20 October 2012

Money Monsters

Money...money...money....

We started money last week, and I am super excited about teaching it this year.  I got a Smart Board at the very end of last year, and now I don't know how I ever taught without it.  It makes everything we do super interactive, I absolutely love it! Yay, now I can drag and drop coins on the Smart Board rather than hunting for the coins in my Ziploc baggy of overhead coins.

I decided to create a simple monster themed coin page to spice up my money unit.  The Money Monster strip is just a fun reference strip that I'm going to have my class add to their math journal.  There is also a page for students to practice adding collections of coins.  I plan to use the coin die on my Smart Board to randomly choose coins.  They will write the values of the coins that get rolled in each circle.  I also plan to use it as a station activity.  They have wooden cubes at the craft store that are perfect for making teacher made money dice. 

You can get the FREEBIE by clicking on the picture below.
 


2 comments:

  1. I love this idea. Where is the money dice in the smart board gallery? I can only find coins that flip. Thanks for sharing!

    Jenny
    Happy Literacy!

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  2. I went back and looked for it too and couldn't find it in the gallery. I actually purchased a great Calendar Math file on Teachers Pay Teachers from Liv to Teach. Included in the file was a money die that rolls random coins. I will use it for my Monster Math pg. You can check it out here: http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Calendar-Math-for-SmartBoard-daily-review-of-16-common-core-skills. Hope this helps!

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