Money! How Much Is It Worth? (Self-Paced)
4-Week Self-Paced Course. Ages 4-8
Course Summary
Join me in a fun-filled learning experience where we explore American coins through shopping and songs. Each week, we will delve into a different coin, learning about its value and various ways to pay. Let's enhance our counting skills by practicing counting in 5's, 10's, and 25's. We will engage in interactive sessions with catchy songs to aid in retention and enjoyment. Through the use of large magnetic and real money props, we will handle and identify coins, discussing their colors, shapes, and unique features. In addition to my instructional videos, I will share some of my top picks from YouTube to reinforce learning about money and skip counting. I will also provide visuals and handouts illustrating the coin combinations needed to make a dollar. For extra practice, I have included entertaining worksheets featuring engaging themes such as Mermaids, Mosasauruses, Monsters, Space, Medical, and more. Select your preferred workbook to enhance your money-related activities.
Lesson One will focus on pennies and dimes, allowing us to practice counting by ones and tens.
Lesson Two will be dedicated to nickels, honing our counting skills in fives.
In Lesson Three, we will shift to quarters, mastering the art of counting by 25's.
Lesson Four will challenge us to determine the various coin combinations that add up to one dollar, showcasing the versatility of payment methods. For instance, we can pay with 30 pennies, 6 nickels, or 3 dimes. As we progress, we will tackle slightly more complex scenarios like determining the coins needed for a purchase of seventeen cents.
Incorporating student interactions, I will host live sessions where participants select a number from my whiteboard to reveal a surprise cake. To win the cake, they must correctly calculate the amount required for purchase. For example, "This delectable cake costs 30 cents, how many dimes do you need?" Students can respond by messaging me or sharing a video of their solution.
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Elizabeth McMann
Hello parents and students,
I started Teach Me Truth Christian School because of the need for families to have a safe space for learning. After reading, "Mama Bear Apologetics", I recognized the call for a Christian education platform. Not only teaching children about the Bible, but also teaching apologetics that back up the Bible with science, logic, facts, history and intellectual reasoning. I am passionate about homesteading, homeschooling and working on becoming more independent from the world and government. Most schools in person and online censor Christianity and promote everything else - and I mean everything else! As parents, our jobs are becoming more difficult to protect our children from the evils of this world while at the same time educating them about the truth. Soon after starting the online platform, God called me to start an in-person school as well.
My Teaching Style: I encourage learning through enthusiastic engagement. I believe children learn best through curiosity or play. Teaching online has been my passion for six years. I was an online English teacher with VIPKID for over three years and an Outschool teacher since 2020. VIPKID taught me how to engage with students in a virtual setting. They taught me how to use props, singing and demonstrations to increase learning. I encourage student output and participation during class.
About Me: I have a bachelor's degree in marketing and science. I am an entrepreneur and business owner. I have also been in the beauty industry for over 15 years. I am a homeschooling mom of five. I am constantly seeking creative ways for my children and students to learn new things.
My Homeschooling Style: As a homeschooling mom of 4, my favorite part of teaching is sort of "tricking" them into learning. What I mean by this is, we often play learning games and sing songs. In addition to this, my children have learning games on their devices and we listen to learning songs in the car. Some of our favorite online resources include: Easy Peasy Homeschool, Education.com and Miacademy and Flock School. Some of our favorite learning games are: ABC and sight word bingo, memory match, shout-and-grab, ABC caterpillar board game, dinosaur nest game, Uno, chess, checkers, matching, fill in the blank phonics sounds and more. We love arts and craft time as well as create weekly science projects. My kiddos enjoy both live and self-paced online classes. Our kids participate in chores, taking care of our chickens, ducks, dog and cat. We love projects and currently are building a chicken coop. Lastly, our book work is a small part of learning each day.
