Although we typically think of measuring things by pulling out a ruler, we can teach kindergarten and preschoolers the concept of measurement with items like blocks, paperclips, or crayons. For example, measure the length of a table using blocks. Lay the blocks end-to-end alongside the table ...
(= 1 if the classroom was extremely or reasonably clean) and binary indicators of classroom infrastructure including whether it had a chalk and blackboard, desk and chair for the teacher, desks and chairs for all the students, textbooks, exercise books and stationary for 80% or more of the ...
4 Representation of the density of Ubisense location estimates for the two children. The key for the classroom activity areas is as follows: 1 = Circle/Large Blocks; 2 = Art; 3 = Books; 4 = Daily Living; 5 = Pre- Academic; 6 = Puzzles; 7 = Music; 8 = Pretend Play; 9 = ...
He was disappointed, as the kids have been playing “library” in their bedroom after school – and he was anxious to organize his books! Once he got started, though, he had so much fun – and even asked for more pages like this. To do the activity, I got out our container of ...
Based on the PISA study (Mang, Ustjanzew, Lesske, Schiepe-Tiska, & Reiss, 2019), the number of books at home (1 item) was used as a proxy for SES. Answer options ranged from 1 (none or very few) to 6 (enough to fill a massive shelf [more than 500 books]) and were ...