love my goose, my goose loves me.

I love my goose by the cockwood tree.

My little old rooster goes pooh, my little old cow goes pooh, my little rooster goes cocked.

He doesn't we do we do we do we do.

Isn't that a wonderful song?

I think you're going to enjoy singing in your classroom.

And you know now it an accumulative folks on your, using the same thing over every time that you just add one more animal each first.

You'll enjoy singing.

Clocks are important.

It is necessary to have some kind of a clock, isn't it?

And I've decided a rooster is a pretty noisy kind of a clock to have.

If you had a sundial you would have to run outdoors every time to see what time it is, wouldn't you?

And a sundial only tells time in this when on a sunny day a cloudy or rainy day it would not tell time or at night you wouldn't be able to tell time.

And what about a stand clock like this?

It tells time for an hour but in order for it to keep accurate time you would have to be right there the minute the last grain of sand came down to turn it over.

And that would mean every hour while you were playing outdoors you would have to run in or every hour while you were sleeping you would have to get up and turn your sand clock over again.

And water clocks probably would not be as difficult to take care of especially if you had one that was large enough to hold a full day supply of water.

But if you did the container would be so large you would probably have to keep that outdoors and what would happen on these cold days.

The water would freeze would your clock tell time?

No.

And I do think that candles are very pretty.

I love them on birthday cakes and I think they're very pretty on a dining table but for a clock I think I'd rather have something else.

Do you think maybe a clock that has a face on it would be a better kind of a clock for us to have?

Do you need to have a clock?

Do you need to know what time it is?

Would you tell what time it is?

What time to go to school in the morning?

Or what time to eat lunch if you didn't have a clock?

See if you know what time to hands of a clock say now.

Seven o'clock.

Can you look at these small clocks and see if you can find another one that says seven o'clock?

Does this one?

Look at it.

Sure it does, doesn't it?

And let's look at what this little boy is doing at seven o'clock in the morning.

Is that what you're doing at seven o'clock in the morning getting up?

All right, let me change the clock again.

What does it say now?

Can you find another clock that looks like that?

It's pointing to eight, isn't it?

And at eight o'clock, what are we often doing?

If you go to morning kindergarten, you're on your way to school, aren't you?

Now let's see if you know what time it is.

What does the big clock say now?

It's a clock.

Can you find a small clock that says ten?

Does this one?

Does that one?

Yes, it does.

And at ten o'clock, what's an activity that you're often doing?

And can you garden your eyes yet often having juice at ten o'clock in the morning or in two?

I think you know what time it is now.

When both hands are on the 12, it's 12 o'clock.

And can you find the small clock that says 12?

What are you up here in the tap?

And at 12 o'clock, what are you doing?

Eating lunch.

It's time for the bad, isn't it?

Let's count and see what time it is now.

One, two, three, four o'clock.

And at four o'clock, you found the small clock that says four?

There it is.

And what are children often doing at four o'clock in the afternoon?

The door is playing right.

Now the big hands on the 12 and the small hands on the 6, what time is it?

Six o'clock.

And here it is.

What are you often doing at six?

Eating dinner at night.

Good.

And now it's seven o'clock at night.

What's an activity you're doing at seven o'clock at night sometimes?

You're father reading your stories before you go to bed.

And now it's changed the clock one more time.

Now it's eight o'clock in the evening and where are our kindergarteners at eight o'clock in the evening?

In the end.

Good.

Now I'm going to pan to my some of these activities for you.

You watch me and guess what I'm doing.

You ready?

What was I doing?

I'm getting up in the morning, right?

And when I'm getting up in the morning it's seven o'clock, isn't it?

Now this time I'm going to ask you to pan to my an activity for me.

And do you know what pan to my means?

It means act out without talking.

I'll set the hands of the clock and then you act out the activity that you would be doing at that time.

I've set the hands of the clock at 12 o'clock.

Now if you're not sure what you're supposed to do at 12 o'clock, look at these small clocks and they'll give you a good clue.

