Primary 2 showed that they were up to the challenge by thinking about what they know about money and receiving change- we thought of lots of important ideas.

Next came the challenge of finding out how much money Mrs Keith had left us in her box. We worked in groups to sort the coins into values, but we found out that there was pretend money there too so we sorted that from the real money.

Next we had to work out how much we had of every coin! This was good for our careful counting of 1p, counting in 2s and 10s. When all the coin values were counted we had to add them all together. The pupils added the units, then watched Mrs Macleod exchange to the 10 and 100 columns- all sums that we will be able to do before too long.

Mrs Keith was pleased that we could tell her how much money she had and it was a lovely surprise for her that the pretend money had been sorted out too!

Everyone had a go at buying an item and working out the change- we are all getting the hang of this and are getting quicker at choosing the correct coins for the change.

Have a lovely weekend and practise shopping if you can.