Achieving Financial Literacy through Early Math Skills
Help me give my students play money, items for them to purchase in a classroom store, and early math skills resources including counters, number cards, number practice books, and pocket charts for them to demonstrate their learning!
I teach a class of 28 amazing kindergartners who are eager to learn and deserve endless resources, experiences, and opportunities. They come from different backgrounds, have a wealth of experiences, and have a lot to contribute to our diverse learning community. They are eager for knowledge and engaging opportunities to learn.
I have a very diverse population at my school and in my classroom, with at least 50% learning English as their second language, and I teach at the most diverse school in the nation!
The children delight in activities that engage their minds and bodies, and they look forward to what each day of the exciting kindergarten world brings them! It is my job to inspire and motivate them in a variety of ways in which I reach the whole child.
My Project
Research shows children learn through play! The gems, coins, and medals would be part of a classroom store I hope to create. My students will use play money and our new cash register to pay for their purchases, while the cashier counts out the correct amount of cash to return to kindergarten customers! What better way to learn about spending money wisely than to play/act it out as if it was for real? The fun, motivating store will help the concepts of financial literacy stick!
To help my students develop the skills needed to count, add, and subtract money, I would use math games and resources such as the Counting Keys Set, number identification cards, magnetic numbers, counters, peg boards, bingo chips, counting dough mats, number practice books, counting links, and a counting chart (to 200) to teach them how to recognize numbers, understand the value of numbers, and to count out quantities to demonstrate their understanding of number value, and thus the value of money.
These skills will then tranfer to their financial literacy skills in the pretend store! It is critical for kindergarteners to learn early math skills before the introduction to money. Once the pre-knowledge is built, I will model saving, adding, and subtracting money on the pocket charts. Students will also model their understanding of basic math and money skills and knowledge!
I hope to instill the importance of financial responsibility at a young age in order to prepare our future generation for our growing economy. These items are going to provide them opportunities to engage in learning while they pretend. Children learn best by playing!
AA558 - Printing Numbers Practice Book - Each
• Lakeshore Learning Materials
$6.99
8
$55.92
Stacking Peg Board Set Toy | JUMBO PACK | Montessori Occupational Therapy Early Learning For Fine Motor Skills, Ideal for Toddlers and Preschooler, Includes 60 Plastic Pegs & 3 Board | With Storage Ba
• Amazon Business
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