The Purse by Kathy Caple was a cute book about a little girl letting herself be influenced by her older sister to by a purse. She is a determined little girl who knows what she wants and what she wants is the jingle of her coins in a bandaid box. Bear and I acted out the story with the coins in her cash register. It was a lot of fun.
The Penny Pot by Stuart L. Murphy was maybe not the most interesting story, but it lent itself well to matching coins.
Then we had to sort the coins back into the cash register.
Bunny Money by Rosemary Wells was my personal favorite. Max and Ruby are too funny. We printed the bunny money from Rosemary Wells' website. Putting the money together was good practice in cutting and gluing for Bear
I folded some red cardstock to make Bear wallet like in the story. I glued the edges shut and added a tiny velcro circle so that the wallet would stay shut when folded. Then we went "shopping."
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I love this post! I have the Penny Pot too but haven't read it to JC yet. There's several other money books I own so I might share them next week. But I have a post for this Monday that is all about money. I'm tempted to post it easier just to show you! :) It has Bunny Money too which we LOVE!
ReplyDeleteThese books look great! My 6 year old has recently been very interested in money, so this would be very appropriate for us right now.
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Joyful Learner - Looking forward to seeing your post on money:) It'll be nice to have some other ideas for Bear. Right now I feel like counting out change is over her head, so we're basically just learning the coins.
ReplyDeleteI just posted it up so I'm done for this entire weekend. I think making it a holistic experience will make it fun and relevant. Check out the link to NTFFC on my post! Have a great weekend!
ReplyDeleteThank you for the book suggestions. We will be working on money this summer and I'll definitely be linking back to you.
ReplyDeleteGreat books! I'm bookmarking them for when my youngest is ready to learn about money :)
ReplyDeleteAwesome list of money books. I should totally capitalize on Superman's obsession with money.
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