Rulers, Birthday, and Forces of Motion!

During math today we worked on measuring in both inches and centimeters.  We started by looking at both of them on the ruler and making observations about them.  As a class we decided that centimeters are much smaller than inches.  The kids decided to call them the BIG inches and the tiny centimeters :).  Then they each got to pick an item and measure it first in inches then next in centimeters.  They then had a chance to present them and tell both how many inches and how many centimeters the item was. 

 

 

Happy Belated 7th Birthday Rachel!!!

 

Push and Pull Challenge!

 

We started learning all about the forces of motion today and focused on pushes and pulls.  After a discussion about ways to move things we dove in to our big challenge.  Each team picked one item and they had to figure out a way to make the item travel 12 inches with out being touched by anyone!  At first they were annoyed and thought it would be impossible.  Then you could see some wheels turning and they started to think about other items they could use to either push or pull the item across the table.  In the end they were all successful and figured out ways to get the item to move 12 inches!