Students were faced with the challenge to create an inviting storefront that encouraged them to think about branding and advertising, all while learning about how to use coin amounts up to $2.
Over the course of this integrated unit, students have become familiar with basic media literacy concepts, as well as regularly exploring the names and values of pennies, nickels, dimes, quarters, loonies, and toonies. We have spent time adding, subtracting, and comparing these values as well as combining coins to make larger amounts.Please encourage your child to continue practicing with coin values at home. Here are some ways you can encourage your child to use coins and have fun with it:
- Ask your child to help you make the right change when shopping
- Perform pretend 'transactions' at home for things in the cupboard
- Add up the cost of certain groceries on the receipt (like all the fruit or all the veggies)
- Think of all the combinations of coins that could be used to make your age (eg. if you are 42 years old, how many different combinations of coins could be used to make 42 cents?)
Our Community Market will be taking place this Wednesday afternoon and students from other classrooms will be visiting to go shopping!
