As part or our continued study of measurement, first grade students are embarking on an in-depth money unit.  To being, we reviewed recognition skills, asking students to name and identify coins and their values.  We watched brief introductory videos and sang along to money themed songs.  We will practice skip counting groups of coins, adding and subtracting coins, finding equivalent groups of coins, and exchanging coins.  Students will be introduced to dollar and cents notation and solve problems involving money.  Thus far, students have enjoyed reading about different coins and then investigating themselves. In the coming days, they will continue working on a money math packet, practice money related skills on IXL, play a variety of money games, and make their very own “coin creations,” complete with profiles and representative symbols.