This 45-minute kindergarten math lesson teaches students about nickels, dimes, and quarters. The lesson begins with a recap of pennies from the previous day. Students will then learn identifying details about each coin and write about them in journals. To apply their knowledge, students will use pretend money to purchase items from an in-class store, seeing how coins of different values can buy different amounts. The lesson aims to teach students cognitive and psychomotor skills through writing, discussion, and hands-on activities with money.

1. All in One
Grade-Kindergarten
Subject-Math
Duration-45 minutes (1 class period)
Georgia Performance Standards: MKN1h
Identify coins by name and value (penny, nickel, dime, and quarter.)
Materials:
Teacher’s edition book
Pretend/real money
Promethean Board
ActivInspire computer program
Access to Internet
In-class store
Goals: Students will learn details about the nickel, dime, and quarter. Students will be able
to reflect on all they have learned in their journals; they will also be able to use money to buy
things of a respective value.
Objectives:
Cognitive- Students will learn information on the nickel, dime, and quarter, write
about each, and use money to buy items.
Psychomotor- Auditory, musical, visual, hands-on
Procedures:

2. 1. To open up the lesson the teacher should recap the details of a penny from the
previous day; the teacher should also incorporate questions for the students in this
recap.
2. After this, the teacher should grab the student’s attention for today’s lesson by
playing “Show Me the Money” by Harry’s Kindergarten.
3. The teacher will then give the details about what is on each coin of a nickel, dime, and
quarter. The students should be able to identify the coin and value from previous
lessons.
4. The students should then be instructed back to their seats, and the teacher should
hand out pretend money and pre-made journals to students individually.
5. The teacher should instruct students to write all the information they remember
about each coin in their journals.
6. At this point, the teacher should also tell the students that she will call the students
up a few at a time to spend their pretend money in the store she has set up in the
classroom.
7. The store should allow the students to see how they can buy certain things with
different amounts of money.
8. Once everyone is done with their journals and everyone has gotten to go to the
store, teacher should call on students individually so that they can share what they
put in their journals about certain coins as a wrap-up for the day.
Evaluation:
Oral post assessment
Writing assessment
Hands-on assessment