Bagging Grocery 2nd Grade Objective: The students will practice addition, subtraction, and problem solving with single digit numbers. Materials: Grocery store flash cards Grocery/lunch bags (one per student) Math journals Pencil Procedures: 1. Explain to students that we are going to pretend that they were given ten dollars to buy a few things at Wal-mart. 2. Place bags and groups of cards at each station. (Food, school supplies, toys, and miscellaneous) 3. Break up the students into four groups. Assign each group to a different station. 4. Give students instructions: At your center, take a grocery bag. At your station, pull out only things that you really need or want. Remember that you only have ten dollars. After 2 minutes, we will switch stations. And then again, two more times. From each place remember to only pick up a few things. After you drop something in your bag, you can't take it out. 5. After they have finished visiting each station, have them sit at their desks. Instruct the students to take out their cards and add up the numbers (prices) that are on the back of each card. Have them record these things in their math journals. 6. Ask them, "If your is total greater than $10, what should you do? How can you fix this problem?" They will say that they should take out things, add it up and see if it is under $10. Do this until it is under $10. 7. Ask them, "What if your total is less than $10? What could that person do?" The students will answer that the person should try to find something else cheap that they could buy. Or, some might feel that they should just save the money. Explain that both answers are good. 8. Have the students start and fix their grocery bags. They will record this in their journals also. 9. When they are starting to finish up, have them pair up and explain to each other what they bought, how much it cost, a...