Coins, Part Three: A Dime = 10 Cents

Here is the dime if you wish to include it in your study of money and counting. The worksheet below is full size. Just click and save to print it out.

First, have the children color the dimes.

Next, have them write 10 cents on each coin. *Note: Having them chant, "A dime equals ten cents." every time they write it helps them remember.

Finally, see if they can group the dimes into sets of 10. Emphasize that 10 dimes equals 1 dollar. There are 40 dimes, so they will end up with 4 sets, or 4 dollars.

Coins, Part Two: A Nickel = 5 Cents

Continuing with learning money, here is the nickle. Of course, I didn't introduce this until we were first able to count to 25. The worksheet below is full size. Just click on the image for the sheet you can save and print.

First, color the coins.

Next, write 5 cents on each coin.

Then, have them circle the nickles into groups of 2, teaching them that 2 nickles = 1 dime, or 10 cents.

Finally, for those who need to be challenged, have them group the coins in groups of 5, to tell them that 5 nickles = a quarter, 25 cents. There are 40 coins, so there will be 20 groups of 2, and 8 groups of 5.

Math Game - "Fill-er-Up Five"

I'm using this activity during our Ten Minute Smarters. I grabbed some deviled egg platters from the dollar store. I already had the rocks, but another teacher is using buttons.

* Each child gets his own platter. Fill the center with counters.
* First child rolls the die. THE OBJECT IS THEY CAN ONLY PUT FIVE COUNTERS IN EACH DEPRESSION. So if a child rolls a 6, they would put 5 counters in one space, and put the 1 in a new space. Or, for example, if a depression already has 2 counters, and the child rolls a 4, they would finishing filling that depression with 3 counters (to make a total of 5), and put the rest in a new depression.

* A depression must be filled with 5 counters before moving to a new depression.

* First one to fill up his platter wins, OR, when time is called, they can Count By 5s to see how many counters they've placed, and the student with the most wins.

The 100 Worm - A Cute "Counting By 10s" Freebie

I came up with this worksheet as a quick and easy way to review counting by 10s.

What they do is cut out the circles and glue them "touching" on a separate sheet of paper. The head is at the beginning, the 100 is the end. After they glue the worm on their paper, they go back and write each number in each circle.

You can download the template here for free!

Counting to 20

The Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (aka TEKS) for Kindergarten require that all children be "fluent" up to the number 20. That means addition, subtraction, identifying and writing the numbers, and making groups up to 20.

This is an activity that helps them count to 20 by 5s, reinforces fine motor skills, and is just plain fun to do.

Take a sheet of construction paper and have them fold it in fourths.  They then cut out pictures of objects from a magazine and glue 5 in each square.  Thus 5 x 4 = 20.