How Tall Are You?

Welcome back Pine friends! I hope everyone survived the cold weekend! The Pine friends seemed happy to be back and playing with one another. A few Pine kids began playing in the block area building a tall tower. This is a common structure built, but always seems to have a different purpose each time it's built. 

Today, the tall tower was being used to measure! 

"Look, the blocks are taller than me!"
"B is smaller than the tower!"

"Ms. Jill is taller than it and so is Ms. Kim!"
"Only the teachers are taller."

"I want to make it as tall as me!"

That gave the kids an idea. Could we measure each other using blocks? At meeting we tested that theory. 

"B is smaller than 8 blocks!"

"He is only 7 blocks tall!"

"V is not 7 blocks tall, but she is taller than 6 blocks!"

"E is like a little bit taller than 7 blocks too!"

"I think we should add a block."

"It will be too tall!"

"I think T will be like 4 blocks tall."

"Maybe he is 7 too!"

"Look, he's taller than 5 blocks."
"He is 6 blocks tall!"

"B is so tall!"

"I think he's 7 blocks tall too."

"He is almost as tall as E!"

"Maybe F is like 4 blocks tall."

"He's taller than 4 blocks!"
"You need to add more blocks for F!"

Each child stood next to the blocks as the others told me if we needed to add any or take some away. Once they figured out the blocks were the same height, or at least close to their height, they counted how many blocks tall their friend was. They made predictions, counted, and worked together to try and figure out how tall each other were.

We had a few questions at the end of the day... 

How else can we measure someone?

Does the doctor measure you using blocks?
Can we use tape or the wall to measure each other too?