Re: teaching money- suggestions?

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What helps Faith is using real money, pictures or plastic coins just don't work. I also try to let her spend money, because otherwise it has no meaning. She loves the dollar store! The 4th graders at her school have started a school store so I hope to get her working in the store next year. When she has ice cream Friday at school I put out many different coins and have her pick out 75 cents. It has to be concrete to mean anything.

ette

mom to Faith (10)DS

-------------- Original message from "ptaszekmichele" : --------------

I have a 5 1/2 year old that is starting to learns coin names and coin values at school. What tools/strategies did you use? He is still having trouble identifying the names of the coins in school. I am looking for something that will help him make the connection.Thanks,Michele

[Guest guest]

What helps Faith is using real money, pictures or plastic coins just don't work. I also try to let her spend money, because otherwise it has no meaning. She loves the dollar store! The 4th graders at her school have started a school store so I hope to get her working in the store next year. When she has ice cream Friday at school I put out many different coins and have her pick out 75 cents. It has to be concrete to mean anything.

ette

mom to Faith (10)DS

-------------- Original message from "ptaszekmichele" : --------------

I have a 5 1/2 year old that is starting to learns coin names and coin values at school. What tools/strategies did you use? He is still having trouble identifying the names of the coins in school. I am looking for something that will help him make the connection.Thanks,Michele

[Guest guest]

Hi Michele!

We made a pocket board with each coin and bill up to

$50.00. On the outside of each pocket is a picture of

the coin or bill. Each labeled with the word

" penny " , " dime " , " 1 dollar " etc.. It hangs on

Freddie's bedroom wall. It's basically a big open

piggy bank. We give him coins in his allowance too or

sometimes we find coins on the ground or change from

the store. When it gets to be to large of an amount on

the wall, we go to the bank and exchange change or

bills for one large bill. For Freddie it wasn't enough

to sit down with a tray of play or real money.

We actually started money pretty early on with Freddie

(4). We pay him an allowance for things like taking

out the garbage, bring the cans back in, feeding the

cats and vacuuming his room. With each chore he gets

one dollar. He clearly knows what a one dollar bill

and five dollar bill are and which gets ya more

" stuff " ! We also let him pay for things at the grocery

store. The staff at the store always have such

patience. The toy store has been a great place to

really work the value of money. It really hits home

there because it is soooo important to Freddie at that

store.....;-)

nna

Mommy to Freddie 6 yrs

Full Inclusion Kindy

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God will not protect you.

--- ptaszekmichele wrote:

> I have a 5 1/2 year old that is starting to learns

> coin names and coin

> values at school. What tools/strategies did you use?

> He is still

> having trouble identifying the names of the coins in

> school. I am

> looking for something that will help him make the

> connection.

>

> Thanks,

> Michele

>

>

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[Guest guest]

>

> I have a 5 1/2 year old that is starting to learns coin names and

coin

> values at school. What tools/strategies did you use? He is still

> having trouble identifying the names of the coins in school. I am

> looking for something that will help him make the connection.

>

> Thanks,

> Michele

>

Michele,

Following this note are various suggestions I've seen, but haven't

necessarily used.

I just uploaded a file called " Money Songs.doc " to the files section

(under " Education Helps " ). We used " Penny, Penny " (to the first two

lines of Twinkle Twinkle) and Dr. Jean's " Found a Penny " , but there's

a looong list of songs you can use (or even modify to meet your

needs).

I practice coin recognition and value a LOT and Theresa can finally

identify the coin and values with few errors. We use a hundreds

chart to add up the coins values, and she still needs guidance for

that.

Hope this helps,

Debbie I. (NJ)

Mom to Theresa, age 7 with DS, and , age 5

a. sorting games to be able to group coins

b. lots of practice with counting by 5's and 10's (count as you toss

or bounce balls, or play jumping games as you count by 5's/10's)

c. practical experience using coins to buy stuff -- have your child

buy stuff regularly from vending machines, cafeteria, help with pay

phones, purchase postage, etc.

d. Make a money book out of ziploc snack-size bags for pages

containing each coin type (so both sides of the coins showed

through), plus pages/bags for $1 and $5 bills.

e. Books:

26 Letters and 99 Cents by Tana Hoban;

In God We Trust: A Christian Kid's Guide to Saving by Larry Burkett

Spending and Giving This latter is an especially useful book because

it actually has little slots to put coins in to save up over $20, and

the explanations are all in rhyme so they are catchy and fun to read.

