Today we took another look at American coins. While I have discussed with many of you how this skill may not seem important to non-American children, and children living abroad, the skills coins teach are essential. Students use coins to move from counting between 10s, 5s, and 1s, and also understand the fraction of a quarter of 100. In our first grade class, we don't talk about the importance of the people and places on the coins, but rather on their value.
After 'buying' some objects, trading coins, and showing different amounts of money using coins, we returned to work on building mathematical fluency by recalling single digit addition and subtraction facts. The class was broken up into small groups, and played games where they were required to quickly recall facts. After break, we took our edited copies of our 'What If Everybody Did That?' (a book on good citizenship at school, home and in our communities) pages and typed them up in the computer lab. Once we were finished, we illustrated our pages. They will be bound together into a class book, that you child may sign out to take home to you beginning next week.
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