Money Center Freebie

Getting kids to recognize coins (both heads and tails) can sometimes be difficult. Here is a center I made that is free to you just because you found my blog and as a thank you.

This center can be used 2 different ways (I included student directions for either way you decided to play it).
1). Play with a parnter as a memory game matching the coin image with it's value.
2). Play it independently by matching the cards.

I did make this black and white. If you are a teacher in a classroom, I would suggest running one set on red paper, then run another set on yellow paper, one set on green paper, etc. That way if they do it independently or you need 2 sets, the pieces don't get mixed up and then they get confused. :) I loved having different sets on different colors! Time saver!!!!

Money Matching   

Click on this link and it will take you to "Dropbox" where you can download it for free.

FYI- Clipart and frames were by My Cute Graphics. I stumbled across her website and she has tons of cute FREE clipart for teachers to use. I'm all about sharing information. If you like my stuff please "pin" it on Pinterest or share my blog address. Thanks!

Letter Q - Quarters

Letter Q- Quarters

This week I pulled out the Letter Q (Quarters Thematic Unit). We have had a bunch going on so it has been about a week since we have done "mommy preschool". They were so excited...or maybe it was because we were talking about money. Plus quarters is more fun than quilt or queen.

Quarters Thematic Unit - Letter Q

I began the unit talking about quarters, showing the different ones, blah, blah, blah. All that introductory stuff.
My 5 year old looked at my stack of papers and pulled out the letter Q and ? sheet you see below. He wanted to do those. I told them that was a special "after nap" art project. So while little one slept, I taught him about question marks. He did knew that they were "mystery marks". That was thanks again to some tv show. So who said tv was bad??

So after 3 yr old woke up and then a quick dip in the pool (hey, it was already 90 degrees here) it was art project time. I got out the watercolor paint and Q-tips (see letter Q tied in). The youngest got to q-tip paint the letter Q and the older got the "Q"uestion Mark. Notice their two different ways of painting.

They LOVED it!! I guess I am a bad mommy because they acted like they had never seen paint before. Ok, so maybe it has been so long ago, that their little brains just don't remember it. They did those pages. Then they asked for more. So I printed the quarter coloring pages out from the unit. This kept them busy as I began dinner. Then they came in begging for more. Since, I was low on ink and didn't want to mess with changing an ink cartridge, they got pages out of a coloring book and I got to finish making dinner in peace.