Length Weight and Capacity for Yr1 Maths

Practical exercises using everyday items that can be found around the home.

- Write shortest and longest
- Longer & Longest, shorter & Shortest
- Comprehension, longer longest shorter shortest
- Comparing Heights
- Comprehension, tall taller tallest short shorter shortest
- Measurement exercise using hand spans (practical)
- Choose objects and measure using hand spans
- Comparing objects against a metre measure
- Choose objects to compare against metre measure
- Measure lines in centimetres
- Choose items to measure in centimetres
- Use and write “full, almost full, empty, almost empty”
- Compare capacity, “more than, less than, most, least, the same as”
- Comparison, “heavier, lighter, heaviest, lightest”
- Writing sentences using “lighter, heavier”

- supplement existing teaching materials, for
• Reinforcement
• Extension work
• Mixed-age environments