This Financial Literacy resource is JAM-PACKED with Canadian money worksheets, a workbook, crafts, anchor charts, center activities, & games…perfect for your grade 1, grade 2, grade 3, or split classroom. Practice identifying coins & bills, counting money, learn about spending & saving, and SO. MUCH. MORE!
Every year, money seems to be one of my class’s favourite math strands…I hope these resources make it a favourite of your students, too ♥
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INCLUDED in the main Financial Literacy Unit:
❇️ Resource introduction & Table of Contents
❇️ Workbook cover pages (3 options)
❇️ Part 1: Meeting the Money
- All About Money – interactive anchor chart
- Introduction to Money – introductory worksheet
- Canadian Coins – anchor chart (2 options)
- Sorting Coins – worksheet (2 options); cut & paste coin sorting by name
- Who Am I? – worksheet; identifying each coin’s value & name
- Colouring Coins – worksheet (2 options); a colour-by-code activity
- Coin Detective – worksheet; identifying name, value, & symbols
- Saving Coins – worksheet; identifying & counting coins
- Money Lineup – worksheet; cut & paste ordering coins by value
- Money Crossword – worksheet (2 options); a picture crossword activity
- Canadian Bills – anchor chart (2 options)
- Sorting Bills – worksheet; cut & paste sorting by value
- Who Am I? – worksheet (2 options); identifying each bill’s value & portrait
- Colouring Bills – worksheet; a colour-by-code activity
- Money Lineup – worksheet; cut & paste ordering bills by value
- Coins & Bills – worksheet; matching to value
- Money BINGO (2 options; coins or bills)
- Money Search – worksheet; financial literacy word search
❇️ Part 2: Comparing Values & Representing Amounts
- Hairy Money – anchor chart
- Piggy Bank Savings – worksheet (2 pages) – skip counting to find total value
- Counting Coins – worksheet; counting & adding values
- Making $1.00 – interactive anchor chart #1; finding different combinations to show $1
- Making $1.00 – anchor chart (2 options)
- Money Many Ways ($1) – worksheet; showing 4 ways to make one dollar
- Money Many Ways (.25c) – worksheet
- Counting Bills – worksheet; counting & adding values
- Money Many Ways ($20) – worksheet
- Money Many Ways ($50) – worksheet
- Money Many Ways ($100) – worksheet
- Making Totals – worksheet; decide how many bills to colour to show each amount
- Making Totals – worksheet; decide how many coins to colour to show each amount
- Dollars & Cents – anchor chart; learning about combined dollars & sense (e.g. $1.25)
- activity cards for anchor chart practice
- Money Many Ways ($4.25) – worksheet
- Making Each Dollar Count – worksheet; grouping quarters, dimes, and nickels in 1 dollar groups
- Making Each Dollar Count – worksheet (2 pages); counting coins & adding value
- Coin Purse Counting – worksheet (2 pages); adding coins, identifying greatest and least value
- What’s in My Wallet? – worksheet; adding bills, identifying greatest and least value
- Box of Chocolates – worksheet; showing $12.50 in 4 different ways
- Gameboy – worksheet; showing $53.75 in 4 different ways
- What’s My Total? – worksheet (2 pages); adding combined dollars & cents
- What Can I Buy? – worksheet (2 pages); adding value & identifying what can be purchased with that amount
❇️ Part 3: Rounding Money
- Rounding $ – anchor chart #1
- Rounding $ – anchor chart #2
- activity cards for anchor chart practice
- Round or Not? – worksheet; identify whether each amount needs to be rounded to the nearest nickel or not
- Round it DOWN! – worksheet; rounding each amount down to the nearest nickel
- Round it UP! – worksheet; rounding each amount up to the nearest nickel
- UP or DOWN? – worksheet; rounding each amount to the nearest nickel
❇️ Part 4: Making Change
- Making Change – anchor chart #1; using the counting up method
- Making Change – anchor chart #2 (2 options)
- Make It COUNT! – worksheet; adding coins to complete the total amount
- Toy Store Change – worksheet (2 pages); showing counting up to calculate change from $1
- Making Change – worksheet; showing change for $1
- Here’s Your Change! – worksheet; identifying if change is correct or not, showing change
❇️ Part 5: Money Management
- Wants & Needs – interactive anchor chart
- Spending & Saving – interactive anchor chart (option 1)
- Spending & Saving – completed anchor chart (option 2)
- Wants & Needs – worksheet; identifying pictures of wants or needs
- Money Management – worksheet; cut & paste to sort examples of spending and saving
- Smart Money Choices – worksheet; labeling & generating examples of saving, spending, and earning
- What Would YOU Do? – worksheet; financial management scenarios
❇️ Assessments
- 5 different pages of assessment options with concepts progressing in complexity (use one, mix-and-match, or use them all!)
