Measurement anchor chart kindergarten

Length anchor chart (first grade level)

Nonstandard Measurement activities and lessons help kids learn foundational measurement skills. This is always one of my favorite math units because students are highly engaged, since nonstandard measurement feels very much like play to them! They get to use ordinary objects to determine the length of different objects. Who wouldn’t want to learn to measure […]

Kindergarten measuring anchor chart

Made this chart for my kindergarten math unit on measurement

Teaching measurement to a kindergarten class is hard!!! I think it's one of the most challenging units, mainly because there's so much to measurement (length, height, weight, temperature, capacity) and some concepts (such as where to start measuring and where to end!) can be difficult for students to fully understand. I created my Measurement in Kindergarten unit keeping these things in mind. All of the activities are hands-on and have students learning through play. When I start planning…

We started with these questions. The kids knew a lot about measurement. They just needed help with the vocabulary. With a little bit of help they were able to come up with these answers. What does it mean to measure something? Tell how big it is, tell how small something is What qualities of an object can be measured? Length, height, weight, capacity How can I measure something? Use a ruler, compare it to something else Does how I measure matter? Yes! They have to start from the same place…