An inch is an inch...

How long is long anyway? It's all a matter of perspective to some degree, but at the moment first graders are examining objects to determine length in comparison to other objects. Today we completed our exploration activities. One group worked with Ms. Carol to group dominoes in patterns while another group worked with me and a bunch of collected objects. We looked at our six-inch rulers then put them away. Afterwards we sorted the objects in piles of longer than our ruler and shorter than our ruler. To complete the activity we placed all the items in line from shortest to longest. The remaining group worked with their rulers to create a many pointed star.

Today we also added new words to our word wall, read some stories of Halloween, played fun games in the gym, weighed pumpkins, wrote about our Theater experience, ate baked potatoes for lunch, began a new art project with Mr. Calhoun and worked with Mrs. Reynolds in Science Lab making candles....just another busy Monday... with lots of learning going on...and on...and on...