We listened to this story first. Then we began talking about what we can use to measure.
We realised you can measure with lots of different objects, but that using different objects makes it hard to compare how big or small something is.
Some of us used paper clips, some used counting cubes and some used teddies to measure our feet.
We measured different objects from around the room, like pencils, scissors, books and hands and feet. We also measured some of our toys on Toy Tuesday!
We also used different sized containers to measure how much water it took to fill the different containers! We are going to keep going with our measurement, looking at measuring and comparing different sized objects with various units. We will also be looking at a ruler and exploring centimeters.
Have a look at this ruler. What's bigger a cm or an inch?
On a Tuesday Autahi children are allowed to bring a toy to school. Our toys serve as good inspiration for our play--we create things for them, make up stories about them and share them with our friends.
Here is some of what we've been up to with our toys this week:
I made a race car for my doll. I also wrote about it at writing time!
Here are some of the learning links:
I had to measure to make sure it would fit.
I had to cut practising fine motor skills.
I had to test things out, think critically and creatively when things weren't working and try something new.
We made a bat cave for Batman and our cars turned into the different bat mobiles.
Here are some of the learning links:
We had to work well together, making compromises and decisions
We had to think creatively and problem solve
We had to listen to other people's ideas and express our own
We had to think about measurement and making a cave that would fit our cars and Batman
We measured how long this toy was. We used paperclips. She was 7 paperclips long!
We played cupcake shop. We ordered cupcakes and made them for the customer. We brought our toys to get cupcakes too. We were thinking about money and payment. We were connecting to the social sciences by thinking about roles (shopkeeper and customer) in the community.
We also did some writing about our toys. Some of us wrote descriptions of our toys and others wrote about our toy in the context of a story we read.
Toy Tuesday is fun and it provides us with meaningful experiences throughout our day!
We have been exploring measuring using non-standard units. First we used small objects and we measured little things like whiteboard pens, notebooks and staplers. This week we used bigger objects and measured bigger things. We measured how tall we were. We measured our school bags. We also measured the computers. To measure these bigger items we had to use bigger units. This time we used pipe cleaners, cotton buds and ice-block sticks.
