How Big is a Foot?

We began learning about non-standard units of measure this week. We read, "How Big is a Foot? by Rolf Myller.  It's about a King who decides to have a bed made for the Queen. He uses his feet to measure the Queen, and gives the measurements to the Royal carpenter. The apprentice carpenter is given the measurements and told to make the bed, but his feet were a bit smaller than the King's...

The students partnered up to see how many of 'their' feet long or tall, different objects in our classroom were.