Measuring play dough inchworms

We spent a little time exploring inchworms this week. Of course, you can’t explore inchworms without first reading the book” Inch by Inch” by Leo Lionni.  To extend the book into our play we did a little play dough inchworm measuring…

I made little rulers for my students to use. They are not an exact measurement but they got the idea across and each child got to take their rulers home at the end of the day. I just love play dough – it can be used for so many things! Just the fine motor strengthening that takes place alone is a great thing…

Our inchworms all measured out to be much longer than one inch!

And this is the world’s longest inchworm but unfortunately, we didn’t get around to measuring it so you just have to take my word that it is the world’s longest inchworm…

And after all the inchworm rolling and measuring, the children decided to use my measuring spoons to make prints in the play dough.  I don’t know how we ended up there but I guess they were still working with measuring tools so we headed down a new path of learning all in one session!

Deborah J Stewart

Deborah J Stewart

Every time I think I know everything I need to know about teaching young children, God says, "Hold on a minute!" and gives me a new challenge.

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With each new challenge that you overcome, you will find yourself better equipped and more passionate about teaching young children.

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