This is an activity based on the picture book Twice My Size.
This book may no longer be available for purchase.
Twice My Size by Adrian Mitchell
This book may no longer be available for purchase.
Twice makes it bigger!
This activity is based on the picture book: Twice My Size
Author: Adrian Mitchell
Illustrator: Daniel Puddles
Publisher: Igloo (2007); Bloomsbury (1998)
ISBN: 0-7475-4188-4
Summary:
A ladybird begins this story about a series of friends, each one of whom is twice the size of the friend before. The pattern continues until we get to the sun. She states she is a million times bigger than everyone.
Lesson Sequence:
After reading, draw a picture of a ladybird that is the same length and height, about the dimensions of the face of a unifix cube. The ladybird will be your unit.
Explain how the class is going to make the characters of the story. But you need to know how big each character is. Use a version of the table below (depending on how big you want to go) to fill in the doubling pattern of measurements. The measurements can be modeled with unifix blocks called “ladybirds”. “Rulers” can be made out of connected unifix blocks, eg this ruler is 10 ladybirds, or 100 ladybirds.
For example, to draw the butterfly, you need a square piece of paper 2 ladybirds long and 2 ladybirds high. Ask students to measure the paper they need to create their characters. Depending on your class you may need to have precut squares or students can be assigned different characters. The large ones can be numeracy lessons in themselves as the whole class creates a piece of paper or another area to draw to the big ones.
Animal | Ladybird Units (To create square pieces of paper: length x width) |
Ladybird | 1 |
Butterfly | 2 |
Bird | 4 |
Cat | 8 |
Dog | 16 |
Boy | 32 |
Babysitter/Big sister | 64 |
Horse | 128 |
Elephant | 256 |
Whale | 512 |
Sun | !!!! |
The elephant and the whale can be drawn on the court in chalk and photographed for the display or book you make. (A senior class can be asked to calculate the size a piece of paper would have to be to draw a picture of the sun.)
Printed from https://nzmaths.co.nz/resource/twice-my-size at 9:52am on the 26th April 2024