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Capacity Fractions

This maths scheme of work for Key Stage One gets the children to identify and record the matching capacities of different sized bottles when using fractions to describe and compare how much liquid each bottle can hold. The class can identify the correct vocabulary words that can be used to describe a bottle’s capacity.

Fruit Drinks
Explain and record how to divide pictures of cup shapes to illustrate their different capacities using a range of matching words to indicate their sizes in fractions

Filling Containers
Practise dividing some different shaped containers and vessels using sets of unit fractions to match a range of vocabulary words to show their capacities

Filling Bottles
Explore how to identify and compare the capacity of some different sized containers and vessels using unit fractions and matching vocabulary words
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Castle Defense
Investigate and record different ways that castles were constructed and located in the past to provide protection to the inhabitants and local community
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Digit Addition
Practise adding different pairs of single digit numbers to record matching sums to ten using concrete equipment and diagrams to support calculations
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Suffix Sentences
Identify and illustrate how word roots can change their spellings meanings after suffixes have been added when used in some example sentences
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Dragon Poems
Select descriptive vocabulary to use when writing poems that play with language to describe different parts of a dragon