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This activity allows young students to match real life community worker pictures to photos of their toy counterparts. You can purchase the community worker figures from Constructive Playthings or just let your students work with the cards. I use mine in my pre-K/ kindergarten Montessori classroom. My students match the cards first and then place each figure by the correct card set. The cards are self-correcting with each job/career having a different color allowing the student to complete the le

Adding Money In my pre-K/ kindergarten classroom, we use dots to help us learn to add money. The dot symbolizes 5 cents and we use the number one under the penny to remember to add 1. Under a nickel, your student would draw one dot because a nickel equals five cents. Under a dime, your student would draw two dots, and five dots under a quarter. Adding money is very difficult for children. To help them, practice counting by fives. Also don’t be afraid to let them practice counting real coins. Thi