Measuring

We have been focussing on measuring this month. Mostly, we have been discussing non-standard measurement (using cubes, linking chains, shoes, etc), however, we have touched on standard measurement a bit as well. Today, we read a story called the "How Big is a Foot?". It is a great story about a king who uses his foot to measure how long his bed needs to be, but the carpenter has a much smaller foot, and thus, the bed ends up being much too small. We then took all our shoes off, compared them, and ordered them largest to smallest.