Keepin' It Simple Money Review

I am going to keep this post short.  I have been sick in bed for the last 2 weeks.  I missed my entire Spring Break (BOO HOO) and then had to miss a week of work after Spring Break because I still hadn't recovered.  I can't remember the last time I've been this under the weather.   I'm going to have to blame it on Spring.  We have these beautiful oak trees in front of our home, but they have been dropping pollen for weeks and my asthma is just out of control on top of a sinus infection and pneumonia!  I got out of bed for the first time today and... jumped right on my computer.  I decided to put some finishing touches on a product I have gotten a lot of use out of already this year and really wanted to share with my teacher friends.

It doesn't have cute borders and graphics, but it does the trick for reviewing computation and coin collections.  I decided to keep these simplistic and leave off all the bells and whistles.  They have 10 problems per page.  The top five are computation problems with regrouping and the bottom 5 problems are coin collections.  There are a total of 20 pages included in the resource.  The half dollar is included on many of the pages.  They do NOT go over a dollar with the exception of about 4 problems.  The pages that contain these problems have a star in the upper right corner.

I do plan to add several more pages that do go over a dollar in the future.  Here is an example of one of the pages:

       Here is a breakdown of the types of computation problems included in the resource.
      * 5 pages have 2 Digit Addition w/Regrouping
      * 5 pages have 2 Digit Subtraction w/Regrouping
      * 5 pages have 2 Digit Addition and Subtraction w/Regrouping
      * 2 pages have 2 Digit Subtraction w/Reg. and 3 Digit Addition w/Reg.
      * 3 pages have 3 Digit Addition and Subtraction w/Regrouping

 Feel free to check it out in my store.  The link is HERE.

 

A little of this and that...

What a busy week!!!  We started the week with Earth Day and that was a lot of fun.  We created an Earth Day anchor chart together to get those schemas activated.

We also worked a little with poetry.  They searched for the  rhyming words and then drew their mental images.  I'm sorry I didn't share the poem page.  I found the poem on-line and I'm not sure who originally wrote it. I just typed it up and put on a REALLY cute border.  I absolutely love Krista Wallden's new borders!!!

We also wrote letters to the tooth fairy this week.  Oh my gosh, I love reading their writing.  They are way too cute!!!
This template is out of my Writing Piece of the Month resource.  We normally do it at the beginning of the year when we do our letter writing unit.  I don't know what happened, but better late than never.

I also created some fun money posters.  It had been on my to-do list since the beginning of the year.  I'm just now getting some of those projects done.  Better late than never! I'm thinking that should be my new motto.

As always, the first 3 people to comment will get the money posters for FREE.  Don't forget to leave your e-mail.   Have a great weekend!
 

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.