Second Grade has been working hard to review the value of coins in Math and learn how to describe the physical properties of objects in Science. So here in the library we have put those two things together!
During their weekly library time, each second grade class came in to grow a Money Tree! Coins were placed in dishes at the middle of each table and students were given blank trees. One at a time, students were asked to find a specific coin from the dish and complete a rubbing of that coin on their empty tree. The rubbed coin would make a leaf! We discussed both the coins value and the physical properties of the coin!
During their weekly library time, each second grade class came in to grow a Money Tree! Coins were placed in dishes at the middle of each table and students were given blank trees. One at a time, students were asked to find a specific coin from the dish and complete a rubbing of that coin on their empty tree. The rubbed coin would make a leaf! We discussed both the coins value and the physical properties of the coin!
Kiddos did such a great job identifying the coins and remembering the values assigned. We also identified several new ways to think about our coins (the quarter is the roughest of all, the nickel has the deepest edges, etc). They each left with a tree full of coin rubbings and a new understanding of how each coin differed and how Science and Math could relate!
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