Are you doing what I'm doing?

Eating lunch.

Good.

All right, let's try one more.

I'll set the hands of the clock at eight o'clock at night.

And if you're not sure, you look at the small clocks and see what you do at eight o'clock.

Are you doing the same thing now?

Sleeping.

Good for you.

That time is important, isn't it, boys and girls?

If we didn't have time, clocks, we would not know what time to go to school in the morning and your teachers wouldn't let you out of school at the same time and the stores wouldn't open at the same time and the stores wouldn't close at the same time.

Things would really be in a terrible model, wouldn't they?

So time is very real.

But had you ever thought about the time, is it can be imagined too?

Do you wonder what imagined time is?

Well, now think about this.

Think how you'd feel if you knew that your mother was going to pick you up right after school to take you out of the airport to meet a plane with a guest.

Would you be excited about it?

I think you would be.

And with the hours while you were in school, go very slowly or do you think that they might go very fast when you're waiting for something exciting to happen?

And think about this.

Remember those first few weeks of kindergarten when you weren't too sure you were happy being at kindergarten and away from your mother all morning, all afternoon?

Did those two and a half hours go by very fast or did the time kind of drag and grow very slowly?

So you see circumstances make time seem different to us than it does to the clock.

I once heard a story about a king and a queen in time.

Would you like to hear it?

It goes this way.

Once upon a time there was a king who was very punctual.

In fact, he was very, very punctual and he was married to a beautiful, lovely queen who was not at all punctual.

In fact, she didn't give a snap of her dainty fingers about the time of day.

She was late for breakfast with a king and she was late for lunch with a prince and the princesses and she was even late for state dinners with visiting kings and queens.

And worse than that, she was late for parades when she and the king would ride in their golden chariot and she was late for appointments with a dressmaker and appointments with a hairdresser and even late for appointments with a crownmaker.

And she was always late when it was time to read the blitter prince and the princesses bedtime stories.

And this worried the king because he thought being on time was very important.

And he didn't want people to think that his queen was rude and he thought and he thought about some way that he could help her be on time.

And he was right about that, wasn't it?

Nobody enjoys waiting for anybody, not even a queen.

And he would say to the queen, "Why don't you wear a wristwatch like I do?"

And then you'd never be late and the queen would say, "Oh, if I wore a wristwatch, I'd dislike them so they would ruin the appearance of my beautiful bracelets."

And so the king would say, "Well, why don't you wear a watch around your neck on a gold chain?"

And she'd say, "You silly, silly king, if I did that, it would ruin my beautiful necklaces."

So the king shook his head.

He didn't know what to do.

He knew that his wife loved jewelry and she wouldn't want to do anything so that they would blitter.

And so the queen continued to be very, very late and the king continued to try to think of something to help his queen be on time.

It was very near her birthday one year and he was looking, searched all over for a gift that would be both beautiful and suitable for his lovely queen and in the back of his mind he kept clinging that maybe he could find something that would also help her be on time.

And at last two days before her birthday he had a wonderful idea.

He called the royal jewelry makers to come to him and they went into deep conference for several hours.

And when they came out of conference they were smiling, the king and the jewelry makers.

And you know for two days and two nights the lights in the royal jewelry shop burned and just as the queen's birthday dinner was ready to begin the doors open very wide and the two royal jewelry makers bearing a big mammoth pillow, walked into the dining room, they walked forward and they got to the throne and they bowed low.

And when the queen saw it was on that pillow she squealed with delight.

For there was the most dazzling ring she had ever seen it must surely had been made of very gold.

And then the king gently picked up the ring and placed it on her finger and as he did that he snapped a little spring.

And what do you suppose happens?

The queen gasped and the king chuckled and they looked at each other and they giggled.

And if you don't think that it's dignified for a king and a queen to giggle you're just going to have to change your mind because this king and queen did giggle.

For the king had played a tremendous joke on his queen.

And do you think he was a wise queen?

A king I do.

For after that his queen was never, never late.

She was always on time.

The queen was a king.