How My Parents Torture Me at Meals _Lowerlevel_01
Imagine you are eating dinner. Your whole family is there. You hear your dad say, “Pass a glass of bread, please!”
Mom responds, “I need three pieces of milk.”
Wait a minute. Something sounds wrong. Did I hear that wrong? You can’t measure bread by the glass! You can’t hand someone three pieces of milk! What’s going on? You look over and your mom and dad are laughing. “Just making sure you are paying attention,” Dad says with a smile.
Having parents that keep track of what you are studying in school is tough. No skipping homework in this house. Even if your teacher doesn’t notice, your parents will. This week is no exception. They know you are studying about measurements of liquids and solids. The crazy conversation was for your benefit. It is their way of making sure you are paying attention in class.
Your class is now a week into this new unit. It’s fun because it involves a lot of hands-on investigations. There are a lot of measurements being made in class. You have learned that mass is a measure of how much matter is in an object.