Teaching Coin identification | Coin Pocket Calendar | Printable | Free | Grades 1-2
Teaching Coin Identification
Teaching coin identification, counting money, and patterns by using a pocket calendar. This post includes a free coin calendar pieces printable. This activity is perfect for grades 1-2.
Life has been crazy lately with a vacation, wedding, and then trying to get back into our regular routine. One of those routines is daily calendar time.
I love calendar time! It is a time for me to quickly review math concepts and build number sense in my kiddos.
Coin Calendar
Both my boys love it too and enjoy predicting what the new date will show.
So what can we learn using these calendar pieces? These pieces will help your students with coin identification, counting money, and patterns.
Here’s my other fun coin recognition game for your children to try. If your children need to practice subtracting money use these money subtracting task cards.
Calendar Pocket Chart to Teach Kids about Patterns
The calendar pieces for the pocket chart all have patterns. My preschooler has been working on patterns, so using colors I created an AB pattern. Each day I ask him what the next color will be, and he is doing great with being able to tell me.
My kindergartener, who is doing the first-grade math, needed a little bit of a harder one. He is really into “skip counting” right now so I decided to change the color of the numbers on the multiples of three. He has had a blast figuring out which number would be the color blue next.
Coin Identification
Since my oldest will be focusing on coins this month, these coin calendar pieces work on coin identification.
Once again, you will see a pattern on which coins will be used. This one is a little harder and caused my oldest to have to really think about what the new day will hold, especially when we are trying to figure out Monday without the help of Saturday and Sunday.
The coin pattern is heads quarter, nickel, dime, dime, and then tails quarter, nickel, dime, dime. I wanted the kiddos to recognize the coins, but I also wanted to reinforce their value.
Counting Money for Kids
Each day we add the value of the coin to the previous total. For example, the first day is a quarter. I wrote $0.25 on the plastic part of the calendar. The next day was a nickel, so we wrote $0.30 on the calendar.
After a few days, I had them predict what the total would be at the end of the month. Trust me when I say we needed to revise our predictions halfway through the month. As we’ve been getting closer to the end of the month, they have once again revised their predictions!
I hope these calendar pieces are as helpful to you as they have been for us for teaching kids coins.
