LITTLE MARKET LESSON A lesson about how to

LITTLE MARKET LESSON A lesson about how to count money.

Objective The objective of this lesson is for students to learn how to count and use money correctly. Students will make and sell food products out of paper to sell to other students or if at home sell to other family members. Run your little market for 2 hours if you are doing the assignment at home. It is important for students to learn how to count and use money because they will use is in their everyday life.

Materials Teachers will need: Paper Scissors Glue Markers, Fake paint, crayons, colored pencils or real money

Steps Step 1 - Students need to make the food products they would like to sell at their market. Step 2 - Make a sign for your market and hung it up. Step 3 - Set up your little mini market and have fun!

The Coin Song!

How to count money Penny 1 cent Takes 5 pennies to make a nickel 10 pennies to make a dime 25 pennies to make a quarter 100 pennies to make a dollar Nickel 5 cents Takes 2 nickels to make a dime 5 nickels to make a quarter 20 nickels to make a dollar

How to count money cont. Dime 10 cents Takes 2 dimes and 1 nickel or 5 pennies to make a quarter 10 dimes to make a dollar Quarter 25 cents Takes 4 quarters to make a dollar

Wrap up After the time is up close your market. And clean up. Write a short paper about how well your market did. Your short paper should include: what you learned, what sold and what didn’t sell, how well you did with making change, and counting money.