Focused Learning

Organiser: Number, money and measurement - Money

Learning outcome: I am developing my awareness of how money is used and can recognise and use a range of coins.

(MNU-0-09a)

Numeracy and mathematics area / Sand / Water
  • Sorting coins activities, using different criteria
  • Matching coins activities
  • Display of different coins, notes, bank cards, piggy bank, etc.
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  • Hide coins in the sand tray then use sieve to find them, then talk about the properties of the coins and recognise the amount they represent.
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Construction area / Technology / Craft area
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  • Use appropriate software to support learning and teaching of Money
  • Smart Board
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  • Rubbings of different coins, using colours to match the coins, e.g.: silver for 10p, bronze for 2p.
  • Make a snake picture using pennies and play-dough.

Book corner / Music / Malleable materials table
  • Information books
  • Shopping stories: “The shopping basket”
  • Display with vocabulary related to money
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  • “Five currant buns in the baker shop” display with props.
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  • Making “Five currant buns” with play-dough.
  • Printing coins with play-dough or plastecine
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Writing/drawing table / House corner / Role play area
  • Have several purses with different amounts of pennies. Each child has to take the pennies out, count them and decide how to show this number in a label ( writing the number, tally,etc)
  • Provide material for children to make labels, price tags, etc. for role play.
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  • Add purses, money, bank cards, materials to make a shopping list, etc.
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  • Create another role play context such as: a shop, a Restaurant, a Post office, etc.
  • Add: Add till, money, price tags, paper pens, hand bags, purses, order forms, tickets, receipts, etc.

Snack/Baking area / Outside/Gym / Table top games
  • Paying for snack, snack items to match coins, e.g. 2p, 5p, 10p, etc.
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  • Create a market stall, ice-cream van, a garden centre, etc.
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  • Table top shopping game
  • Currant buns game with dice and money
  • Matching lotto game, coin boxes.

Small group work
  • Discussion; how we use money in everyday lives. Talk about how we can save money (piggy bank, a safe, banks, etc.)
  • Real life experiences: Shopping for snack, visit a bank, going on the bus,etc.
  • Feely bag to recognise the physical differences of coins followed by discussion

Key Vocabulary: buy, cost, sell, change, spend, spent, amount, value, same, not the same, coin, note, card, price, more, less, altogether, sale, special offer, how much, cheaper, dearer, between, left, pound, pence, penny, pennies, price, tags, bargain, purse, wallet, enough, not enough.

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