Today we started our unit on weights and measures. To introduce this topic we sat down together and I asked them if they remembered when they went to the doctor and they were measured...how the nurse measured their height and told them how many inches tall they were, how she measured their weight and told them how many pounds they were. Let me tell you why that was such a huge mistake. :)
The worksheets I had printed out had different objects that the girls could measure...a toothbrush, a safety pin, an eraser, stuff like that. Well once I mentioned the doctor the girls related everything they saw to getting a shot. Sydney said "Oh we can measure the pokey thing (the safety pin) so we can see how far in the shot will poke us." Scout said (measuring the line on which they were supposed to write how many inches long the eraser was), "And when they shoot us with this thing it will be 2 inches in our arms." Yikes. Obviously they have some trauma over kindergarten readiness. ^_^
I better come up with another idea before we start weighing things tomorrow!
