Charlotte helps to teach about measuring

Charlotte is odd for a chinchilla. She spends a good part of the day during our school day up. She gets let out of her cage when I get to school. Charlotte evades capture until just before lunch. Most of that time she uses to find a nice place to curl up and take a chinchilla nap.

The other morning though she was causing more problems that normal and got sent to jail early. She was not happy! She was awake and watching over my lesson on measurement. Charlotte sat hunched down in front of her hut pouting. Chinchilla are excellent at pouting!

I referred back to her as we discussed how to estimate. We decided that she was about 3 inches tall while she was hunched down.

Immediately she sat up to a half crouch. We figured that she did not like our estimate and wanted to be taller! So we now estimated her height at about 4 inches.

Nope! Not good enough for Charlotte! She stretched up tall as she could and put her little nose in the air. Chuckling at her we said she was probably around 8 in tall now.

Still that was not good enough for her! Charlotte jumped up to the next level of her cage. We informed her that was cheating and we would not estimate how tall she was anymore!

It did lead to a good discussion about how the position of what you are measuring can change how tall they are.