Kindergarten Counting Coins
Kindergarteners at Holladay Elementary have been learning how to count coins (K.7) and how to count by fives and tens (K.4c), so today students in Ms. Silber’s class practiced both those skills using Pixie. First we opened up Pixie, and I showed them how to use the stamp tool to stamp out different coins. I told them to use pennies, nickels, and dimes, and to only stamp out as many coins as they were willing to count. Next they counted the pennies, and I showed them how to use the paint tool to write the number. Then we chose a different color for the nickels, counted by fives, and wrote that number. Finally we picked a new color for the dimes, counted by tens, and wrote that number. We exported the finished drawings as JPG files and I helped the students upload them to a Comemories page so they could see each others’ pictures. You can take a look at it here. I did a similar lesson in Ms. Carlo’s class, but this time we were focused on just identifying the value of each coin. You can check out some of their drawings here.