Money
Poem
Penny, penny, easy spent,
Copper brown and worth one cent.
Nickel, nickel, thick and fat,
You’re worth 5. I know that.
Dime, dime, little and thin,
I remember—you’re worth 10.
Quarter, quarter, big and bold,
You’re worth 25, I am told.
Half a dollar, half a dollar,
Giant size.
50 cents to buy some fries.
Dollar, dollar, green and long,
With 100 cents you can’t go wrong.
Odd
- Even Poem
Zero, two, four, six, eight
Being even is just great.
One, three, five, seven, nine
Being odd is just fine.
Zero the
hero came to school.
Zero the hero knows a rule:
Zero the hero stays in a space,
So all the other numbers get in the right place!
Zero the
Hero came to school,
Zero the Hero, he's no fool
Zero the Hero keeps his place
so all the other numbers stay in their place
Yeah!
CLOCK
SONG
(tune Wheels on the Bus)
The hands on the clock go round and round,
Round and round, round and round.
The hands on the clock go round and round.
To tell us the time.
The short hand on the clock
Goes from number to number,
Number to number, number to number.
The short hand on the clock
Goes from number to number.
To tell us the time.
The long hand on the clock
Goes around by fives,
Around by fives, around by fives.
The long hand on the clock
Goes around by fives.
To tell us the minutes.
The
Skip Count Song
(Tune: Skip to my Lou)
Skip count, skip count, count by 2's
Skip count, skip count, count by 2's
Skip count, skip count, count by 2's
We can count to 20.
2, 4, 6, 8, 10,12,14,16, 18, 20 (chant this line)
Skip count, skip count, count by 5's
Skip count, skip count, count by 5's
Skip count, skip count, count by 5's
We can count to 50.
5, 10, 15, 20, (up to 50)
Skip count, skip count, count by 10's
Skip count, skip count, count by 10's
Skip count, skip count, count by 10's
We can count to 100.
10, 20, 30, 40, (up to 100)
Money Rap
Well I know a song
It's
really kind of funny
It's all about coins
And learning to count money
Pennies, nickels, dimes and quarters
Pennies, nickels, dimes and quarters
Now a penny means one (hold out 1
finger)
And a nickel means five (hold out 5
fingers)
Dimes are worth ten (hold out 10
fingers)
And quarters twenty five (flash... 10
twice & then 5)
Pennies, nickels, dimes and quarters
Pennies, nickels, dimes and quarters
Five pennies in a nickel (hold out 1
hand- fingers
stretched)
Two nickels in a dime (hold out 2
fingers)
Five nickels in a quarter (hold out 1
hand - fingers
stretched)
You'll know it every time! (using
both hands do a
downward motion)
Pennies, nickels, dimes and quarters
Pennies, nickels, dimes and quarters
Yeah!!!
Smart
My dad have me one dollar bill
"Cause I'm his smartest son,
And I swapped it for two shiny quarters
"Cause two is more than one!
And then I took the quarters
and traded them to Lou
For three dimes--I guess he don't know
That three is more than two!
Just then, along came old blind Bates
And just 'cause he can't see
He gave me four nickels for my three dimes,
And four is more than three!
And I took the nickels to Hiram Coombs
Down at the seed-feed store,
And the fool gave me five pennies for them,
And five is more than four!
And then I went and showed my dad,
And he got red in the cheeks
And closed his eyes and shook his head-
Too proud of me to speak!
By: Shel Silverstein
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Marvelous Math
How fast does a New York taxi go?
What size is grandpa's attic?
How old is the oldest dinosaur?
The answer's in Mathematics!
How many seconds in an hour?
How many in a day?
What size are the planets in the sky?
How far to the Milky Way?
How fast does lightning travel?
How slow do feathers fall?
How many miles to Istanbul?
Mathematics knows it all!
By: Rebecca Kai Dotlich
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