- various tools that measure size (measuring tape, ruler, etc.)
- measure
- size
- tool
MA Standards:
English Language Arts/Speaking and Listening/SL.PK.MA.1 Participate in collaborative conversations with diverse partners during daily routines and play.
Head Start Outcomes:
Language Development/Receptive Language Attends to language during conversations, songs, stories, or other learning experiences.
Language Development/Expressive Language Uses language to express ideas and needs.
PreK Learning Guidelines:
English Language Arts/Language 1 Observe and use appropriate ways of interacting in a group (taking turns in talking; listening to peers; waiting until someone is finished; asking questions and waiting for an answer; gaining the floor in appropriate ways).
Talk Together: Measuring Tools
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STEM Key Concepts: Name and use simple equipment and tools (e.g., rulers, meter sticks, thermometers, hand lenses, and balances)
ELA Focus Skills: Compare and Contrast, Listening and Speaking, Vocabulary
Display the measuring tools for children. Ask children if they recognize any of the tools. Explain that we use tools to measure things, and there are many different measuring tools. Ask children, Have you ever used any of these tools? What did you use them for? Talk with children about any tools you have used and why. Tell children that the reason we measure something is to tell its size: how big, small, long, short, wide, narrow etc., it is. Ask children to tell about a time when they have measured something to find out its size.