Bank Center

During a unit on communities we might set up a Bank Center in the Math Area.  In this center children can practice counting and using money as they explore and learn about the workings of a bank.

Materials & Resources

Literacy Support

Dramatic Play Props:

Children can make pretend money, credit cards, cash register, purses, wallets, teller vests,

Oral language

Literacy skills-role-play/story telling, understanding plot, character, and setting Writing Skills- inventive spelling

Literacy Props:

Clipboards, pencils, paper, schedule book, check books, savings accounts books,

Functional use of print- writing in a check book, making receipts, recording names and how much money they have, making money, writing in a schedule

Oral language- vocabulary

Literacy skills- role-play/story telling, understanding plot, character, and setting Emergent writing- bank signs

Environmental Print:

Play Money

Bank Sign

Coins Poster

Teller Name Signs

Drive Up Sign

Concepts of print

Emergent Reading

Functional use of print

Alphabet recognition

Phonemic awareness

Other Print:

Magazines and newspapers in the waiting room

Create interest in reading

Model reading a variety of text

Books:

Children’s Books:

If You Made A Million by: David Schwartz

On Beyond A Million by: David Schwartz 

Oral Language- vocabulary

Concepts of print- parts of a book Literacy skills- role-play/story telling, understanding plot, character, and setting, problem solving, and critical thinking

Functional use of print

Alphabet recognition

Phonemic awareness