Friday, June 21, 2013

Simple Tool to Teach Your Kids Money Value

Here is a little flipchart that I made a little while back, to teach my little boy about the value of money, and he LOVED it!!!  It was super easy to make, except for cutting out ONE HUNDRED paper pennies, but it was worth it!  I printed the paper money from some online source I googled, and made this with cardstock so it would last. I also put contact paper over it. I LOVE contact paper and put it on everything!!!  I could just see all the money falling off or getting pulled off otherwise!

Anyway, after we made this, I got the biggest treat a homeschool mom can get: a compliment from her student!  Joshua thanked me for teaching him about money and making the flipchart with him, and it totally seemed to make something CLICK with him about money value, even though he “knew” the values in a superficial way before. THEN, he told me math is his *favorite* school subject!  This was so awesome to me, because he was NOT enjoying it the previous fall, and I had been working hard on this area, so I was so encouraged that something was working!
I adapted the idea for this from Dinah Zike’s Big Book of Books, which is an awesome resource!!!  I highly recommend it!  I have also seen this type of “layer book” or “layer look book” described on some online sites, if you google it. :)



Under the dollar flap, I wrote what a dollar is in every way I could think of. :)  The quarter row is divided into four parts, as a visual aid to see that four quarters equal a dollar, and under the flaps, I wrote what a quarter is in every way I could think of, including 1/4 of a dollar. I didn’t spend a lot of time on this with Joshua, but I thought it would be a good introduction to fractions, so I briefly explained it, and he seemed to get it! Ditto under the dimes section, and the nickels and pennies too.  Then on the back page, I wrote out a summary of all the values.  Joshua told me he wanted to take it to bed with him and review it every day, LOL! 

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