I don't know why, but I LOVE teaching concepts when there's a great little mnemonic device to go with it. This week we've been studying metric conversions, so I turned to my good friend, "King Henry" to lend us a hand. I really liked the staircase idea I did for the math journals last year (you can read more about how I teach metric conversions HERE and see our journal entry for last year HERE), so I really had to think to come up with a different idea for our journals this year. And then…