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Aaron Moon

I would use this book to teach measurements by first doing a read aloud and asking the students have they ever measured anything? Is it important to? Whats the purpose of measurements? I would create a gallery walk for the students by stationing activities around the classroom for them.

1. A set of cup of rocks, cup of feather, cotton balls, fake change and dollar bills and a cup of marbles will be at a table and the students will determine if one weighs less, more or equal amount.

2. A yard stick will be presented by a wall and a student will take another students height with the yard stick.

3. Another station will have a measuring tape where the students will figure out how far they will stretch.

4. Last station will be to measure how high they can jump where a measure stick will be posted high enough for the students to find out how far they can reach.

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Is A Blue Whale The Biggest Thing There Is?

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Is A Blue Whale The Biggest Thing There Is?

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by Robert E. Wells

(post by Becky Deafenbaugh)

While this book doesn't give specific measurements of things in our traditional unit formats, it does make the reader think about  sizes, and comparisons, and I really like that it introduces facts about each of the items it uses to compare sizes.
It goes from a fluke to a whale, to a stack of jars of whales, to Mount Everest, to Earth, and on up the chain through the solar system, and finally brings us back to a blue whale.
I can use this book to get students used to comparing sizes of objects, and then get them offering comparisons of their own.
ie. Student shoe vs. teacher shoe;
student hand vs. teacher hand;
primary chair vs. teacher chair;
car vs. bus;
bike vs. jet;
carton vs. pitcher;
perhaps even summer vs. winter with temperatures, but this will depend on the students and if they can grasp that temperature isn't something you can touch and measure that way, it needs to be measured a different way.
etc.
Using these comparisons, I can introduce how to measure each of those smaller things, and introduce our systems of measurement.

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Jade Reed)

*The Inchworm and a Half is about a worm who lives in a garden. She is on a quest to measure every plant in the garden. New growth of the gardens vegetables gives the Inchworm more fractions to conquer! Math and measurements are tasty tales for the inchworm.

This book is a great learning to tool for students ages 4-7 years old who need to learn about measurements.

After Reading activities
After Reading this book to my students I will have my students break up into groups, and pretend that they are inchworms crawling through a garden.  They will be assigned to measure various plants brought in by me the teacher. They will then have the opportunity to present their finding to the class.

The class will then have to briefly give a brief description of the book as well as why they liked the book or didn't like the book.

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My class  had a hard time using the ruler and this book I will use to re-enforce the concept we will read the book twice Once before the activity on measuring and then after and hopefully it will help them understand.

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(Kylie Fleet)
The book Counting on Frank is about a boy and his parents who uses different types of measurement to fuel his wild imagination.

Lesson Plan: After reading the book aloud I would ask students to create their own version of the book. Their version should include:
-How tall they would be if they grew at the same rate as a tree in their yard
-How long it would take to fill their bathroom with water
-How long would it take you to put every single item of clothing you own
-How tall would the pile of your least favorite food be in your kitchen

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