This a book teaches students about counting money. I did this as a read aloud with my class. I read the book and as I read students made the amount of money given. They were each given a bag of coins. They had to show me the amount that was told in the book.

This book is a great book to help students learn counting coins. It is about a young girl that wants to get her face painted at the school fair. Jessie empties her pockets out and finds three dimes, one nickel, and four pennies. She only had 39 cents, but face painting costs 50 cents. The art teacher, Fran, suggests that Jessie sits and waits for other guests to come get their face painted and see if any one leaves their extra pennies in the "Penny Pot," whose purpose was to help people out like Jessie. Sure enough, a few people leave their extra change and Jessie is able to get her face painted with one penny left over to leave in the "penny pot" for the next person who is in need. There are pictures on each page of the coins that are being counted to help young children understand and see the coins as they count to see who has enough money to get their face painted. ( )

young children are at a fair and all of the activities cost a little bit of money. children have their own money and have to ocunt out the amount of what they want. There is a pot where children can put their extra pennies and if a child is short a little money they can take however pennies they need. this book is helpful for children learning how to count change and how much money each piece is worth.

A little long for pre-school storytime, great for k-3.

This book was about a girl names Jessie who wanted to get her face painted at the fair but, it cost 50 cents and she only had 39 cents. Fran, who doing the face painting, set a pot out and asked those who were getting their faces painted to put their extra pennies in the pot for someone else to use. Pretty soon there was 51 cents in the pot and Jessie was able to get her face painted. She started filling the penny pot with extra pennies again.

This book was fun to read. It brought back memories of my childhood when my grandpa would make me count change back to him. He said it was very important that I learn to count money and he was right.

For some classroom extension ideas you could have pennies, dimes, nickels and quarters on a table and have the children draw a card with an amount written on it. They would then go the table and count out that amount with the change. You could also start a “penny pot” for the class to bring their pennies from home and buy treats for the class one day a month.