Let's Pretend

Today was a quite day at home. We did school work, went swimming, and got some things ready for our beach trip.

During our money unit today we did some pretend shopping and used calculators to add up our purchases. They were given a Scholastic book order, Target, and Toys R Us sale ad. The directions were to choose 5 items they wanted to buy and to cut them out including the price. After they had done this we practiced using the calculator, they wrote down the prices, and then added them up.What was so funny was that they thought they were going to buy some of the things that they cut out. I tried to explain we were just pretending. Tonight Karly brought it up again. She was upset and said "Then why did I cut out those chapter books? I really wanted them." It was so cute and I am not sure they really understand now.