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Dear Family,
Your child is learning how to use customary and metric units to measure the capacity, weight, and mass of solid objects. He or she will also learn when it is appropriate to use measurements of liquid volume or weight. In addition, this topic teaches your child how to solve problems that involve adding or subtracting time intervals using pictorial models or tools to build understanding of elapsed time. The following activities are intended to reinforce your child’s understanding of capacity and weight.
How Much Water?
Collect some measuring cups, pint and quart measuring containers if available, and some unmarked containers, such as pots, pans, pitchers, and glasses. Fill the unmarked containers with random amounts of water. Have your child guess how much water is in each container.
Then, use the measuring cups or containers to check the accuracy of the predictions.
Weighing In
Get a bathroom scale and a group of ordinary household objects, such as a book, a small wastebasket, a box of detergent, and a boot. Have your child predict how much each object weighs, and then use the scale to check the predictions.
“In the land of Gallon , there were four giant Q ueens. Each Queen had a P rincess and a
P rince. Each Princess and Prince had two C hildren. The twins were 8 years old.
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