Can you please give me good teaching tips?

Question

how do i teach 5 year old kids , on how to spend money wisely... and they cannot waste money...... this subject is only 1 hour so please give me some good ideas..

i am still a part time teacher and i will be observe by my supervisor.... i really need to do this well....

thank you and god bless...

Answer 1

this topic is way beyond 5 year olds.  The only thing I do with money in our preschool class is help to identify the coins.  We adopted a mission child from Ethiopia and the kids bring in coins from home to send to him and we take turns putting them in, saying the coin and how much it is worth. I also have a poster up that they can match up the coin so they can at least do that if they can't identify the coin yet.

Answer 2

Maybe a hands on thing. DO a demonstration with a kid up in the front. Give the kid some pennies (about 10) and let him choose something he wants. You could have a pencil and a piece of candy at the first booth. Count on the child choosing the candy, and make it more expensive than the pencil. Then have another set of items on display and let the child choose another thing he wants. (present one item that is more valuable than the piece of candy) Hope that the kid will choose the more valuable item.

By now he shouldn't have that much pennies left. Set up a scene where someone gets hurts (maybe you) and have an ice pack or pack of bandaids for sale.

Say  that you've been hurt and ask the class what you can do?

hopefully the kids will see the band aids or ice pack and point to it. Ask the kid in front whether he has enough money to buy you that. (The trick is that he won't have enough pennies and either has to get a refund or, you lay there in pain).

You can try the experiment again with another kid and same situation until someone gets the point that they should save their money in case of an emergency. (remember to get hurt each time so they will have to deal with this situation)

Answer 3

GETTING STARTED

there are a few things  you must have: children, a place to move, color, sing, dance, eat, play, and work, lots of paper and crayons, and a good format.

Here is a format you can follow (the other things you will have to come up with on your own).

Prayer-Welcome

Start with the same beginning each day; a prayer, a welcome song, the pledge of allegiance or whatever else you feel comfortable with. This should just be something to signal the beginning of your preschool. It lets the kids know that we are starting now.

Calendar

You can use any kind of a calendar to talk about what day it is. Something big that they can manipulate and help out with works well to teach them days of the week, months, etc. We also sing a song to go along with putting up the date for each day.

"Today is Monday,

Today is Monday,

Monday all day long,

Yesterday was Sunday,

And tomorrow will be Tuesday,

But today, today is Monday."

Weather

Next talk about what the weather is like and after the children decide, have them show it on a weather chart. Also if your children are older, it is fun to keep a graph and mark how many day of snow or sunshine or rain you have been having. You can also talk about what kind of clouds or precipitation you are having or what temperature it is.

Write the "Letter of the Week"

Now comes the "Letter of the Week" part. Get a large piece of paper (newspaper roll ends, purchased at most local newspaper offices, work great for this). Hang up the paper and write the letter of the week (uppercase) larger than life in marker right in the middle. If the kids are older or have already learned upper-case letters, draw both the upper and lower-case letters.

Talk about the letter

Depending on how advanced they are, ask or tell them what the letter is, what it says (its sound), and then practice it together a few times.

Pictionary

On your big paper, draw pictures of words that begin with the letter and have the children guess. Use colorful, washable markers and let the kids have a turn or two drawing a picture for everyone to guess. You can suggest a word for them to draw or sometimes (as in the case with my 2 year old) let them draw what they want and then give it a name that begins with the letter of the week. For L week, we called Rachel's picture "litter". For I week, it was "insect". For B week we drew a string on it and called it a "balloon". You get the idea.

Activities

Finally, break up the rest of the time with learning activities. Emphasize the word that goes with each activity and the sound that the letter makes in the word. Have a good mix of activities. You can do them in the same order each day (for example, science, then art, then physical, then stories, then music, then food) or shuffle the different activities each day, depending on the mood of your children. Not every day will include an activity from each area, due to time restraints or attention spans, but include a good mix (don't forget the important ones, like food and physical) each day.

Answer 4

b polite with the students

Answer 5

listen to what they have to say, they will always remember.

Answer 6

a teaching lesson that lasts an hour with 5 year olds is very hard....and the concept is very abstract to them.  however, a book that I like that teaches about money is "Alexander, Who Used to be Rich Last Sunday."  My kids have loved it in the past.

Answer 7

1HOUR?????  OK, if you try to "teach" 5 year old children for one hour then you are asking for some serious guidance issues.  Here is something that you should keep in the back of your mind when preparing/"teaching" this activity.  I am sure that almost all of the teachers will agree with something we learned about what you are trying to do. CHILDREN LEARN BY DISCOVERING!!!  OK, lets think about what could be done that would involve $ and also be child centered.  What I mean is that the attention is not on YOU its on them.  If you try to "teach" in a traditional way too much you will never keep 5 year old children engaged.  Think about incorporating some movement somehow?  These kids love things that are real.  What do you do with your money?  These children have some concept of money by going to the store with parents.  I propose you make a dramatic play where the children could assign roles to themselves, move around, make decisions, have ownership etc. (its endless)  Making a store with some props and "grown up " costumes would be sooooo easy.  Perhaps you begin your lesson on the carpet (make this what you want, this is how you own this activity) talk about money. After your short discussion.....go to the store (dramatic play).  Model behavior for touching, voice etc.  Here is another tip.....try not to have ONE of anything.  Go to NAEYC and read about the aspects of dramatic play and the social, emotional, cognitive, creative, physical and cultural benefits.  You have got this one!!!!

PS. I don't need points!! If you have any questions e mail me.   I  wont do this for you, but I will guide you as you make this your own. I think dramatic play is highly underrated!! Remember, being a "good teacher" is more about how you stay out of the way (facilitate) than how you make yourself the focus of attention.  I have been where you are....we all have....NO PROBLEM!!!

Answer 8

i don't really think this topic will work with 5 yo kids. They r more precise in laughing and adapting friends around them. If u really needed to do so, try to give them a concept of what if they r penniless one day n wanna eat their favourite chocolate while their friends r enjoying. saving for raining days would seem get their attention. good luck...

Answer 9

this is a somewhat complicated concept for kids to understand.

i guess you can start off with explaining how money is not limitless, where it comes from (blood, work, tears, however you want to word it).  explain the value in simple terms.

explain the quality of something and how that affects your money spending decision. for example, why buy a toy that will break the next day fro $1 when you can buy a better one that will last a lifetime for say $5 or something.  

kids need to understand that there are certain things you can live with and without, such as candy or little accessories that really aren't necessary.  

also teach them how to save money.

it is a pretty tough subject to teach to 5 year olds. hopefully the parents are there too, if not...it should be okay too.

GOOD LUCK!!! =D

Answer 10

5 year olds are too young to get this concept. They will think that buying 10 m&ms for a dollar is wiser than buying one snickers for a dollar.

Answer 11

I am not exactly sure where you got the idea about teaching children this age to spend money wisely.  It is not a good one I fear. These children should be playing to learn not taught something this abstract. Sorry I am not being of help here but I think you need to talk with your supervisor about this idea and why you are having this as an observation. It would make more sense to allow the children to have a store of some sort and she can observe what you have provided for them to use. Let them make their own money etc. An hour of this would be having several centers open in a classroom where the children can play for a time at each center with the money theme. Good luck.