This week we started our money unit. Students always love learning about money. I bought these ceramic piggy banks for students from Oriental Trading Company. When I first ordered them I had worried about them breaking during shipping and then being short a piggy bank. However you can see from the picture that they are very well packaged. For the two years that I have been doing this project not a single pig has arrived broken!
The first day students paint their pigs a solid color and the second day they decorate their pigs. They LOVE these pigs and take good care of them. The part I like best about this project is knowing they'll be practicing counting coins over and over again :). My friend Mr. Jones also did piggy banks this week. For more examples head over to his blog at First Upon a Time.