Different Ways to Measure

This week the students are focusing how we measure things. We are learning about all the different tools we can use to measure different things like weight, height, and time. Miss Julie brought a box full of various measuring tools and asked the children if they knew what they were and what they are used to measure. There were rulers, hourglasses, a level and a scale. We also read the book "Actual Size" by Steve Jenkins and the children were shocked by all the real sizes of animals around the world. We even measured our own tongues. We talked about why a ruler is a foot and what a foot used to be- the size of the King's foot! So we all traced our own foot and measured things around the room. One of the most popular items was the scale pictured below.

More measurement activities!