Guest Posted February 25, 2007 Share Posted February 25, 2007 Hi... hope you all had / are having a good half-term... i'm back in tomorrow so thought i'd better spare a thought to what i'm doing this week... anyhow, we're doing length and as 'Measures' is our whole-school focus we always invite parents in to see what kind of things we do... and I want to make sure that there's plenty for everyone to be doing... and so I thought I'd check on here and dip into this rich fountain of brillaint ideas that everyone always seems to have... any good ideas for doing length? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted February 25, 2007 Share Posted February 25, 2007 Ourselves - how tall we are - create a height chart Buildings - skyscrapers, flats, bungalows etc Bricks - how tall stretchy playdough - how long can we stretch it - measure with a ruler bricks how long can we make it and how many will it take to get across the room Use newspapers, wool to measure things Measure hands and feet and wellies and shoes, possibly hair Use torch in darkened room to see how far it projects Make lengths of beads, involve sequencing etc Do lots of guesstimating on heights of things and create a bar chart Animals - who is tallest, shortest Make colourful snakes of different lengths and colour/paint Use a map of the world and measure disntance from country to country Create sunflower pictures of differing heights for comparison In fact you can probably measure anything but my brain hurts and my dinners ready I will think on some more Nikki And what about spaghetti - long and short Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted February 25, 2007 Share Posted February 25, 2007 Use shoe laces, ribbons, strips of paper etc - can children find things inside / outside that are shorter, longer or the same. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted February 25, 2007 Share Posted February 25, 2007 Put wet sand into tights and see how far they stretch! Does one scoop of wet sand stretch them aw much as one scoop of dry sand? Grear fun and lots of language Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted February 25, 2007 Share Posted February 25, 2007 also put wet sand into gloves and socks. when we did this we got lots of conversation and observations done . Even weeks after the children ask for socks in the sand. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Susan Posted February 25, 2007 Share Posted February 25, 2007 Length is not height, it goes along the floor not from the floor to the ceiling although we do talk about the length of curtains or trousers etc and measure them up rather than along but I think children need to know there is a difference and would not use self for comparisons of length other than when they are lying down on the floor ie I am longer / shorter than the table. Ive made mice with different lengths of string/ wool for tails and had great fun measuring against the tails to find things that are longer or shorter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted February 26, 2007 Share Posted February 26, 2007 I understand the point you are making, Susan, but length does not have to be along the floor - it is the distance from one end to another. Height, however, is the distance above a fixed point. Tights can therefore stretch to different lengths. I don't think this is a problem for Reception children, though it may be for younger ones? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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