Length activities for kindergarten

Help kindergarteners compare length & use appropriate vocabulary with this FREE "Shorter and Longer" activity. Great hands on practice for comparing length.

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…

Measuring Length activities that are PERFECT for little learners! My students loved this name activity, too!

Help kindergarteners compare length & use appropriate vocabulary with this FREE "Shorter and Longer" activity. Great hands on practice for comparing length.

Non-standard measurement activity - students measure the length of their shoe using cubes. They compare the length of their shoe using longer and shorter. Free download!

It’s time for some cool and engaging measurement activities for your preschooler. As for the measuring skills, they are an inseparable part of kids lives. Whether you teach them or not, you will see signs that they are developing their measurement skills with the help of the stimuli in daily life. #measurement

Jump into this non-standard magnetic measurement activity for preschoolers and introduce non-standard measurement using magnetic tiles.

Hi friends! Today I'm going to post about how I taught measuring length this year. As always here is the unit plan and lessons outlined for easy planning if you want to follow along with my lessons! Click on the image to download it as a pdf for free! I always start my measurement unit by talking about shorter and longer. First we introduced the vocabulary short, shorter, long and longer and then completed this chart whole class. I had strips of construction paper ready and I had the…

Kindergarten Measurement and Data worksheet - cut and paste shorter and longer activity

Inchworm, inchworm, Measuring the marigold. You and your arithmetic... You'll probably go far! So here is the beginning of my Kindergarten Measurement Unit. This is a fun unit, and that's a great thing, because we spend a lot of time on it! The unit is divided into 4 sections: length, surface area, weight and capacity. (We're also supposed to do temperature, but we cover that so much in science that we skip it in math). As with everything, we start out with lots and lots of hands-on…