Money Lessons. Reflections, Week 15

Money is inescapable in life as we know it, and even for a young child, unless she is being held hostage in a basement (which really isn’t very funny because it does happen – very freaky, and heart-breaking), the message that money is used in exchange for things that we need and want is displayed every time she goes to the store and sees it happen. In the Moving Beyond The Page curriculum, Unit 6 used 100 pennies as a counting tool, so money has worked it’s way into our school as well.  But I am glad of this, because, as I said, it is inescapable.  It happens that money lessons have also taken the forefront in real-life lessons this week as well.

As I wrote about in Week 12 Reflections, we have been using pennies to practice counting, adding, and counting by 10’s in particular.  When I broke out…