the concept of the day: 4 quarters is the same amount of money as 1 dollar.
i acted out a few scenarios of buying flour (because i wanted a tie in to our book rosie’s walk with that quiet fox) and when the clerk told me my total was one dollar, i gave either a dollar bill or 4 quarters. thanks to my son i had a whole collection of quarters to show. next we would glue 4 “quarters” on a “dollar bill.” this was also a project to practice making small dots of glue with a glue bottle. my own kindergarten daughter thinks this is a very important school skill. these photos show how i prep many of our activities. we usually go to circle time and i explain or demonstrate something first.
to make our quarters more realistically shiny, we added glitter! the first day the glitter was on the table in a small tub, but i wished for more room. the next day we put the glitter in our “i spy” table. hee hee hee.
sparkle and shine.
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Such appropriate math fun!
hey! i’m going to start that!
thanks for the tip.
do you use regular sized glue bottles or the really small ones?
When we have gluing projects at preschool we chant, “A dot, a dot, a dot does a lot.” :)