We are reading the book "Holes"

In this story, we read about digging holes that were 5 feet wide, 5 feet long and 5 feet deep.  We wondered how big that was and how long it might take to dig them.

We used our chrome books to convert 5 feet into metres. We learned that 5 feet equals 1.524 metres. 

We used this information to get a better idea of what size this hole would be. We used a metre long ruler to measure it out. Ms Corbett showed us how to measure 524mm.

Then we wanted to know how deep 5 feet was. We drew lines on the whiteboard to show our estimates. When we used a 1 metre ruler to measure 5 feet (1.524 metres), all of our estimates were very close.

We wondered how long it would take to dig a hole 5 feet deep. We timed ourselves for 10 minutes and then measured how deep we had dug in 10 minutes.  

We dug 1.52 metres in 10 minutes.  In Maths, we used this information to calculate how long it would take to dig a hole that was 5 feet deep.  We worked in groups to share our ideas about how we could figure this out.  We found this problem hard to solve but we kept on trying.  With everybody's help, we were able to calculate that it would take 100 minutes to dig a 5 foot hole. That is the same as 1 hour and 40 minutes.