Money Math

Short post for today as we've been repeating the same activities all week. K has been very Math focused this week and we have spent much of our time counting and adding and beginning subtraction. We've been playing Monopoly Junior before bed, and K has easily taken on the banker role; adding together the bills and making change for The Daddy and I. 

I put together a money game to help K begin to learn how money works (5 pennies = 1 nickle, 2 nickles = 1 dime, 2 dimes + 1 nickle = 1 quarter, 4 quarters = $1) We took turns rolling a pair of dice, adding the numbers together and taking the appropriate amount in change (ex. 6 + 5 = 11 = 1 dime + 1 penny) we exchanged coins as needed (ex. 5 pennies were exchanged for 1 nickle) and kept track of the total amount of coins we had collected. The goal being to make it to $1.00. K and I played a couple times together helping each other add and exchange coins. 

(When he realized he had rolled enough to make $1.00)

K and The Daddy played together before bed while I was putting T and Ky to bed. K took on a banker role and added The Daddy's dice rolls, counted out and exchanged his coins as well as his own. (And mine! K set a spot for me so I could join in when the girls were sleeping.)

We also worked on counting past 109 (K likes to count to 1 million by counting 108, 109, 1000, then from 1008, 1009, 1 million!) I printed out a few Hundreds Charts and made them out to 500. I put them up onto the fridge and let K check them out. We counted to 200 together and he was able to pick up on the pattern.

 (5 Hundreds Charts)

 'Til Next week!

Kataky's Mama