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Cut flowers and spread out onto grass mats, green rice or in a sensory tray

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You might like to attach flowers to dowel or a paper straw to provide strength.
Collect manipulatives or unifix cubes
Use in maths rotations/play based numeracy

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Use manipulatives to measure different height flowers
Record on sheet

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Extend children by setting out other manipulatives and the optional
recording sheet to measure with bigger or smaller items
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 Line up cubes along the flower
BLOOM! stems to measure their height.
Record how many cubes it takes.

1 ________ cubes
6 ________ cubes

2 7
________ cubes ________ cubes

3 8
________ cubes ________ cubes

4 9
________ cubes ________ cubes

5 10
________ cubes ________ cubes
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Choose the item you are going to measure with and line
these up along the flower stems to measure their height.
Record how many of your item it takes.

1 ________ 6 ________

2 ________ 7 ________

3 ________ 8 ________

4 ________ 9 ________

5 ________ 10 ________