Next I used colourful letters to attract the children's gaze and attention. I used the Cricut cartridge Makin' the Grade.
It worked as my children in the classroom have all come over to the area to look at it and talk about it. It is from here I can scaffold/support their learning and extend the activity by introducing different things the children can measure. This follows by a size of the object being found. First the size is a number in Centimeters or Inches. Then I ask "is this Big or Small?" My children look at me and I suggest we measure another item. After this we can discuss the Big and Small characterisitics and put the two items beside each other. We talk about the two number measurement of the items and compare it to the numbers Scholar's Choice poster that shows the number in multiples of items. We point and count out each number that was found in the measuring and work on learning which number is big and which is little.
