Fairy Tale Maths Measurement.
A little wee while ago we did measurement, I decided to turn it into a fairy tale theme as I love a fairy tale theme along with space and dinosaurs its probably one of my favourites and lets face it everything (I think) is way more fun with a fairy tale theme.
We started with Jack and the Beanstalk, we read the book and talked about giants and how big is a giant. This is always fun as really and honestly how actually big is a giant?? Bigger than a bus, a skyscraper, my dad some did say. We then moved on to beanstalks and how tall can a beanstalk really grow and how tall can a magic beanstalk grow and then we finished with the worksheet below.
Lesson 2 was inspired from "Step into 2nd Grade with Mrs Lemons"
http://www.stepinto2ndgrade.com/
I stumbled apon the below image of their cute Measurement Gardens. Which I loved so thanks! I tweaked it a wee bit and instead we measured each other using string and the chn created their own (Jack and the not so magic beanstalk) bean stalk - a strip of green card the same height measured from their piece of string and then adding their decorated leaves (as my class is very young the leaves were photocopied.) We then ordered them and discussed tallest, shortest etc. And labelled. eg. Lara's beanstalk is taller than Sam's beanstalk.
Moving along we then read "Goldilocks and the Three Bears", we talked about bigger, biggest, smaller and smallest. Biggest chair, smallest bowl etc. I created the worksheets below but as time was becoming precious we only managed to do the first one which I basically used as my evaluation to see whom was able to order size.
We all traced around our feet and measured each other and recorded our results, we did this in partners and then swapped partners. Along the way writing on each childs individual sheets their own name and how many feet long they found the measured child to be. We all came back to the mat and talked about why different children found different results and how we could fix this.
And don't you just love it when that one little voice proclaims "because our feet are different sizes" Yippee. So the big question how can we fix this?
Bring on the piggy rulers!
Back to our fairy tale theme, it was time to measure with an equal measuring tool bring on the "Piggy Rulers" whats a piggy ruler you might ask. Just a line of little piggies. You can enlarge them to A3 if you would like longer rulers I photocopied on to A4 and then laminated for future use. We had a quick discussion on how to measure accurately, from one end to the other.
We measured the straw house, the brick house, the pig and the wolf all of which I had photocopied quite a few times, cut individually and laminated. Completed the worksheet. And then it was a free for all how many piggies long is your foot, your hand, your friends foot. They loved it! Anything and everything was measured.
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Thanks to
for the wonderful clipart.
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