Inch by Inch

Today's book of choice was Inch by Inch by Leo Lionni. We've been digging deeper into our Trees inquiry and the illustrations of branches and leaves throughout the book peeked the children's interest. After taking a picture walk and reading the story during Morning Meeting, the children were inspired to use measuring tape to measure building blocks and our writing table. They were tickled to make the connection between the inchworm in the book with the inch found on the measuring tape.

All of the excitement about measuring lead to K.K wanting to build a bridge with building blocks for the inchworm to walk under. A.R joined her and the teamwork began. They both seemed to identify the size and strength of the bridge as too weak for a car or truck, yet they still tested it's ability to hold various objects at different heights.

A.F. decided to place chairs around the bridge to catch the towers if they fell.

During afternoon exploration, our 2's began weighing bears on the balance scale. Both K.H. and  K.K. were  intrigued with how difficult it was to load the scale with the bears already in the measuring containers.

Today our "Ponytail Palm" tree inspired drawings with colored pencils. K.H. experimented with different types of pencils to create circles (leaves) and lines (branches).