During Math yesterday, we had a lesson on pan balance scales. I happen to have a pretty good one, thanks to the teacher next door to me, who gave it to me.
This little scale comes with its own little weights, but it's more fun to measure real things. We were choosing items that we thought were of equal weight. This toilet paper owl weighs as much as two dice in dice! It was fun to choose objects and try to balance both sides. Oh, and "Dice in Dice" is my name for the dice. There's a little die inside of a bigger die, hence: Dice in Dice.
This was equal in weight as well, one dice in dice and 4 weights were equal to one dice in dice, a bigger weight and a big paperclip. We also had a little competition in which the kids could choose what to weigh. They were very clever. It was Juliana who won the whole thing by placing her Reading Anthology on the scale, tipping it in her favor over a pencil box full of supplies. It was a very loud lesson. The kids were very impressed.
The bad news for yesterday's lesson though was that I was supposed to show the kids a spring scale, but I don't have one of those. We talked about it, and looked at the picture in our Math book, but it just wasn't the same...but THEN....
Today Maxine came in with a spring scale from home!! Her family has one! And it looks like an owl! We used it to measure our Reading is Cool metals-one of them, and then ALL of them! Plus we weighed the globe! That guy was almost 4 lbs!!! Super cool! Thanks Maxine for bringing in the spring scale!
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