May
13
Gallon Creatures
We finished our math book, so I have been teaching mini-lessons to introduce a variety of concepts. Today we had a lesson on capacity. We learned that two cups equal a pint, two pints equal a quart, and four quarts equal a gallon. Quarts is similar to quarters and just like there are four quarts in a gallon, there are four quarters in a dollar, an hour, and a football game.
Max made a great observation. The words gallon, quart, pint, and cup are in order by the number of letters found in each and by their capacity size.
We made these gallon creatures to help us compute capacity problems.