Lucky Charms Measurement

Today we introduced measurement by measuring with Lucky Charms!  We measured several small items from in our desks like: a pencil, marker, glue stick, journal, folder, etc...  After we measured all of the items we discussed our different lengths.  Many of the students had different numbers written down.  This started a great discussion about the different size of some of the objects or how we laid out the cereal. The journals and folders though were the same in size, so why do we have different measurements?  After lots of great math talk we decided Lucky Charms were delicious, but not a good unit to measure with. Tomorrow we will start our measurement with standard units!