Sunday, June 23, 2013

Episode 3

Lily made one batch of cookies but then realized she would need another one in order to have enough bottoms and tops for the ice cream sandwiches.

Everyone at the party loved the ice cream sandwiches.  Lily was very proud of her work.



Ava, the birthday girl, wanted everyone to play Pin the Tail on the Donkey.  She asked Lily to help her hang up the big picture of the donkey.  Ava said, "Lily, it says we have to measure 2 yards from the picture so we can have a starting line.  How long is one yard?"

"That can't be right, Ava," Lily giggled.  "Then we would have to start down the street in your neighbor's yard.  That's too far away."

Torren, one of the boys at the party, heard the conversation.  He said, " A yard is 3 feet."

Ava looked at her feet.  "You mean 3 of my feet?" she asked.

"No, I mean three feet, like 12 inches each.  You know, the size of a ruler."  Torren replied.

"We have to measure 2 yards," continued Torren,  "So that would be 6 feet."
Lily and Ava said, "Thanks for the help."

The girls asked Ava's daddy for a ruler.  He said, "I have a yardstick, will that work?"

Lily said, "We need a ruler.  If a yardstick is a ruler it should work."

Lily and Ava took the ruler over to the picture of the donkey.  They measured out six lengths of the yardstick.

Ava said, "This looks too far."

Was Ava correct?  How many lengths of the yardstick should be measured out?




3 comments:

  1. Hi, I was in Ms. Debbie's class this year and i know the answer. A yard is 12 inches.

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  2. A yard is 3 feet, or 36 inches. The directions were to measure 2 yards, which would be 2 x 3 = 6 feet. The girls measured 6 lengths, and 6 x 3 = 18 feet which is too long. Torin

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  3. Torin, you got it right. A yard is 36 inches or 3 feet~

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