Yesterday, we had a chat about measuring and all the things that we could measure. Mrs Cameron was very impressed that we remembered that you can measure temperature and wind from when we did our weather topic. We also knew that you could measure the size of something and we decided to investigate lots of ways of doing that.
We used cubes to measure different parts of our classroom. First we estimated to get a good idea of what our answer should be, then we actually measured. We knew that we should all get the same answers, because we all used cubes of the same size.
Later, we used our feet and hands to measure things. This time, we realised that we would not all get the same answers, because we all have different sizes of hands and feet!
We talked about how big furniture shops do their measurements and Sophia knew that beds were measured in centimetres because she had got a new bed. We talked about why they wouldn’t use hands or feet to measure furniture and Laith knew that that wouldn’t work because everyone needs to know exact sizes and if we all have different sizes of hands and feet, that would be too confusing.
The last thing we did, was to use rulers to measure things in centimetres. We definitely need more practise with this but we got the general idea of looking for zero on the ruler and placing it at the edge of what we were measuring.
We got some photos of us, lined up from tallest to smallest and then lined up from oldest to youngest. Some of the youngest of us, are quite tall and some of the oldest of us are quite small! We went on to have a good chat about healthy eating, getting enough sleep and genes, all contributing to how much we grow. What a lot we packed in!
