Miss Moore was trying to show the group of children the difference between economic classes. From the story you can see that the children are from low-middle to low economic families. When they looked at the expensive toys, the children felt like they could never save enough to buy them. Miss Moore wanted to show them that unlike rich children, they would have to take more time to save their money to get what they want in life. Unlike the higher economic classes that are able to obtain things easier and more efficiently, people from a lower economic stand point(like the children in the story) have to work harder to get those things.
I believe that this was a lesson the children needed to learn because it was able to show them how much easier things are for others compared to them. Her method succeeds to a certain degree (except for the case of Sylvia who only cared about the $4). It let them see their own current economic positions and let them see even if for second(until they get interrupted by getting hurts by the others) how they would be able to reach that position someday.
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