Measuring With Our Feet and Hands!

Monday 18th November

I helped the children with real versus non real words in the morning and I heard a few readers.

A lower ability set were doing an activity recognising words, they had to write down the word on a whiteboard and then spell them out with the magnetic letters and match them to the card word phrase as well as read these out to me. I helped them to stay on track with concentration and reinforcing good behaviour with rewards e.g. they could have a superstar ticket or they could play with the construction kits if they did good work. I was really pleased with the work that they have done, this group has certainly come on brilliantly since September and I am very proud of them!

The children have been doing about measurements and measuring things with their feet and hands. The teacher used 10 steps from the edge of the carpet to the door, a child used 15 steps because he has smaller feet. A child measured the desk using 8 hand spans the teacher took 4 handspans. So the  children learned about feet and hands not being a reliable form of measurement as different people's hands and feet are different sizes. The children have also been using straws, cubes and different lengths of string to measure and estimate sizes of objects. This makes a difference to uses a ruler as the children had to be more creative!

I had a hospital appointment in the afternoon so I had to leave the class for this.