So today we continued with our money lesson which included some work in the Calvert Math book and the math workbook. The lesson introduced the quarter and consisted of several sorting exercises (sort the coins front and back). She also had to do an exercise which asked if she had enough money to buy different items for various amounts, like a kite for 3 cents if she had 7 cents, etc.
Then, we had some real fun and set up our own grocery store with empty boxes and grocery bags.

I went to http://moneyinstructor.com to print off a sheet of $1, $5 and $10 bills but we never got around to using the fives and tens.

I decided to keep it simple and just used the ones and all of the change that came with the Calvert curriculum.

It was fun! I loved it when she realized for the first time that when you buy something, your actual cash in your wallet depletes! The look on her face was priceless. After a while I started to run low on bags because we reuse our canvas totes and have very few plastic bags, so I began to charge her. She got smart and started bringing her own bags, lol.