Count the Room

The first and second grade students are working on counting money.  We have been practicing and practicing to count accurately.  A fun way that we practice counting money was an activity called "Count the Room."  The students had to hunt around the room to find different cards with money pictures.  Once they found a card, they had to count the amount of money and write the sum on their recording sheet.  It was a fun way to practice counting money and a great method to see how everyone was progressing.

Here we see Miss Gatlin using touchpoints to count a set of money.

Our friend Tom found a card to count as well!

Marissa and Em practiced some team work in counting this card!  Good job girls!

This is what our recording sheets looked like.

An example of our counting cards.  See those dots on the dimes?  Those are actually touchpoints!  All of our silver coins have touchpoints to help us count accurately.  We count by fives when we use touchpoints on coins.  Pennies do not have touchpoints because we count them by ones.