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18 newsletter-ready sample blurbs and a QR code to share. For preschool and classroom newsletters, counselor's corners, PTO bulletins, and SPED & OT corners — paste and go. Three of them are third-party descriptions, written for media and blogs.

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Classrooms · counselor's corners · PTOs · SPED & therapy · family use · article writing

Newsletter-ready sample blurbs

For the "this week's tools," "around the office," "column," or "feature" slots in preschool and classroom newsletters, counselor's corners, PTO bulletins, SPED & OT corners, plus third-party descriptions for media and blogs — 18 samples

Sample blurbs you can paste into a school, classroom, or therapy newsletter. Six contexts (Preschool newsletter / Classroom newsletter / Counselor & nurse corner / PTO bulletin / SPED & OT corner / Media & blogs) × three lengths (roughly 50 / 100 / 200 words). Trim, stitch, or rewrite to fit whatever column you've got.

These aren't testimonials. You're welcome to add your own impressions from actually using it.

No credit needed. If you want one anyway, this line is plenty:

Futatoki the Learning Clock App (free, no sign-up) — futatoki.app

Preschool newsletter ~200 words Knowing what comes next
Futatoki the Learning Clock App at 9:30 AM with arrival, music, lunch, nap, snack and play icons on the face — illustration for a preschool newsletter feature on knowing what comes next. Save image
When a child knows what comes next, the day is easier to settle into. When the flow at school and the flow at home line up, it gets easier for a child to picture how today will go. Futatoki the Learning Clock is a clock app for children in which the parts of the day are painted in color, like slices of a pizza. Even at an age before clock-reading, "which part of the day is it now" can be told by color. Icons for arriving at school, lunch, and the rest can be placed on the face, so laying out the morning together at home is one way to use it. It runs free in a browser, with no sign-up and no ads. The site also has a printable kit for re-facing a clock you already own, cut to its size.
Preschool newsletter ~100 words A clock you read by color
Futatoki the Learning Clock App at 10:30 AM with a clean clock face — the parts of the day painted in color, with white outlines on the color boundaries and numerals. Illustration for a preschool newsletter column on reading a clock by color. Save image
Futatoki the Learning Clock App is a clock with the parts of the day painted in color. The boundaries between colors and the numerals are outlined in white, so neighboring colors can differ sharply without the face feeling harsh on the eyes. A palette called "universal", made with differences in color vision in mind, can be chosen too. A way into time before clock-reading arrives.
Preschool newsletter ~50 words Auto-rotate
Futatoki the Learning Clock App at 1:50 PM (13:50) — the afternoon face stands out while the morning face sits faded, since the time falls in the afternoon. Illustration for a preschool newsletter sidebar. Save image
Futatoki the Learning Clock App has an auto-rotate mode in which a full day cycles in about 24 seconds. Watch the hands travel once around the colors of morning through night, together with your child.
Counselor & nurse corner ~200 words Seeing the daily rhythm
Futatoki the Learning Clock App at 9 PM, with bath, bedtime, breakfast and other daily-routine icons placed around the face — illustration for a counselor or school nurse newsletter feature on visualizing the daily rhythm. Save image
"For young children, an analog clock is a mysterious shape-shifting thing." That line comes from the intro page of an app called Futatoki the Learning Clock. The hands move slowly, so to a child the clock may look like a tool whose shape changes when nobody is watching. In this app, icons such as breakfast, bath, and bedtime can be placed on the face. When a hand draws near, the icon wiggles, so a child can watch time move rather than only notice that it moved. Laying out the wake-up, mealtime, and bedtime sequence together at home is one way to use it. No install, no sign-up, and no ads.
Counselor & nurse corner ~100 words Seeing the daily rhythm
Futatoki the Learning Clock App at 7:30 PM with evening icons (dinner, bath, bedtime) — illustration for a counselor or nurse newsletter piece on the daily rhythm. Save image
Some children find "what time did you wake up this morning?" hard to answer. As a first step toward a steadier daily rhythm, it can help to make a spot at home where a clock is easy to see. Futatoki the Learning Clock App can be left on the screen of a tablet nobody is using any more, where it works like a desk clock. It runs free in a browser, with no sign-up.
Counselor & nurse corner ~50 words Seeing the daily rhythm
Futatoki the Learning Clock App at 7:00 AM showing the day's routine stamps — illustration for a counselor or nurse newsletter sidebar on daily rhythm. Save image
In the auto-rotate mode of Futatoki the Learning Clock App, a full day cycles in about 24 seconds. The long hand can also be faded out to leave only the short one, which makes the run from morning to night easy to follow together.
Classroom newsletter ~200 words Math corner — telling time
Futatoki the Learning Clock App at 2:30 PM (14:30) — illustration of an in-between time for a classroom newsletter feature on telling time. Save image
In the telling-time unit, quite a few children get stuck on how the long and short hands relate to each other. Chances to move the hands and check at home tend to help the lesson land. Futatoki the Learning Clock is a clock app for children that runs in a browser. It shows the morning clock and the afternoon clock side by side, and the hands spin by dragging anywhere on the screen. "What shape is half past two?" is the kind of question to work through together at home. The same site also gives away printable clock faces with no hands, for writing on. No install, no sign-up, and no ads.
Classroom newsletter ~100 words Math corner — telling time
Futatoki the Learning Clock App at 8:00 PM (20:00) with the crisp colors palette — illustration for a classroom newsletter column on telling time. Save image
In Futatoki the Learning Clock App, the colors of the clock face can be changed to taste. Starting from picking a favorite color can be a way in for a child who finds clocks off-putting. It runs free in a browser, with no install and no sign-up. For clock practice at home.
Classroom newsletter ~50 words Math corner — telling time
