Today we read the book Measuring for the Art Show. This story is of a teacher who has offered to organize an art show of children's work as a school fund-raiser. The children have produced beautiful pieces of art and the teacher and several children set out to make signs to hand underneath each piece, listing the title of the piece, the artist's name and the price. They want to measure each each art piece very carefully so that the sign will be exactly the same length as the piece of art. But this hug pile of work is daunting. Thankfully, the students soon figure out a solution. They sort the art by size, measure each size, and make a blueprint - a pattern strip - that will be used for cutting all the signs.
The story sets the context for a series of investigations in this unit. Today, we measured various sizes of art paper with connecting cubes.
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