We have been learning about measuring and we use a lot of non standard measurement. That means we don't use a ruler but rather we use things like paper clips, shoes or unifix cubes. Today we were brainstorming where it what would be a more appropriate measure - paper clips or unifix cubes. I quickly realized that they were unsure of where to use each one. For example they though they could use a shoe to measure a piece of paper and paper clips to measure a vehicle.
So just like the Magic School Bus we were off on a field trip! They quickly learned that paper clips take forever when you are measuring something big. But they perservered and discovered it was around 300 paper clips long but only 13 shoes long. After we were done both they had a better understanding of where each unit would be best used.
Blogger is being painful. I will try to upload pics later! Happy Wednesday!
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