100th day of school

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100th day of school
By Fran

I am a math teacher in Brooklyn, New York. One project that I planned with a third grade class was to estimate 100 feet from their classroom door. I traced my shoe, which wasn't one foot long and then I used the ruler to
make it exactly one foot. I then cut a few out and laminated them. The children traced the feet out and I collected them. I then made a string of ten feet for all of the feet. I laminated those ten strings of feet. When I went back to my third graders I showed them what ten feet looks like. They then estimated where 100 feet from their room would be and placed it on a chart. With

all of the students in the hall we taped the feet to the ground. We first taped 50 feet and I asked them if they thought their guess was correct. Some did and some didn't. They were all very surprised at how far 100 feet was. It also looked cute on the floor. I then displayed their guesses and we did a writing assignment afterwards.