We Saw it Through 'Till the End

This month's math unit focuses on counting, adding and measuring. When the class gets hold of measuring equipment there is a stir of excitement.
One person measures a pencil, then the next a chair, the next a classmate until five or six peers are working together to measure the length of the classroom.
The following day Sawyer proposes the longest distance of all..."How long is it between our classroom to Mr. McKie's?!?!" The class as a whole worked together to connect our one inch unifix cubes into a train reaching the total length of the kindergarten wing. But that was the easy part.
Once the measuring tool was assembled it was time to count. We thought about counting by thousands, then decided it would take too long to count out another thousand by ones. We counted by ten's all the way up to 2060! We now know that the kindergarten hallway is 2060 unifix cubes long.

HOMEWORK CHALLENGE: How can we tell others how long the hallway is using terms everyone understands?