We were careful to put the two lengths side by side to compare, always lining up on one side to make sure we were measuring correctly. Our streamers also curled up, so we had to straighten them to measure correctly. We recorded our findings in our maths journal. We were so clever that at the end of maths time we lined up our streamers, side by side (aligned along the edge of the mat) to compare their length. We lined them up from shortest to longest. This was tricky, it took a lot of talking, moving, swapping and changing where our streamers were, but we worked it out in the end!
In Maths today Rosella revisited length and we were given a piece of streamer. Our task was to move around the classroom to find as many objects as we could that were longer than, or shorter than, our streamer. Firstly we had to make some guesses, or estimations, about what objects we thought would be longer, taller or shorter than our streamer. Then it was time for action! We were careful to put the two lengths side by side to compare, always lining up on one side to make sure we were measuring correctly. Our streamers also curled up, so we had to straighten them to measure correctly. We recorded our findings in our maths journal. We were so clever that at the end of maths time we lined up our streamers, side by side (aligned along the edge of the mat) to compare their length. We lined them up from shortest to longest. This was tricky, it took a lot of talking, moving, swapping and changing where our streamers were, but we worked it out in the end!
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Continuing our work on length today, Rosella read the book 'Chrysanthemum' by Kevin Henkes. We enjoyed the story very much, but we were also amazed to discover how long her name was. Chrysanthemum has 13 letters in her name - half the number of letters in the alphabet! We wondered who had the shortest name in our class and who had the longest. We decided we could count the letters, but we also thought we could measure the length of our names by comparing them visually - lined up against each other. To compare fairly and accurately we cut and pasted the same sized letters into the same sized grids (so no gaps or overlaps). We also made sure we aligned the names at one end on the floor. We discovered Ila has the shortest name and Lachlan has the longest.
We also completed two other length activities today and recorded our findings in our Maths Journal. We compared the height of Grug to flowers and trees and we also helped Grug and Cara judge the longest snake competition. We were careful to put the snakes side by side to compare, always lining up on one side to make sure we were measuring correctly.
Here is the story 'Chrysanthemum' below to enjoy again at home.
Today in maths Rosella also started investigating length. We've been using words such as long, short, tall, longer, shorter, taller, shortest, longest, tallest and the same as. We were given a paddle pop stick and we went searching around our classroom for an item we thought was shorter than our stick and one that was longer than our stick. We put our items on our tables. We learnt today that to compare the lengths of different items accurately we have to line them up at one end. We did a great job! We also enjoyed watching 'How Big is the Magic Bus?' with Flynn and Dodley. Here is the link below if you would like to watch it again at home. Do you think the bus was magic?
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About UsRosella is a class of 17 happy and enthusiastic children excited to be in Kindergarten at Helensburgh PS in 2017. Our teachers are Mrs Jan Fuller (Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday) and Mrs Sue Dowling (Thursday and Friday) Our school is in NSW, Australia. Please feed Jig an apple and spray him clean if he rolls in the mud!
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