Finishing Up Money {freebie} and TpT Sale

We have been working on money in my intervention groups the past 3 weeks and we wrapped up the week with our "Time To Go Shopping" Activity from my Cha Ching unit that I blogged about last week. We also did a quick assessment to see what they retained from our 3 weeks of reviewing money.

The kids had a blast coloring and cutting out the pictures. After cutting and gluing, they had to choose a price for each picture then draw it with money. Their most favorite part was getting to trace with a sharpie! What is it with sharpies? The smell? The fact that they don't get to use them? Who knows!

Since I only see my groups for 30 minutes at a time, we did this activity on Tuesday and Wednesday and then today, I assessed their knowledge of identifying coins and counting coins. Now in Texas we use the TEKS (Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills), 1st grade has to be able to count groups of LIKE coins, and in 2nd they have to be able to count groups of MIXED coins up to a $1.00.

Since my intervention group is 2nd, we have be working on mixed coins. Here are the assessments I used.

The identifying coins page is from my "Look What I Can Do" 1st grade assessment packet. The mixed coins is not included in that packet since 1st only assessments counting LIKE coins. Since most of my followers teach 1st grade, the MIXED coins page may not be useful to you, so I am including a freebie below that includes counting LIKE coins! Click the picture below to get the identifying coins, counting like coins, and counting mixed coins assessment pages. Enjoy! If you like this, I promise you'll LOVE the rest of my assessment packet!

Also, don't forget the HUGE 3 million strong SALE that is going on on TpT right now! I know I'm stocking up my cart and pray to God my husband doesn't see the bill ;) Click the picture below to go straight to my store!

Hairy Money {and a freebie}

This week my intervention groups have been reviewing money. If you don't know, this year, I am the Title 1 tutor for 2nd grade and pull groups to work on reading and math. I do miss being in the classroom, but I also am enjoying the change!

This week we are visiting money and my student are just loving my "Cha Ching" money unit!

We started off the week with working on identifying coins and how much they are worth. We worked on this fun little worksheet to show what we knew about coins.

Now counting groups of like coins is easy. Just counting by 1's, 5's, and 10's for pennies, nickels, and dimes, but for quarters and mixed groups of coins, it can get hard. So I teach my students a fun little trick called "Hairy Money". Believe me, it's a life saver when those babies struggle with mixed coins and having to switch between counting by 1's, 5's, and 10's.

After learning about "Hairy Money" we did a little practice with counting mixed coins. As you can see, Hairy Money is in full practice!

We will continue working on identifying and counting coins using my "Counting Coins" book. It's always a hit with my kids!

Once I feel that my kiddos have a good grasp on identifying coins and counting them, we will move onto word problems that deal with money. We will work through our "Super Hero Word Problems" book.

You may notice that the word problems don't go in order. I did that on purpose so the students have to pay attention as they go :) I know, I know. Sneaky sneaky!

Then my favorite activity is "Time to Go Shopping!" My students will take these pictures and decide how much each item will cost. Then they will cut it out and glue it on a piece of construction paper and draw one way to make that amount with coins. I promise to post pictures once we do this project! It's always a blast! 

Click on the picture to get your own copy of "Time to Go Shopping!" to use with your kids!

Hope you are having a good week and to make things fun, the first person to comment with their email will get this unit for FREE! :)

Five for Friday

I am so sorry for being so absent from my blog lately! I will explain below in my Five for Friday. Enjoy!

#1 Here is a fun activity I've been working on that I plan on using with my kiddos once Thanksgiving is here. My Designer Turkey helps students practice inferencing by reading clues from kids about what kind of turkey they want for Thanksgiving. I know my kids are just going to love it! I plan on making one for Christmas too! Be on the look out!

#2 Here is another one product I have recently posted. My kids love fractions and you have to do some fun activities and they LOVED this one!! Everyone loves bubble gum right?

 #3 One of my favorite math topics to teach is money, so this product was born! I work with the low kids as the title 1 teacher at my school so we spend alot of time reviewing things they didn't catch onto and money is one of them! I work solely with 2nd graders and some of these still don't know the names of coins. Well we will be changing that ASAP!

#4 Last year I took on another teaching job as a cotillion teacher. I teach 2 Sundays a month. On each given Sunday I teach 4 1 1/2 hour classes of about 60-80 students. PHEW! Believe me, I'm exhausted by the end of the day. If you haven't heard of cotillion, it's very popular in the deep south and also up north. It's a class to help teach students in middle school proper etiquette and proper dance. The first class is always scary for them, but this month we are on our 2nd class of the season and the kids are realizing how much fun it is! Here they are practicing their dancing. Don't worry, there's another teacher to teach dance. No way could I do that!

#5 Lots of things are going on in my family lately. Check out my personal blog, Man and Wife and Two Fur Babies for more details. We are in the middle of an IVF cycle. Any prayers would be greatly appreciated! Hoping I will be posting some happy news soon!

Make sure you go and check out all of the Five for Fridays on Doodle Bug Teaching!