This week in Primary 1 we have been learning all about money.

LI: We are learning to recognise the value of different coins

SC

• I can sort coins
• I can recognise and name coins of the same value
• I can count 1p coins and say how much I have altogether

We began by investigating and sorting coins using criteria suggested by the children.

The children had lots of different ideas, and soon we had –

• a set of silver coins
• a set of brown coins
• a set of big coins
• a set of round coins
• a set of coins with straight bits

Then we  looked even more closely and we began to recognise that the coins had numbers on them, so we sorted them according to the numbers too. We decided to focus on 1p coins.

We looked at money bags containing 1p coins and we counted how much there was in each one.

We played some interactive games on the Smartboard.  We emptied the 1p coins out of  Piggy Banks and counted how much there was altogether.

We used 1p coins to fill up the Piggy Banks.

We used 1p coins to buy items in a shop.

We used 1p coins to play a game with a partner.

Primary 1 really enjoyed exploring coins this week. We will continue to revisit the topic of Money, and develop our skills further over the coming months.