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Kindergarten - Language Arts
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The Gingerbread Man
Financial and Economic Concepts: Career Management
Kindergarten – Language Arts
Reading: Literature Standard 2: With prompting and support, retell familiar stories, including key details.
Reading: Literature Standard 3: With prompting and support, identify characters, settings, and major events in a story.
Reading: Informational Text Standard 10: Actively engage in group reading activities with purpose and understanding.
Time: 45 minutes
Materials: Book - The Gingerbread Man, an Old English Folktale, optional: camera, shape cutouts to represent school staff jobs.
Students will learn about the types of jobs in their school and meet the people who do them. Students tour their school building and meet the staff along the way (principal, secretary, custodian, etc). After discussing the people they met and their jobs, students listen to the story of The Gingerbread Man. The class then retells the story having the gingerbread man run from the workers at school rather than the characters in the book.
The Wants and Needs of Making a Difference
Financial and Economic Concepts: Needs and Wants Kindergarten – Language Arts
Reading: Literature Standard 1: With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
Writing Standard 2: Use a combination of drawing, dictating, and writing to compose informative/explanatory texts in which they name what they are writing about and supply some information about the topic.
Speaking and Listening Standard 5: Add drawings or other visual displays to descriptions as desired to provide additional detail.
Language Standard 5: With guidance and support from adults, explore word relationships and nuances in word meanings.
A Chair for My Mother
by Vera B. Williams
ISBN: 0688040748
Time: 45 minutes
Materials: Overhead projector, Book: A Chair for My Mother by Vera Williams, transparencies and class handouts (embedded in the lesson plan), crayons and pencils, paper.
Students learn about wants, needs and philanthropy through class discussion activities and listening to the story, A Chair for My Mother. As a class, discuss wants and needs, then complete a wants and needs worksheet. Further discuss wants and needs and key vocabulary after reading A Chair for my Mother. Students will be introduced to the concept of philanthropy and have the chance to participate in a whole-group shared writing of a thank you letter to the community (from the story). They will also write/draw/or dictate their reflection on whether the chair in the story was a want or a need.
Money Mini Book
Financial and Economic Concepts: Coin identification Kindergarten – Language Arts
Writing Standard 2: Use a combination of drawing, dictating, and writing to compose informative/explanatory texts in which they name what they are writing about and supply some information about the topic.
Time: 20 minutes
Materials: 5 quarter sheets of printer paper per child, crayons, pencils, coins glued to a poster board.
Students will make a money mini book. Set up this small group activity by hot gluing 8 coins to a poster board. Glue two pennies next to each other (one heads up, one tails up). Write the word “Penny” under the coins (you could also include the value (“1 cent”). Repeat this process with nickels, dimes, and quarters on the poster board. You may want to put the 4 different types of coins near the four corners of the poster board to give students plenty of room to work together.
The students will make coin rubbings with the broad side of the crayon. They’ll rub one type of coin for each of their small pieces of paper (rub both heads and tails). Then they will write the word labeling the coin under their picture (and/or value). Once they have made all four pages, they’ll use the fifth page as a cover and write the words “________’s Money Book” on the front. Then staple all 5 pages together.
Then students will read their completed book to a friend.