Becky, I printed out the 1st grade and 2nd grade assessments and gave a couple of each so far to my daughter. She breezed through them except for money and time. Money for some reason is an issue for her. We have worked on it for the longest and she still doesn't know which coin is which. I think it is because she doesn't really shop. Maybe other children know because they go out and buy things? We just recently started working on telling time so that is the reason that she doesn't know time yet- she hasn't been exposed that much to it. So it told me what I already knew. We really need to work hard on those 2 things. We school year round. She enjoys it and fusses on errand days when we aren't homeschooling. Thank you again for the assessments!! I had searched and searched and didn't find them! I still need a MN homeschool parent to tell me what I need for the paperwork to send in. No calls back yet! I am getting anxious! I really don't want to call the school and end up sending in more than is required by the MN law.
I know of no 6 yr olds that shop themselves, but I hear more than one mom say their kid has trouble with money. Can you make a poster of each coin? Example- 25 cents. Glue on a quarter, under that, two dimes and a nickel, under that 5 nickels, under that, 25 pennies. Use the calendar date for teaching coins, too. With time, mine can tell hour and half hour. I think this year the book goes into quarter of and quarter after. All you can do is keep pointing out the time on analog clocks and use wkbks.
My kid got this really quickly when I started telling her she could keep the coins she could identify, keep what she could add up correctly & go spend it. I do think they get it quickly when it is their actual money & they have to work out what they can actually buy with it.
Maybe you can find some plastic, yet realistic coins (look in the $1 store) or at the target or k-mart in the toy section. Have her buy things with the play money. For example a pencil cost $.25....... but on mondays she can only use nickles to buy them, but on Wednesdays she has to use quarters. (have some other fun things to buy and sell for school.... like erasers, folders, pencil toppers etc...) for a long time when I asked the kids what time it was (digital) I heard 9 dot dot: one, five---- I would tell them "oh, so its 9:15.... they are learning time now and though I'm glad they are........ minute by minute up dates are a bit agrivating.
I do make my kids spend their own money when we go shopping. (on toys they want). The best place is the $1 store..... don't forget they need tax too! (We round up and they have to have a dime for every dollar they spend there) when you are home let them count their change to you......... in piles of $1 (if you only have one child then I would let them trade that change for dollar bills--- I don't since I have 4 kids). ----- We don't spend more than a few dollars per kid at the $1 store.
Before I read the replies, I came back to update. I called the school, I was complicating it. LOL It was nothing. Everything was mailed in today. She is sending me a school district calender so I know when to send in grades/report card and that is all I had to say on the form: will be using school calender. I spoke to 2 people and both were very nice about it. There are many homeschoolers in our town. I just have not met many yet!
Money is the one thing that makes her eyes glaze over and she just starts saying anything--5 cents! Quarter! Nickel? Penny!! LOL She doesn't much care about it. Maybe because her mother spoils her and I buy so much for her at the store. She doesn't get an allowance. Money means nothing to her. I do use a debit card when shopping too so that probably has something to do with it! I will make the poster as you suggested. I have one but not for 25 cents like that. I had put Quarter=25 cents, Dime=10 cents, and on. I put up a poster with months of the year and she had that down within a week!
maybe you could set up an allowence system. Put up a job chart where things are worth a certian amount of money. Let her count up how much she earned for each activity and put it on the end of the chart and tally up the entire amount for the week. Jobs can be as small as five cents.
She can count by 5's and 10's so you would think counting money would be a breeze but it isn't! Even on the clock, she has trouble. She will count by 5's but not in the right place. Anything else she can count by 5's, I don't know why this is a stumbling block! We learned that last year... counting pencils, blocks, etc. I told her earlier to bring me a nickel from her piggy bank, she brought me a Canadian coin. It was the right size!
Sports, why don't you go to www.atozteacherstuff.co m and ask those ladies what they'd do to teach this?
Great ideas above, we have yet to takle time, slowly we are thou..she can read a digital clock LOL Madison does know her $$ only because I give her change at the bank or if she attacks the change thingy before I do LOL she doesnt always get to keep it but usually its less than .50. Curious--what assesments did you use? were they online?
