⭐️ This Money unit helps students master counting coins, adding money, identifying equal amounts, and solving word problems with both coins and dollar bills. Through lesson plans, anchor charts, worksheets, games, and assessments, students practice real-world skills like creating amounts, shopping with money, and understanding dollars and cents in fun, meaningful ways.

⭐️ Make teaching money skills simple and engaging with this complete unit! This resource helps students move beyond simply identifying coins to counting, adding, matching equivalent amounts, creating totals, and solving real-world word problems with both coins and dollars.

⭐️ Perfect for whole group instruction, small groups, centers, or independent practice, this resource builds essential life skills while keeping students motivated with songs, rhymes, games, and hands-on practice.

✨ What’s Included

• Lesson Plans – step-by-step guidance for introducing, modeling, and practicing money concepts
  
• Printable Coins & Bills – ready-to-use sets for class activities
  
• Anchor Charts – clear visuals for counting coins, adding money, and equivalent amounts
  
• Songs & Rhymes – With our original, animated music video and rhymes, this is a fun ways to reinforce coin names and values
  
• Worksheets & Practice Pages:
  
  • Count the Money
    
  • Count It Up
    
  • Match the Money
    
  • Mini-book for creating amounts
    
  • Money Story Problems
    
  • Toy Store Shopping Spree
    
  • Pet Store Shopping
    

• Group & Center Activity – “I Have…Who Has…?” money game
  
• Assessment – easy-to-use final check on student mastery

📚 Skills Covered

• Identifying coins and bills (pennies, nickels, dimes, quarters, dollars)
  
• Counting coins using skip counting
  
• Adding coins and bills to make specific amounts
  
• Matching and creating equivalent amounts in different ways
  
• Solving money-related word problems (addition & subtraction)
  
• Using proper symbols for cents (¢) and dollars ($)
  

🌟 Why Teachers Love It

✔️ Ready-to-use and no-prep – just print and teach
✔️ Combines direct instruction, practice, and real-world application
✔️ Flexible use – whole group, small groups, centers, or independent work
✔️ Engaging formats – songs, rhymes, games, worksheets, and assessments

👉 With this all-in-one money unit, your students will gain the confidence to count, add, and use money in real-life contexts—all while enjoying fun, meaningful activities

⭐️ Includes both Google Slides and Printable PDF. With this unit, students with develop, practice, reinforce, and review their money word problem skills.

⭐️ This unit is aligned to common core standards 2.MD.C.8 If you do not use Common Core, this packet is still perfect for teaching 2nd grade money, coin, dollar, and word problem skills.

Table of Contents:

1. Pedagogy
2. 9 Days Worth of Detailed Lesson Plans
3. Model Print Coin and Bill Set
4. Vocabulary
5. Original Money Song and Video
6. Money Rhymes - 5 in Total
7. Coins Anchor Chart
8. Count The Money Worksheet
9. Adding Money Anchor Chart
10. Count It Up Worksheet
11. Guided Practice Day 3
12. Match The Money Worksheet
13. Mini-book
14. Money Story Problems
15. Toy Store Shopping Spree Worksheet
16. Pet Store Shopping Worksheet
17. I have . . . Who has . . .? Group and Center Activity
18. Money Assessment

Copyright & Terms of Use

For copyright information and a summary of how this resource can and cannot be used, please review the Terms of Use Page.

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