Wirral Learning Grid - Maths Support Staff

Understand and use the vocabulary related to length, mass and capacity. Compare two lengths, masses or capacities by direct comparison; extend to more than two.Measure using uniform non-standard units (e.g. straws, wooden cubes, plastic weights, yogurt pots), or standard units (e.g. metre sticks, litre jugs). (p.72)
Suggest suitable standard or uniform non-standard units and measuring equipment to estimate, then measure, a length, mass or capacity, recording estimates and measurements as 'about 3 beakers full' or 'about as heavy as 20 cubes'. (p.74,76)
Understand and use the vocabulary related to time.Order familiar events in time.Know the days of the week and the seasons of the year.Read the time to the hour or half hour on analogue clocks. (p.78)	Level 1: o'clock Level 2: ½ past, ¼ to and past Level 3: 5 minute intervals	BBC Dynamo ‘Clockwise'

Use everyday language to describe features of familiar 3-D and 2-D shapes, including the cube, cuboid, sphere, cylinder, cone, circle, triangle, square, rectangle, referring to properties such as the shapes of flat faces, or the number of faces or corners or the number and types of sides.(p.80)	Sorting 2d shapes using simple chart and number of sides Interactive version of guess the 2D shape appearing from behind the book. 2D shapes and 2D shapes with rotation	PrimaryResources: Shape Sort Primary Resources Shape Reveal
Make and describe models, patterns and pictures using construction kits, everyday materials, Plasticine...Fold shapes in half, then make them into symmetrical patterns.Begin to relate solid shapes to pictures of them. (p.82)
Use everyday language to describe position, direction and movement. (p.86,88)
Talk about things that turn.Make whole turns and half turns.Use one or more shapes to make, describe and continue repeating patterns...(p.88)	Shape stamps, used to create a sequence, repeating pattern	PrimaryResources:

MEASURES, SHAPE AND SPACE