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We brought out the rulers and measuring tapes this week. Read on to see all of the ways we explored measurement in preschool…
We began our day by reading this oldie, but goodie to the children. Prior to reading our story, I asked the children if they knew what the word lengthy meant. The children seemed a little stumped, until I began asking them some inference questions. I invited them to look at the cover of the book and to tell me about the dog. A few of them shouted out that he was long. To which I answered, “Yes! He is long! Lengthy means long.”
“Lengthy“ by Syd Hoff is a fun story about a dachshund named Lengthy. As his name suggests, he is an unusually long dog. Throughout the story, Lengthy uses his length to play with children, to help his owner, and in the end, to save the day…
After reading our story, I invited each child up to the front of the classroom so that we could see how long, or how tall, each of them were…
Each child was invited to choose his or her own colored marker. With their marker and a ruler, we measure how tall we were and then invited the children to write their own name or initials next to their height on our butcher paper…
We discussed who was the tallest, then who was the next tallest, and so fourth. I knew there would be a bit of down time while each child was being measured, so I brought out a box of plastic chain links to fill in the gap. I invited the children to see how long of a chain they could make while we were busy measuring heights. Each child took a handful of chain links and quickly got to work connecting them all together…
After we finished our discussion of the children’s heights, I gave each child their own measuring tape and then helped each child lay out and measure the chains that they had been working so hard to assemble…
We then assembled the chains into one long giant chain that stretched clear across our classroom…
While working on the very basics of measurement, I emphasized how important it was to start at the very end of the ruler or measuring tape by the 1 inch mark in order to get an accurate measurement. Measuring tapes and rulers were left out in various places around the classroom for the children to explore throughout the day…
The few measuring activities that I shared with you today were just the beginning of a fun-filled day of measurement exploration. I can’t wait to share a few of our other fun measurement activities with you later this week…
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Links to grow on:
Exploring measuring tools in preschool by Teach Preschool
Measuring with legos by A Mom With a Lesson Plan
Outdoor maths: measuring the size of sticks by I’m a Teacher, Get me Outside Here!
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Thks for the idea! Going to use it this summer !
What a fun this is, kids love to know that how long they are
Well frankly speaking I also love to measure my height after some time :$
Gorgeous. Kids love this sort of play and what great learning along the way. Cute book too!
I am about to do measurement so I was excited to see this link! Our local library does not carry this book, so I looked on amazon. The only copy was $274.00! You have a valuable book:)! Plus yours is signed!
I have had this book for years! I always hate when one of my old faves can’t be easily found anymore. But it gives me a good excuse to hang onto all my books when my hubby starts grumbling about getting rid of a few:)
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