Using everyday language to compare and explore capacities

Early Years Foundation Stage

Maths

Measures

﻿Hi friends, it's Miss.Molnar here, and we are going to do some maths learning today. Now, I am extra super excited for this lesson because we are going to be exploring capacity today. And you're going to eat quite a few items for this lesson, but don't worry, it's going to be lots of fun. So let's see what you're going to need to get together in order to do this lesson. So I've gotten a friend here with me today to help me get all of the items we will need for this lesson. It's Harold the hedgehog, say hi ,to Harold to everyone. All right, so Harold is going to go help get me all of the items I need for this lesson. So pay attention closely, and we'll see what you need to ask a parent or carer for. So for the start of today's lesson, you're going to need some empty different size containers that you can find around the house. So they might be empty water bottles like this. They might be some plastic, other containers that you've got like milk jugs. So anything like that and you also may be able to find and see what kind of different measuring containers you've got in your house. So make sure you ask a parent or carer and they can help you get some of those items ready. Later in the lesson you're ever going to make some oatmeal playdough which I'm really excited about. So if you ask your parent or carer, I'm sure they'll help you get some of these other items ready later in the rest of the lesson. So what you'll need is a mixing bowl to mix all of the ingredients in. You're going to need something to measure out cupfulL with. So it doesn't need to be a measuring cup, but it needs to be something that could be a cup full. So I'm going to use a tea cup today. You're also going to need some flour and you're going to need some oats And then the last thing you'll need is some water, but you can just get that from the tap. So you're going to need the pause the video now, and go see if you can collect with your parents or carers, some of those items and we can get started on today's lesson. So I went and gathered some containers that I had in my recycling and my kitchen. So you might want to try the same thing if you ask a parent or carer as well. So I've got one, two, three, four, five different size containers. And I feel that a measuring cup full of some water to help demonstrate today. So which of these containers do you think would be able to hold the most water? And why do you think that? You can pause the video and have a think? Wow, I think that this container will hold the most water because it is the tallest container. Is that what you said as well? Now, I wonder which container do you think might hold the least amount of water and why do you think that? This is a tricky one, I would say, I know this container or this container might hold the least amount of water. I'm not sure about this one because it's wide at the bottom, but it gets really narrow when it goes to the top. So it could fool me a bit to see, shall we test out this container and this container to see which one will hold the least amount of water or the most water. So I'm going to take my water here, the same amount, and I'm going to pour it into this container really carefully over the sink. So again, you're going to need a parent or carer to help you. Now, I filled up this container all the way to the top and I still haven't used all of the water. So this containers and there's still a bit of water left, I'm going to adapt the water. And now that see what happens when I take this container now to fill the jar. So be very carefully sink, again you need a parent or a carer to help you. I'm going to fill up this container, see how far I can get. Oops. All right, now, this container is full all the way up, but I don't have as much water left in my container in the end. Do why last time I had a bit more water left over. So that means that this container can hold more than this container. So this one would be able to hold the least amount of water. Alright, you might want to have a go at this for a few minutes. You can pause the video and ask a pair of her care for a few different size containers and see if you can guess which one will have the largest capacity and which one will have the smallest capacity. So which one could hold the most and which one could hold the least. Have a go at that for a few minutes and then unpause the video and we'll get onto the next step activity. Alright, we're going to go through some new vocabulary to help us do some describing out loud, and it might even help us make our oatmeal playdough. So I've got a container that is filled up all the way to the top with water. How could I describe how it's been filled? Wow, I describe it as full. This container is full because it's been filled right to the top of its capacity. I can't fill it up anymore. So I say, you say full, well done. All right, Now I've got this container here. Has it been filled all the way to the top this time? No, it hasn't. You're right, it has been filled halfway up to its capacity. So I could describe this container as being half full. I see you say half full, well done. All right, I've got one last container here now. How could we describe the water in this container? That's right, there isn't any water filled up in this container? This container is empty. We can use the word empty to describe a container that has nothing in it. I say you say empty, well done. So, I thought it would be a good idea to make some oatmeal playdough so that we could make some, Oh, wait, Harold cover your ears. I don't want to speak to the louder because I thought we could make some cakes because it's going to be Harold's birthday. Shhh. So I thought it could be a surprise if we make some oatmeal playdough we could make some pretend cake for a surprise for Harold's birthday. What do you think about that? I thought it was a good idea too. So we thought we'd make some oatmeal playdough so we could have fun playing with some playdough. So let's see what we're going to need to do and be able to understand in order to make this playdough. Like I said earlier, I'm going