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Our Week: Shopping Theme

November 1, 2014 by Nadia van Zyl 2 Comments

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This was another busy week: concert practice, evaluation and learning about shopping! We used coins this week for different learning activities. The “coin concept” is difficult to grasp for the little ones, but nevertheless we did it in a fun way!

I’ve asked the children to bring 10 brown coins to school. We used these for counting, making “sums” and sorting too. (A lesson about safety regarding coins, never put it in your mouth, was taught repeatedly).

coin sorting

Sensory Play

sensory play

In the Sensory bin we had maize corn this week: adding some bottle caps and spoons, and also egg cartons, coins and paintbrushes to “catch” the coins for the right compartment.

Playdough Activities

playdough activities

Coins make interesting impressions in playdough and with alot of imagination it can be used to make a hedgehog too!

Crafts

recycle craft wallet

We made a wallet from cardboard and laced them closed, working on fine motor skills and hand eye coordination. The kids used these wallets to keep the coins in they brought to school.

On Friday the older kids brough sweets and cakes to sell at the school like a real shop.
I made these ice cream cupcakes for my daughter to sell, but unfortunately she was home sick that day.

ice cream cupcakes

These were made with the recipe we used to make the rainbow cupcakes last week, but Initially I wanted to make cake pops(which failed), so I crumbled those up, added some cream cheese frosting and added them to mini edible cupcake cases with a sweetie ball on top.

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  1. Christy says

    November 4, 2014 at 4:49 pm

    It’s fun to see what the week in the life of a teacher really looks like. I like the wallet idea. My daughter is asking me for sewing projects, and I haven’t been sure what to give her .

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    • Nadia van Zyl says

      November 4, 2014 at 6:10 pm

      You can even do the wallet with craft foam or felt..

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