It also teaches the value of saving and giving

f. fun money workbooks and a placemat illustrating coins/money from

the local educational supply store

[Guest guest]

CONCRETE....he needs a weekly allowance of his age. So each week he gets $5.00

He should save 5%

and if you go to church tithe 10%---if you don't then give it to your local DSA.

At 5 we took 3 empty peanut butter plastic jars, wrote with shapie on the outside

$spending money

$savings

$tithe

GIVE him the money in the correct change--$0.50 for tithe---2 quarters

$0.25 for savings, 2 dimes and a nickel

the other 25 cents that he can spend, give it to him in nickels, dimes, and pennies.

THEN take him shopping. He has to look at the price on the things he wants to buy---if it's more than he has tell him how many weeks he will have to save to get it.

By the time was 9 he saved up for 6 months to buy his own X-Box 360!

(he had a birthday in between and got extra money for that that helped)

now buys all of his clothes, all of his video games, etc. I never tell him he can't have anything, I just tell him to save up and buy it himself!

THAT is the best way to learn money AND learn how to handle it too!

I keep change in my ashtray in the car. We used to play a game while driving to school---if could tell me what the coin was then he could have it...if he knew it was a penny he got to keep it, if he knew it was a nickel, he got to keep it...etc. He was always getting dimes and nickels confused...nickel is worth less than a dime, but it's bigger...didn't make sense to him!

Good luck!

, Mom to 14, DS, Southern CaliforniaTo succeed in life,you need three things:a wishbone, a backbone and a funny bone.~ Reba McIntyre

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[DownSyndromeInfoExchange] Re: teaching money- suggestions?

>> I have a 5 1/2 year old that is starting to learns coin names and coin > values at school. What tools/strategies did you use? He is still > having trouble identifying the names of the coins in school. I am > looking for something that will help him make the connection.> > Thanks,> Michele>Michele, Following this note are various suggestions I've seen, but haven't necessarily used. I just uploaded a file called "Money Songs.doc" to the files section (under "Education Helps"). We used "Penny, Penny" (to the first two lines of Twinkle Twinkle) and Dr. Jean's "Found a Penny", but there's a looong list of songs you can use (or even modify to meet your needs). I practice coin recognition and value a LOT and Theresa can finally identify the coin and values with few errors. We use a hundreds chart to add up the coins values, and she still needs guidance for that. Hope this helps,Debbie I. (NJ)Mom to Theresa, age 7 with DS, and , age 5a. sorting games to be able to group coinsb. lots of practice with counting by 5's and 10's (count as you toss or bounce balls, or play jumping games as you count by 5's/10's) c. practical experience using coins to buy stuff -- have your child buy stuff regularly from vending machines, cafeteria, help with pay phones, purchase postage, etc.d. Make a money book out of ziploc snack-size bags for pages containing each coin type (so both sides of the coins showed through), plus pages/bags for $1 and $5 bills.e. Books: 26 Letters and 99 Cents by Tana Hoban;In God We Trust: A Christian Kid's Guide to Saving by Larry BurkettSpending and Giving This latter is an especially useful book because it actually has little slots to put coins in to save up over $20, and the explanations are all in rhyme so they are catchy and fun to read. It also teaches the value of saving and giving f. fun money workbooks and a placemat illustrating coins/money from the local educational supply store

[Guest guest]

I did not read the original post on money questions and can't look it

up right now.

My son is in 3rd grade, and he is doing Touch Money. He had already

learned to count by 5s, which is CRITICAL for this program. Ignore

pennies for now...Start with nickels. It has a Touchpoint right in the

middle of the coin. Touch the middle of the nickel and say " 5 " . A

dime has 2 touchpoints at top & bottom. Count and touch, 5,10 out

loud. A quarter has 5 touchpoints. IT's working well so far. The

child can have a mixed bag of coins and use 5s to count the whole

thing.

Beth

[Guest guest]

For a visual to help our daughter get the nickel from the dime quantity, my husband took a picture of a hand and photoshopped a nickel on it. When Olivia got confused I would hold up my hand and remind her it was a nickel. We then took 2 hands and put a photo of a dime between them to help remind her it was 10 for the dime. When we are in the store and she gets confused with the nickel dime I hold up my hand for the nickel and she remembers the 5.

just a thought.

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