Measure Me

We revisited length measurements this week by playing “measure Anna” game. I took different color ribbons and used them to measure different parts of Anna’s body – neck, arm, leg, foot, etc. Then she cut the ribbon, we measured the length of the ribbon with a ruler and a measuring tape (the ruler turned out to be too small for some parts) and then we taped the ribbons to the big sheet of paper. Anna really enjoyed the entire process and came up with her own ideas as to what can be measured. She also predicted how the different parts of body will measure against each other and checked her predictions comparing different pieces of ribbons. And she got to use scotch tape – something that she loves dearly, but cannot use without help. Very quickly we had what she called “Anna’s chart”. I also learned something new – for example, that the largest measurement was achieved by measuring “Anna’s big bottom” – that’s how she called that part of her body. She was quite proud of this – she was walking around telling papa that she has the biggest bottom in the whole universe. I don’t expect this joy to last for long, and we did discuss how she doesn’t want to become a round butterball mouse and therefore needs to eat more meat with veggies and less pasta with butter.
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