Money Matters!

The more different opportunities you give students to experience coins, the better chance they have of latching on to some sort of comparison, fact or piece of trivia that helps the light bulb go on, so that they are able to identify the coins and give you some information about them.

Making this Autograph Coin booklet is a fun way to do that.  Run off copies for all of your students, or simply make one for yourself and share your teacher’s copy with them. I was fascinated with the President’s signatures.

Washington and Jefferson wrote with feather quills.  Set up a center activity where students write their name with a feather-dipped in paint.

I did this for a Constitution Day activity and have a template for that. Click on the link to view/download the quill page from Activities For Constitution Day.

To get some name writing practice in, include an extra page with the booklet and have students collect some autographs of their friends, or to expedite things, have each student sign one paper, and  run off copies for everyone, entitled Your Classmate’s Autographs.

Click on the link to view/download the Coin Autograph Booklet  Do you have a teaching tip you’d like to share?  I’d enjoy hearing from you. diane@teachwithme.com or leave a comment here, especially if you used an idea! Thanks in advance.