Wiggly Worms and Warm Weather!

It was so nice to see the sun shining today.  While it was very wet and muddy this morning, we did get outside this afternoon and took a little walk around the neighborhood before we played on the playground.  During Math this morning we did a fun measuring activity: each student was given a green strip of paper and their job was to make a 'worm.'  After the worms were created we worked together to arrange them on a piece of paper from shortest to longest. A student arranged his worm in a square pattern (cutting it up and taping it together) and this was a great real life example of an object that was BIGGER (took up more space) than the others.   Students were able to explain that while it was bigger it wasn't LONGER when you lined up the endpoints.