Ahh, Spring! It’s the time of year you get to experience the cozy warmth of winter ending and new life budding. That is until 3 hours later when you have to throw on a heavy jacket to do car duty! – Ahh, Spring!
In all seriousness, it is my second favorite season of the year! (Why only second? Read the paragraph above again! *sniffle*) It’s when I would get to talk to students about the earth’s changes and experience their excitement over picking flower weeds at the playground again. Spring also brings many holidays, and as you know, if you follow along with my blogs, I LOVED to make each and every holiday special, no matter how small!
If you’re like I was when I taught, and you enjoy bringing special days to life by incorporating them into your lessons, then you’re going to love these measurement centers! They include activities for St. Patrick’s Day, Earth Day, and the Spring season!
Each center helps students practice measuring to the nearest centimeter, inch, half-inch, or quarter-inch. Your students will estimate the measurements of the different-sized pictures that relate to the theme and then get the true measurements with a ruler. Included is a recording sheet where they can compare their estimation to the actual length from the ruler.
While fun, these centers are also really engaging and are great practice for using rulers, estimating, and measuring!
Here are a few extra-special ways you can use these in your classroom!
The St. Patrick’s Day themed measuring center has colorful pictures of all things green, gold, and lucky! You can double these images as a resource for your St. Patty’s Day lessons and bulletin board as well!
For a fun twist, you can print the recording sheet on green paper and use “gold coins” as a nonstandard form of measuring!
Earth Day is an incredibly special day to celebrate in your classroom! Students need to learn about the importance behind Earth Day, and what better way to bring up the convo than with a fun math center, right?
For a little extra fun and time filler, you can take a quick class field trip outside to gather one earthy item to measure with (or ask students to bring this item in from recess). A small stick, leaf, flower, rock, piece of grass, or whatever else your kiddos find that represents the earth. They can then use it as another way to measure the images!
Just like the other two themed centers, this flowery small group activity brings familiar fun to the math center table. It has cute spring pictures of butterflies, flowers, and animals.
As a nonstandard unit of measurement, you can use fake flowers from the dollar store or print off a small flower they can cut and color for morning work!
There’s so much you can do with these centers, or even use them simply as they come! Getting extra measuring practice is always a great bonus, and these centers are always amazing for use year after year, and you can be as creative as you want with them!
You can grab all three of these measuring centers exclusively as a bundle here! What’s better than a low prep, fun center? THREE low prep, fun centers in one resource! Score!
I would love to see these resources in action! If you grab these for your classroom, feel free to leave a comment telling me how your students liked them!
