Presidents Day .. and money

Cleaning pennies

Sorting coins

Matching presidents with coins

Books we read and history of what president does

Here are craft we did but also did it last year always a big hit . I think we been making them for 15 years .. penny bracelet

http://abcsofjesshouse.blogspot.com/2011/02/monday-presidents-day.html

Monday Presidents Day ..

Authur for President
Grace for Presidents
Also will use The us presidents book just looking and talking about the pictures .
This year we will talk a little on who the president is what they do and what would you do but we going to spend the rest of day learning what about money .
First we make penny bracklets 4/6 penny each clear package tape
Design your own dollar /money i just made a simple bill design let them see where they go with it .
We sort coins and we pattern the money heads and tails . We also put in order large to small
Do coin rubbing lay the coin under white or any paper and let them color over them it magic president will appear.
I made my own resourse sheet but then found this great site for resourse on who on each coin and bills
http://prek-8.com/preschool/lessonPlans_money.php
http://www.kidsmatter1.blogspot.com/

I used this cute poem will need to make props for next year from over at
http://kidsmatter1.blogspot.com/2011/02/monday-meanderings-money-lessons.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+kidsmatter1+%28Kids+Matter%29

here a great site and we usally do this clean some money but we didnot set it up this year but if you like you can see how it works
http://livingmontessorinow.com/2011/02/21/montessori-inspired-activities-teaching-about-money-and-presidents/