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Measuring Words on the Toy Shelf

Kindergarten practice naming what we can measure about toys, such as length, height, and weight, and describing one toy in more than one way.

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  • Single worksheet
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  • 1 Common Core standard
  • Printable answer key
  • 12 questions
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Format
Interactive · Printable
Grade
Kindergarten
Subject
Math
Question types
Fill in the blank, Multiple choice, Matching, Circle the answer, Sorting, Short answer

About this worksheet

What students practice

  • Students name the measurable attribute of an object, such as length, height, or weight.
  • Students tell measuring words like long, tall, and heavy apart from words like red or round.
  • Students describe several measurable attributes of a single object.

How to use

Read each question aloud. Bring a few real toys to the rug so children can lift them and line them up before they answer.

Curriculum

Common Core standard covered

K.MD.A.1

Describe things about objects that can be measured, such as length or weight.

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Measuring Words on the Toy Shelf

Is it long, tall, or heavy? Name what you can measure.

What are we measuring?

Read about each child. Choose what they are measuring.

1.
Ella lays a jump rope flat on the floor. She lines up cubes from one end of the rope to the other end. What is she measuring?
  • A. weight
  • B. length
  • C. color
2.
Sam puts a toy truck on a scale. What is he measuring?
  • A. height
  • B. color
  • C. weight
3.
Raj stands a toy giraffe next to a tower of cubes. He counts how many cubes high it reaches. What is he measuring?
  • A. height
  • B. weight
  • C. shape
4.
Circle the words that tell about something you can measure.

longredheavystripedtallroundshortfuzzy

Measuring words

Use the clues to tell what is being measured.

5.
Does each one tell how long or tall, or how heavy?
a long train tracka heavy toy trucka tall stack of blocksa box that is hard to lifta short piece of stringa feather that is easy to lift
How long or tallHow heavy
6.
The toy shelf reaches up high, almost to the ceiling.
Word bank: height · weight · color

That tells us about its  .

7.
Mom needs two hands to lift the bin of toy cars.
Word bank: color · weight · length

That tells us about its  .

8.
The toy snake stretches all the way across the rug.
Word bank: weight · color · length

That tells us about its  .

One toy, many ways to measure

One toy can be measured in more than one way.

9.
Match each question to what it measures.
  1. How long is the toy train?
  2. How heavy is the toy drum?
  3. How tall is the dollhouse?
  4. How much sand does the pail hold?
  1. A. height
  2. B. how much it holds
  3. C. length
  4. D. weight
10.
Omar has a teddy bear. Which things about the bear can he measure? Choose all that are right.
  • A. how tall it is
  • B. what color it is
  • C. how heavy it is
  • D. what its name is
11.
Which one is NOT something you can measure about a toy truck?
  • A. how long it is
  • B. what color it is
  • C. how heavy it is
12.
Pick a toy in your room or classroom. Draw it. Tell two things about it that you can measure.

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