perimeter

Today at school we talked about perimeter in math. The kids had fun measuring with different tools - yard sticks, rulers, tape measures. At the end of the lesson before going home a couple girls asked if they could measure the perimeter of my belly! They ran to get a second tape measure "just in case" when I said yes! I measured 48 inches around! Then one little girl said, "hey let's see how many centimeters that is - we'll get an even bigger number!" She was right: 123 centimeters. I've taught her well!