We spent some time today learning about quarters and reviewing coins in general. It was fun! We started with "cross crawls"--a way of getting our bodies involved in our learning. Ask your child to teach you about cross crawls and to count by 25s while doing so! :-) I will try to remember to take a quick video of us doing this tomorrow so you can see/hear what it's all about! Counting by 25s obviously helps when counting quarters, which is why we tried MANY activities to help make this stick in our heads--cross crawls, chanting "25-50-75-One Dollar!", playing a game called "Pop" using counts by 25, and singing our coin songs. We also used the Smartboard to practice counting coin combinations with a mix of quarters, dimes, nickels, and pennies. It was great to hear students explain their thinking on how they count coins. It's very interesting how different their approaches can be and they still come up with the correct answer. We learn so much by listening to others' ideas!
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