Activities Linked To Length

[Guest]

Please, please, please, any ideas welcome, first week back always exhausting!! Our H/T topic is Houses and Homes so if it can be linked all the better.

[Guest]

I have a bag of ribbons, children pull out one and say if it is long or short.

[Guest]

I've seen a soft toy maths set consisting of a number of knitted snakes of different lengths (and widths) and some sticks. Children could match snake and stick by length, decide whether shorter, longer etc.

Not a lot of help with your topic though!

Jean

[hali]

Hi

 

You could make some houses out of shapes and put them in rows either to measure against something else like tables or to measure against each other......which row is longest/shortest.............

[Guest]

Thank you, i have those snakes somewhere had forgotton about them! Had planned something with building tower blocks and comparing sizes. Ribbon idea is nice.

[Dahlia]

Use hand prints to measure something. For instance a doll. Compare the difference between how many adult/child hands long the doll is.

[Guest]

hi

 

i have stuck different lengths of masking tape of the floor and provided the children with corresponding bits of string/ ribbon. They have to 'measure' and find the one that matches - can involve estimation aswell as lots comparison and vocab, too long, too short etc

we also drew different length tails on mice and made playdough sausages

 

Lizz

[Beau]

You might already have this but I came across it by accident and thought I would share it for those who don't!

 

http://www.standards.dfes.gov.uk/midbins/n...s_reception.PDF

[Guest]

Hi

We've measured the length of our tables by seeing how many duplo bricks or straws fit across the table and then used a tape measure.

[Guest]

What a great site Carol-thanks for that. Even though it is meant for reception there are some lovely ideas we can use with the older children at pre-school. We are always getting stuck for ideas to do as a large group! Are there any more for literacy etc?

Linda