Mrs. Spence’s Class

Today we spent most of our time finding things to measure. We measured with the smallest measurement, millimeter. We found little things like the width of a pencil lead. We then used a little bit larger unit, the centimeter. For this unit we measured larger things like erasers. We moved to the next larger unit, decimeter. We used our booklet we completed yesterday to remind ourselves that a decimeter is 10 cm. With this unit we measured larger items like the computer monitor. Finally, we used our meter stick and measuring tapes to measure a meter. Reminding ourselves again, we remembered that a meter is 100 cm. The chalkboard was a long item to use to measure with meters and I think the back door was exactly one meter! For kilometer, we just wrote what we could measure - like from our house to the school.

Here are the units in order from least to greatest:

millimeter (mm)

centimeter (cm)

decimeter (dm)

meter (m)

kilometer (km)

Hm…what do all these words have in common?

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