Race To A Dollar! {Counting Coins Freebie!}

I saw a coin counting idea in a really old issue of the Mailbox Magazine and knew that I wanted to create a similar game for my kiddos! I'm sharing it with you today FOR FREE! Woohoo!!

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Back to counting coins...

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The game involves identifying and adding coins to one dollar and can be supported with all kinds of manipulatives!! You could use this game in a math station, for individual practice (adapted), or as a bit of partner fun!

To Play:

Students will use a pencil and paperclip to create the spinner. Taking turns, students will spin the paperclip and add the new coins to their current total. The goal is to be the first player to make one dollar! Watch out, though--if a little lands on the "Start Over" space, they must begin back at $0.00. Bummer!!

Here is what you'll need:

Paperclip 

Pencil

Blank Paper 

The blank paper is to be used as a recording sheet. To save paper and the environment (hey Earth day!), kids could use a white board and dry erase marker, or even a dry erase marker and their desk!

(If you choose to go the desk+marker route, you will be a superstar.)

Here are optional materials that would be really great/beneficial/supportive/etc to use:

Coins--play or real, to collect as they land on various amounts

Hundreds board--if addition is a struggle, they could color in the value of collected coins

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I'd love to know what you and your kiddos think. 

Really really.

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I hope that you have a wonderful weekend! Happy Friday, teacher friends!!

Plastic Easter Eggs--Station Style.

Here are my two favorite ways to use plastic Easter eggs in the classroom!

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I used both ideas with my firsties last year and they were a HUGE hit!!

The original idea came from {here} + {here}, but I adapted a bit and created my own recording sheets.

You can find those {HERE}!

 

Quick Teacher Tip:

It was REALLY helpful to teach my kiddos to snap the egg all the way closed!

(or else you'll end up with a bucket full of random letters :))

First up, ELAR--spelling, specifically.

This would be a great "word work" literacy station!

Use letter tiles or Banagrams squares to scramble up words that they students are working on/familiar with (spelling words?).

They take one egg out at a time and try to unscramble the word!

Make sure you number each egg and tell your kiddos to return all letters before opening a new egg.

I wish so badly that I had pictures with my kiddos!!! 

Also, I'd definitely put these in a different basket for my littles--but it's spring break and I'm at home. :)

Mathematics--Money!

This is really similar to the activity above, only with money instead of words.

Fill a set of plastic eggs with some fake coins, real coins, or printed coins.

The students will choose one egg at a time and find the total value of the egg.

Again, have your kiddos return the money to the egg before opening a new one!

I used stickers to label each Easter egg and my firsties matched the number on the egg to the number on their recording sheet. This helped them keep the stations organized and it helped me check their work!

Win win!!

So there you have it. Plastic Easter eggs--station style. 

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The good news is that the plastic eggs are all over the place (Dollar Tree, Walmart, Target) and they're cheap cheap cheap! I saved my numbered eggs to use again and again! Hooray!

Have a lovely St. Patty's Day, teacher friends!