Well, this is my attempt to "Teach an old dog new tricks!" I have been teaching for 40 years.  I retired for a year and tried working as a substitute.  Although I have a renewed respect for a good sub, I realized that I was not yet ready to give up having a classroom of my own.  Last year, I was lucky enough to have a principal who believed in me enough to hire me as a kindergarten teacher.  So, now I'm trying to catch up on all the new technology.  I would love to start a blog, but just don't know if I can. LOL!  Anyway, here is a post (random as it is!) about a measurement activity that we did this past spring. We discussed whether we  could measure items with our feet, and if so, would we all come up with the same answer. So, we practiced with everyone taking 3 giant steps. Did we all end up in the same place?  Why not?  We took turns measuring our rug with our footsteps and made a chart on how many steps long the rug was for each child. Why are they different numbers?  Then, we traced our foot and cut it out.  We compared our footprints with our friends and discussed whose was shorter/longer and shortest/longest.  My class had difficulty with this vocabulary and wanted to say everything was bigger or smaller.  Do yours do that?  Then, I set out different units of nonstandard measurement at each table. I used paper clips, pattern block squares, pattern block hexagons, and 1' tiles.  The children rotated to each table, measured and recorded how many of each object it took.  I walked around and asked questions such as, "Do you think it will take more hexagons or more paper clips? Why?"  After all was done, we got together and discussed our results and why it turned out that way.  Okay, my first "test" post!!