Futatoki the Learning Clock App at 8:00 AM showing a clean clock face with no stamps — illustration for a classroom newsletter sidebar on telling time. Save image
Futatoki the Learning Clock App is a clock app whose hands spin by dragging anywhere on the screen. Move them together at home, asking "what time is it now?", as clock practice.
PTO bulletin ~200 words What's working at home
Futatoki the Learning Clock App at 4:00 PM (16:00) with the day's family routine icons placed on the face — illustration for a PTO bulletin feature on family use at home. Save image
The age at which a child starts reading an analog clock varies from child to child. Digital can be easy while analog stays hard, sometimes for a long stretch. Futatoki the Learning Clock is a browser app for children that shows the morning clock and the afternoon clock side by side. There are seven color schemes, and combined with how the numbers and tick marks are shown they give over 100 faces to choose from, switched step by step as a child's reading develops. Start with the crisply color-coded face. Once that feels familiar, drop the color for a single-tone one. Further along is a face where only the four cardinal numbers remain. If a step feels too hard, you can go back at any time. The site even has a printable kit for re-facing a clock you already own, cut to its size. It is free, with no sign-up and no ads.
PTO bulletin ~100 words What's working at home
Futatoki the Learning Clock App at 7:00 PM (19:00) — illustration for a PTO bulletin column on a family clock-spinning game at home. Save image
In Futatoki the Learning Clock App, the hands can be spun around and let go wherever you want them to stop. "What time is this?" works as a guessing game between parent and child. As the hands go around, the sun and moon rise and set behind the face. It runs free in a browser.
PTO bulletin ~50 words What's working at home
Futatoki the Learning Clock App in timewatch mode at 7:52 AM, with the 8 minutes left until 8:00 drawn as a wedge — illustration for a PTO bulletin sidebar on family use at home. Save image
Futatoki the Learning Clock App has a timewatch mode that shows the time left as a wedge. One way to show "a little longer until we leave" during the morning rush.
SPED & OT corner ~200 words Visual time support
Futatoki the Learning Clock App at 1:00 PM (13:00) with music, tooth-brushing, lunch, learning, and break icons placed around the face — illustration for a SPED or OT corner feature on visual time support. Save image
In visual-schedule work, some children do not take to picture cards or standard clock manipulatives. In the browser app Futatoki the Learning Clock, schedule icons can be placed on the clock face. Enter the delete mode and a small remove button appears beside each icon, swaying; press it and the icon spins away and disappears. Finishing a routine and taking it off yourself becomes something a child can mark with their own finger. No install, no sign-up, and free to use. Offered as one more tool you might choose for your setting.
SPED & OT corner ~100 words Visual time support
Futatoki the Learning Clock App at 3:00 PM (15:00) with a brightly color-segmented face — illustration for a SPED or OT corner column on building a sense of duration through color. Save image
There are stages where "how many more minutes" is hard to put into words. Futatoki the Learning Clock App has a timewatch mode that shows the remaining time as a wedge, so a shrinking span can be checked by eye. The colorful face has clear boundaries between colors, which also allows counting "four colors until lunch." It runs free in a browser.
SPED & OT corner ~50 words Visual time support
Futatoki the Learning Clock App at noon (12:00) with a clean clock face and a thin seconds bar at the top of the screen — illustration for a SPED or OT corner sidebar on keeping the visual load low. Save image
Futatoki the Learning Clock App shows seconds as a bar at the top of the screen rather than as a hand. With no second hand on the face, there is less on screen to take in.
Media & blogs ~200 words Third-party description, facts only
Futatoki the Learning Clock App at 9:00 AM with a full day of routine icons (breakfast, tooth-brushing, leaving for school, lunch, play, dinner, bath, bedtime) around the face — illustration for a media or blog description. Save image
Futatoki the Learning Clock is a clock-learning app for children that shows the morning clock and the afternoon clock side by side. It runs in a browser, is free, needs no sign-up, and shows no ads. Seven color schemes, combined with how the numbers and tick marks are shown, give over 100 clock faces, from a color-coded one to a face where only the four cardinal numbers remain, and they can be switched step by step as a child's reading develops. Schedule icons such as breakfast and bath can be placed on the face, and a timewatch mode shows the remaining time as a wedge. The site also gives away a printable kit for re-facing a clock you already own, printable clock faces with no hands for writing on, and sample blurbs for newsletters, all usable without asking permission first. futatoki.app
Media & blogs ~100 words Third-party description, facts only
Futatoki the Learning Clock App at 11:00 AM with leaving-for-school, lunch, snack and dinner icons on the face — illustration for a media or blog description. Save image
Futatoki the Learning Clock is a clock-learning app for children that shows the morning clock and the afternoon clock side by side. Seven color schemes crossed with the number and tick-mark options give over 100 clock faces, switched as a child's reading develops, schedule icons can be placed on the face, and a timewatch mode shows the remaining time as a wedge. It runs free in a browser, with no sign-up and no ads. futatoki.app
Media & blogs ~50 words Third-party description, facts only
Futatoki the Learning Clock App at 10:00 AM showing a clean clock face with no icons — illustration for a media or blog description. Save image
Futatoki the Learning Clock is a clock-learning app for children that shows the morning clock and the afternoon clock side by side. It runs free in a browser, with no install and no sign-up. futatoki.app
QR code PNG for Futatoki the Learning Clock App — links to futatoki.app, for use on handouts, newsletters, and worksheets in a kids' clock app context.

QR code PNG

A standalone QR image that links straight to futatoki.app — for sticking onto a classroom newsletter, a counselor's corner, a PTO bulletin, a handout, or a worksheet.

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