Lesson Plan
Counting and Adding: Penny For Your Thoughts
Get students familiar with money by counting the lowest denomination of currency: the penny! This is a great way to reinforce consecutive numbers and addition lessons.
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Learning Objectives
Students will be able to recognize a penny, know its value, and add any amount of pennies together.
Introduction
(10 minutes)- Call the students together as a group.
- Ask them if they have ever used money, and if so what they used it for. Take responses by raised hands.
- Show students a penny and ask them what it is called. Take responses by raised hands.
- Ask students if they know how much a penny is worth. Take responses by raised hands, then tell students that a penny is equal to one cent, and 100 pennies make one dollar.
- Ask students what they think they could purchase with one penny.
- Tell the students that today they will be counting pennies.