Maths, Reading & Visualisation

In reading we have been working on our comprehension strategies.  Last week we focused on visualization - they way we can create mental images when we read to deepen our understanding of the text.  We read a short passage that explained how to measure a very tall object without having to climb it and we visualized how we would do this.

Yesterday we went out and put this knowledge in playground to practice. Paige and I me measured the fire pole on the playground. To do this you have to hold a pencil at a arms lengths away from your face and walk backward till your pencil is making the height of the thing you are measuring and then get a friend to stand at the base of the thing you are measuring. then you tern your pence on its side and then tell your friend to step side step till they are inline with the end if the pence then tell them to FREEZE. Then measure the length of the distance between them the the thing you are measuring. The length of the pole was 6.27m but we got 7.45m, so we were a wee bit out!!! Ha ha

This is Paige and I am behind the camera