Exploring and Playing
Measuring weights
Maths Reception
This unit is part of
Reception Longer Maths Blocks Comparison and Measures and
Reception Maths Planning Comparison and Measures
Active Learning
Creating and Thinking Critically
Maths Out Loud
Counting
Show children 1-10 on the washing line. Give each child a number card from 1 to 10.
Point to 5 on washing line. Hold up your number if it is more than 5! Hold up your number if it is less than 5!
Repeat with other numbers.
Chants/Rhymes/Songs
Sing ‘One potato, two potatoes’ or this variation: ‘One tomato, two tomatoes’ . Discuss which numbers are more than 6.
Story
How to Weigh an Elephant by Bob Barner
You Will Need
Exploring and Playing
A selection of as many balances/scales as you can find; catalogues; sticky notes; bucket/rocker balance; Duplo® bricks; a range of small toys, e.g. play people, animals, cars, trains, gems, or natural materials, e.g. pine cones, conkers, acorns, shells, small pebbles etc; scales; baby dolls; clipboard; paper and pens; soft toy animals.
Active Learning
Three shoes; bucket/rocker balance; wooden bricks/counting dinosaurs; sticky notes; apple, orange (heavier than the apple); reasonably uniform small pebbles; reasonably uniform big pebbles; marbles (or other uniform, small, heavy objects); items heavier and lighter than 20 marbles; 5 equal-sized carrots; 5 paper bags; wooden bricks (or other items such that 5 carrots weigh about 20 objects); toy Rabbit; sticky labels.
Creating and Thinking Critically
Bucket/rocker balance; weights; ingredients for a simple recipe, e.g. cheese scones or cookies; 5-20 cards; access to the sand pit; small spade; bricks, e.g. Duplo®; playdough; boards; multilink cubes; >500g each of several types of bulbs; paper bags.