Children love money. They love pretend money. The love spending money. They often love going shopping, and spending money. My children could sit for hours playing with my wallet, organizing the credit cards, IDs, and money. I think part of this fascination is that money is fundamentally a grown-up possession, and a grown-up activity. They […]
This game is a nice way to continue supporting children as they learn to distinguish between the different kinds of coins we use everyday. Using the mouse, children sort the coins into jars. Each jar has a picture of the coin (a quarter, nickel, dime, or penny) on the front. This visual clue is important, […]
In addition to providing children with pretend American money to play with, wouldn’t it be cool if you also had money from other countries for children to explore? I like to think about all of the interesting ways we can support each family’s background (language, artifacts, food, festivals) why not currency? I only found one […]
It might be fun to get creative on the computer and create your own classroom money complete with children’s pictures in the middle and a picture of your classroom on the other side. I would definitely laminate the bills as they will not last the morning if you don’t. Imagine how children will take an […]
This Saturday, nerds around the globe will rejoice as we celebrate what can only be called a once-in-a-lifetime event, “Pi Day of the Century.” March 14th, or 3.14 is always called Pi Day. Over the past couple of years, I have written about Pi Day more than a couple of times, but this year, […]
I know that I keep writing about various types of magnetic manipulatives and you would need an entire wall in your classroom to accommodate them all, but I really like this set, and thought you might too.Again, I wouldn’t expect preschool aged children to use this set to create relationships like the ones above, but it […]
This month is all about money. Money is a pretty interesting concept for young children. It is one of those items that they see every day and they hear about all of the time, but they are not really allowed to have any or touch. When Noah was about 4 he told us that he […]
This month I am going to explore Money as a theme on Thursdays, so I also thought it would be a good idea to introduce money manipulatives on Mondays (that is a mouthful!) There are all sorts of sets of money out there- but the small coins present a problems for programs with children under […]
There is something fascinating about snowflakes. I still don’t really believe that each one is different from all others. Really? All of the billions and billions of snowflakes out there and no two are the same? Even the youngest children can make snowflakes out of white paper and a pair of scissors. It is a […]