We are starting to learn about money, and a distinction between the different coins and number valures. And, in honor of President's Day, we also talked about some of the most famous President's represented on our coins, George Washington and Abraham Lincoln. We made these cute finger puppets with the penny and the quarter.
Right now I just want to familiarize the kids with the different looks of each coin, and how many common coins there are (4). We practiced sorting pennies, nickels, dimes, and quarters at this center.
We also made some patterns with these coin pattern mats from Lakeshore. This too is a great exercise for the kids to see the differences between each coin. Once they know the four coins by sight pretty well, they will easily be able to start memorizing the values of each coin.
We touched upon the lives of George Washington and Abe Lincoln, and one story we told was that of George Washington and the apple tree. We talked about what it means to be honest, and practiced our math skills with these number mat trees and apple manipulatives.
For a writing center, we did a word search this week. We looked for words such as flag and Eagle.
For a fine motor activity, we practiced our lacing skills. We talked about how the President of the United States wears lots of suits, and used our shape recognition skills to add buttons to our different dress shirt lacing mats.
We had some enlarged coins and dollar bill magnetic money that the kids sorted and played with. They had fun sorting and really examining what and who is on each currency.
In our block center, we had the Lincoln logs out. We read a book about Abraham Lincoln and how he lived in a log cabin when he was a boy. We read about how because he didn't have much money, he taught himself by reading lots of books. We built our own log cabins and used great teamwork.
We recite the Pledge of Allegiance each day in class. We also talk about how there are 50 stars on the flag that represent the 50 states in the US. We had this talking map out this week that the kids could visit. They could push on each state to hear the state name and a fact about it. They had a lot of fun finding our home state of Utah.
Spelling words of the week: Map and Log
And, we also had fun learning some new things about our star of the week this week!
Our star Zachary!!
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