Measure Me!

With Spring here we have been growing sunflowers (see earlier blog), sorting seeds, and comparing heights and lengths.  It's a good time to introduce non-standard measurement activities.  Last week we measured many classroom objects - scissors, pencils, glue sticks . . .  But, the very best kindergarten measuring activity was measuring each other.  What fun!

The children measured each other and recorded how many cubes long the parts were on a body picture (feel free to copy the page below if you'd like to try it).  I left it open to see what they would like to measure. They measured feet, head width, ear length, mouth width, hand length, leg length and even body length!  They giggled and laughed during measuring, but turned into serious mathematicians when recording:)  It was time to end math even before they were finished.

Enjoy!  Molly

Feel free to copy recording paper here: