Today we continued our unit on measurement and did something really fun! When the students came back to class from music, they found that they had been divided into "teams." After a brief classroom discussion on measuring lines with sticks (being sure to measure end to end, keeping sticks lined up and close together, and taking an accurate count), they were sent off to work as a team complete the challenge of measuring the lines at their tables. They worked very hard to make their measurements!
Then, I surprised them by letting them switch tables and check another team's work. They were allowed to make stars or smiley faces on the answers they agreed with and correct those that they didn't. Fortunately, almost all were correct and they were all very congratulatory on each other's excellent work!
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