To get your child excited about kindergarten: With both of my kids, we made registration day a big day! We took pictures, talked it up and made it fun. Once we signed up, we talked about how the school, our base school, was their school. We played on the playground.
The use of a clinometer to measure tree height. A clinometer is a fairly simple instrument which is used to measure the angle of a slope. By using the principles of trigonometry, the height of tall objects can be calculated from the angles measured. A clinometer can easily be made from a large protractor. A narrow piece of wood should be glued to the base of the protractor to act as a sighting line. A weighted plumb line is then fastened to the mid point of the base line of the protractor.
Pick a spot to measure your object (I measured a telephone pole). You should be far enough away from your object that you can see the top of it, and you need to be on level ground with the base of the object. I like to set something down by my feet once I've picked my spot, so that I can easily come back to it.n this Instructable, I'll show you how to use a clinometer to measure the height of a tall object (for help constructing your own clinometer from basic classroom materials, click here).