Teaching About Money

Kaelyn, my 1st grader, enjoyed her shopping.

Kaelyn was looking forward to shopping.

A few days ago, I asked my youngest if she wanted to play store.  She was so excited that she told her oldest brother about it.  I felt so bad the next day because I was under the weather.  Yes, I go through that a lot.  I still decided to go through with it by asking her to bring her toy food into my bedroom.

I loved watching Kaelyn shop and purchase.

The toys ended up on my bed.  I crocheted while she shopped.  Once she had finished choosing her foods, I tallied it up on the white cash register or yellow calculator.  Then, I asked her to pay with the fake money which we had purchased with a cheap cash register tray. 

We used the scanner on the white cash register.

Play money was fun and great hands on learning.

A handy calculator added up some of the purchases.

Priced crayons provided direct experience of purchasing.

My daughter is still learning about what each coin represents.  Years ago, I had made the manilla folder, pictured below, for my oldest (who is now 15 years-old).  I want my youngest child to enjoy learning about money.  I also like making teaching material for my kids to learn concepts like money.  That's why I made the following available to her during her shopping experience:

Manilla folder with money worksheets aided the learning.

Worksheet about money can be found at Enchanted Learning.

 

It's easy to put together a manilla folder like the one above.  You can find worksheets (and cut and paste bits) that reflect the math facts and/or other subject which are desired.  Enchanted Learning is a wonderful website with lots of useful worksheets.  That's a website that features many subjects and even a paid membership.  Many of the worksheets are free, though.

 

 

Well, thanks for reading this entry about teaching money.  I hope I've given you another idea for teaching money, one of the first math concepts for the elementary grades.

How about you, my readers?  How have you taught your children about money?  Have you ever considered using fake money and mini-posters to teach early childhood learning concepts?  Your children can benefit from using a hands on method to learn.

May God bless us all with His wisdom and peace, as we teach your children.

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Teaching Our Children About God

The Bible teaches us to teach our children about God.

1 A psalm of Asaph. O my people, listen to my teaching. Open your ears to what I am saying,  2 for I will speak to you in a parable. I will teach you hidden lessons from our past --  3 stories we have heard and know, stories our ancestors handed down to us.  4 We will not hide these truths from our children but will tell the next generation about the glorious deeds of the LORD. We will tell of his power and the mighty miracles he did.  5 For he issued his decree to Jacob; he gave his law to Israel. He commanded our ancestors to teach them to their children,  6 so the next generation might know them -- even the children not yet born -- that they in turn might teach their children.  7 So each generation can set its hope anew on God, remembering his glorious miracles and obeying his commands.

  --Psalm 78: 1-7 New Living Translation  Take time to read the Bible. It amazes me the stories that are recounted in the Bible.  There are grand deeds that God has done for His chosen people.  If it weren't for someone jotting them down, we wouldn't know anything about them.  Yet, some people have Bibles and don't read them.  They don't understand that if they really got into the Word, they would go beyond the milk and into the meat of who God is.   These particular verses of the Bible illustrate what God wanted for His people.  He wanted them to teach their children about Him.  That way, the children, and their children's children, would know about Him and His promise to provide for them.  For His people to know of the past provisions would continue to give them hope.  Without hope of a better fate, life is hard to live. 
Along with receiving countless blessing from God, we must give Him something back--obedience.  It's important that, in any relationship, there be some give and take.  It's no different in this case.  God loves to be our Daddy, providing us all that we need.  All we need to do is obey Him.  
How do we obey God?
We obey God by teaching our children about Him.  We teach our children about the miracles God has done for His people.  We let our children know that we, too, can receive those blessings.  We must also take the time to know what is right from wrong and refrain from doing bad.  
How do we know right from wrong?
In the past, the laws of God were contained in the Ark of the Covenant.  We now have the Bible in our hands.  We have copies of the laws of God.  There is no excuse to disobey God, but the reality is that some don't choose to read the Bible.  These individuals leave it to others to tell them what to do throughout life.
What are we teaching our children?
Are we leaving it to others to teach our children about God?  Are we reading the Bible to them?  Are we discussing with our children about all the provisions God has given us?  The best way to teach children about God is to recount the miracles from the past and back it up with what the Bible says.  In saying this, I must say it is imperative to teach about the consequences of disobedience, too. 

Well, thanks so much for reading today's blog entry about teaching our children about God.  I appreciate you taking the time to read it.

 How about you, my readers?  Are you reading your Bibles?  Have you shared the Word of God with your children?  Do you know about the provisions and instructions of God?  Are you discussing the topics of obedience and disobedience with your children?  I encourage you to read the rest of Psalm 78.  You can know what happens as a result of disobedience.   God bless you all, my dear friends, with His wisdom and peace.  In Jesus' name.  Amen! 

This has been an entry for the Spiritual Sundays series. 

To compile this mini- bible study, I visited: http://www.biblestudytools.com/

Teaching Children to Live Righteously

The Bible teaches us how to respect God.

  1 "Listen, you priests; this command is for you!  2 Listen to me and take it to heart. Honor my name," says the LORD Almighty, "or I will bring a terrible curse against you. I will curse even the blessings you receive. Indeed, I have already cursed them, because you have not taken my warning seriously.  3 I will rebuke your descendants and splatter your faces with the dung of your festival sacrifices, and I will add you to the dung heap.  4 Then at last you will know it was I who sent you this warning so that my covenant with the Levites may continue," says the LORD Almighty.  5 "The purpose of my covenant with the Levites was to bring life and peace, and this is what I gave them. This called for reverence from them, and they greatly revered me and stood in awe of my name.  6 They passed on to the people all the truth they received from me. They did not lie or cheat; they walked with me, living good and righteous lives, and they turned many from lives of sin.  7 The priests' lips should guard knowledge, and people should go to them for instruction, for the priests are the messengers of the LORD Almighty.  --Malachi 2: 1-7 New Living Translation   As a home schooling mother, I think it is imperative for me to teach my children about God.  They must also learn to revere, or respect, God.  To show that, I must introduce them to what our God requires.  I must also show the consequences of not respecting God.  This chapter 2 of Malachi is a perfect example.  Malachi 2 is about the priests and the Levites.  I think it also applies to us in our day.  We are to love God and respect Him or we will suffer through curses.  Just as God had asked the priests to honor and obey His commands, we are asked today to do the same.  Just as the bad fate was predicted for not following God's commands, we are liable to fall into the same fate, too.  We, as parents, should ask our kids to read the entire chapter 2 of Malachi.  It would give them an indication of how they should conduct their lives.  Our children would know they should keep from lying and cheating.  They would also know that they can turn others from wrong-doing, too.  Our children, and our society, would be better for it.  How about you, my readers? Are you teaching your children about God?  Are you discussing about what it means to respect God?  Are the children in your life taking to heart that lying and cheating should not be part of their lives?  I encourage you today to consider if your children really are loving and respecting God.  Don't leave it to chance that your children might live righteously.  Our children need guidance.  I pray that God gives you all, my beloveds, His wisdom and peace. 

 
This has been an entry for the Spiritual Sundays series. 

To compile this mini- bible study, I visited: http://www.biblestudytools.com/