to use a teacup like this, to do some measuring with, for my oatmeal playdough. So at the moment, how could we describe the cup? How could we describe how much flour or water is in the cup? That's right, the cup right now is empty because there's nothing in it. Right now, it's empty. So what I'm going to do first is I'm going to get some flour and I'm going to pour some flour in the cup because when I do some measuring, I need to be good at this. And then you could help me describe the cup. So I'm going to start filling up the cup. And I'm going to stop filling about right there. All right, so I'm just going to shake it a little bit to level it out. All right, so I filled up my cup here with flour. Is it empty? That's right, the cup is no longer empty because I've put some flour in it. Could I say that the cup is full? If you said the cup is not full, you were so right, because I could still fill it up a little bit further. Do we see that it's not quite at its full capacity? I still fill it up a bit more. So the cup is not quite full. Do you think I could describe the flour right now as it being the cup being half full? If you said no, it's not half full. You are right as well, because I've filled it up a little bit too high to be half full. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to pour a little bit of my flour back. And I'm going to see if I can get it about half way full. So I could say now that my cup is about half way full. All right, we've got an activity for you to do now. We would like you to go get some flour and some kind of cup that could be a cup full for measuring. And we want you to experiment saying out loud, the cup is full, the cup is half full, or the cup is empty. Now, if you don't have flour, you could ask a parent or carer to help you use some water or some rice or something else that you can use to fill up the cup. All right, so you're going to pause the video now and have a go at experimenting with full, half full, and empty. All right, this is the fun thing. Let's see what we're going to need to do to make our oatmeal playdough. So I've got my mixing bowl right here, and I'm going to see what ingredients we're going to need. Don't worry you can pause the video and you can see the recipe posted before afterwards. All right, so we're going to meet one cup of flour, one cup full of water and two fulls of oatmeal. All right, once we've got those together, you can pause the video step-by-step. If you want to make it at the same time as me, or you can watch all the steps all together and then go back and make it yourself afterwards. So here we go. The first thing I'm going to need to do is put all of my ingredients into the bowl. So I've got my cup full of flour, and I'm going to pour that in. Next, I'm going to need cup full of water. So I've got some water in another container and I'm going to pour into my cup full. So I make sure I've got the same amount. All right, so I've got my cup full of water, and I'm going to pour that into the mixing bowl. Now, do you remember how many cups of oatmeal did we say we needed to have. That's right. We need two cup fools of oatmeal. So I'm going to take my first cup and fill it up. . All right, so I got my first cup of oatmeal to go in. And I need one more cup full of oatmeal. . I'm just using some plan oat to go in. Once I feel that all the way up to the top, then I can put my second cup full of oatmeal into the bowl. All right, so I've got all four of those steps into my mixing bowl. Let's see, what's going to happen next. So now what I need to do is I need to stir up my mixture. So in a second, I'm going to show you how I'm going to stir it up, and then I'm going to knead together with my hands to make it a little bit more like playdough. So let's see how we're going to do that. Alright, so now I've got a wooden spoon and I'm going to stir up my playdough mixture, going to make sure that all the wet ingredients mix up all the water mixes up nicely with the oats and the flour. So I'm going to stir it all up. So I've just finished up, stirring up my mixture in the bowl, and this is where it gets a bit messy. So again, make sure you ask a parent or carer to help you and for permission. So what I've done is I've taken my oatmeal mixture out of the bowl. And if yours is a little bit too dry, what you can do is add a tad bit more water to it, to make sure it's a little bit sticky, but you don't want it to be too sticky. So once you take it out of the bowl, if it's too sticky, what you can do, is you can add a little bit more flour to it. So I've just got some flour on my chopping board here. I'm just going to mix that in a bit which it's not too sticky. And then what you're going to need to do is take your fists and need it as if it's like dough. So just folding it over and needing it. If it's bit too sticky, just get a little bit more flour and put that flour on top. So it's not sticky and it's not sticking to your hands. Until it starts to be a little bit more like some tomato. Guys you can keep going, until it starts to look like some really fun dough that we can be using to make Harold some cakes, for his birthday. And there we have it. All right, so I've gone ahead and I've made Harold his birthday cake out of the oatmeal playdough. Shall we sing? Happy birthday, everyone. Are we ready, in three, two, one, ♪happy birthday to you ♪ ♪happy birthday to you ♪ ♪ Happy birthday dear Harold ♪ ♪Have a happy birthday to you ♪ Make a wish Harold. All right, well that is all we have time for today. Thank you for helping us celebrate Harold's birthday. And we hope you really enjoyed your learning as well. If you'd like you could take pictures of the amazing learning you've done today and share it with your teacher. We know that they would love to see what you've been up to. And if you like, you could ask your parent or carer to share your learning with us at Oak 'cause Harold and I would love to see all the birthday cakes that you made. Thanks everyone. Enjoy the rest of your lessons.

Using everyday language to compare and explore capacities

Using everyday language to compare and explore capacities

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