Maths, Reading & Visualisation

In reading we have been working on our comprehension strategies.  Last week we focused on visualisation - they way we can create mental images when we read to deepen our understanding of the text.  We read a short passage that explained how to measure a very tall object without having to climb it and we visualised how we would do this.
Yesterday we went out and put this knowledge into practice. We first stood at the bottom of the pole and then we held our arm out with a pencil vertically out at arm's height then slowly walked back until the pencil looked the same size as the pole. Then we had to tilt the pencil horizontally. Next you put the end of the pencil on the pole and your friend has to slowly move across so that they are on the end of the pencil then you measure how far away they are from the pole and that is around about how tall the pole is.