Five pages about how people earn money. On page 1 each job is shown by its hat or tool with its name (firefighter, mail carrier, farmer, dentist, builder, vet), and students draw a line to the work it does, like puts out fires or brings the mail. Page 2 has seven short sentences about a child who got money, from walking a dog or selling lemonade to a birthday present, and students circle earned or gift. Page 3 shows a job and two skills as pictures, and students circle the skill the job needs: a chef needs cooking, a bus driver needs driving. On page 4 each child did a chore, and students count the pennies, nickels, dimes or dollar bills they earned. Page 5 explains that income is money you earn by working: students circle the income of two ways a child got money, then add two incomes. The first problem on every page is done as an example.
Start with a picture walk: show a firefighter's helmet, a mail carrier's bag and a chef's hat and ask who uses each one and what work they do. Make a class list of jobs people in the students' families do. Read the sentences on pages 2 and 5 aloud, and ask for each one: did the child do work to get it? Keep a jar of play coins and dollar bills at the table for page 4.
Talk about the jobs people in your family and neighborhood do, and what each one needs to know. When your child helps with a chore, talk about how grown-ups earn money by working. If your child gets money as a present, talk about how that is a gift, not income, because no work was done for it.
This pack supports the following Common Core State Standards for Mathematics:
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A 5-page jobs and earning money pack for kindergarten and 1st grade. Draw a line from each job, shown by its hat or tool, to the work it does, then read short sentences about money a child got and circle earned or gift. Circle the skill a job needs, count the pennies, nickels, dimes and dollar bills each child earned for a chore, and circle the income before adding two incomes. Every page comes in color and in black and white. Answer keys included.
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