❇️ Answer Keys
INCLUDED in the Money Centers & Craft Resource:
❇️ Resource introduction
❇️ Math Center #1: Guess Who? (read clues to identify which Canadian coin or bill is being described)
- 10 clue cards
- worksheet (with word bank)
❇️ Math Center #2: What’s in my Wallet? (count & add up the money pictured on each wallet)
- 12 “simplified” wallet cards
- 12 “advanced” wallet cards
- worksheet
❇️ Math Center #3: THIS Way or THAT! (show 2 ways to make each total amount)
- 10 mats (to use with classroom play money)
- worksheet (2 pages, use 1 or both!)
❇️ Math Center #4: Pick a Purse (choose a coin purse card, look at the store poster to determine what can be purchased with the amount in the purse)
- “Welcome to Coin Mart” poster #1 – school supplies (“simplified”)
- “Welcome to Coin Mart” poster #2 – toys (“advanced”)
- 12 “simplified” coin purse cards
- 12 “advanced” coin purse cards
- worksheet
❇️ Math Center #5: Dollar, Dollar, Bill (matching equal totals of bills to coins)
- 8 puzzle cards (coins/coins & bills one one side, bill on the other)
- extension worksheet
❇️ Money Crafts: Design Your Own Coin or Bill
- craft instructions
- coin templates
- coin writing page
- bill templates
- bill writing page
❇️ BONUS Worksheets! (great for early finishers, sub plans, or extra practice!)
- colouring coins to show the indicated amount
- “Roll, Colour, Count!” (rolling a die and following the key to graph each roll, then adding) ….2 versions!
- Colour by Coin Code (colouring by different representations of each coin)
❇️ Black & White versions (all center cards in ink-saving black and white)
❇️ Answer Keys (answers for all applicable activities)
INCLUDED in the I HAVE…WHO HAS? GAME:
❇️ Detailed resource introduction (with additional suggestions for use!)
❇️ Game #1: Identifying Coins (including visual “game-at-a-glance”)
- all games include 30 student cards + 1 teacher “START” card
❇️ Game #2: Identifying Bills (including visual “game-at-a-glance”)
❇️ Game #3: Identifying Coins & Bills (including visual “game-at-a-glance”)
❇️ Game #4: Adding Coins up to $5.05 (including visual “game-at-a-glance”)
❇️ Game #5: Adding Coins & Bills up to $50 (including visual “game-at-a-glance”)
❇️ All above games in full-colour
INCLUDED in the Money Craft Resource:
❇️ Detailed resource explanation
❇️ Blank sundae elements
❇️ Custom “code” money
- Canadian
- Canadian/generic (values-only)
- American
- American/generic (values-only)
❇️ Sunday elements with Canadian coins
❇️ Sunday elements with Canadian/generic (values-only) coins
❇️ Sunday elements with American coins
❇️ Sunday elements with American/generic (values-only) coins
❇️ Total value card
❇️ Full-page option
❇️ All custom “code” money (as listed above) in black-and white
INCLUDED in the Canadian Money Identification Booklet:
❇️ “My Money Book” booklet cover page (2 options)
❇️ Canadian Coins introductory page
❇️ Coin pages; students will write the name & value of each:
- nickel,
- dime,
- quarter,
- loonie,
- toonie
❇️ “My Favourite Canadian Coin”; a simple opinion & critical thinking reflection
❇️ Canadian Bills introductory page
❇️ Bill pages; students will write the colour & value of each:
- five dollar bill,
- ten dollar bill,
- twenty dollar bill,
- fifty dollar bill,
- one hundred dollar bill
❇️ “Money is Useful!”; students brainstorm & draw/write some of the many things we use money for
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