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T Thrifty,
hr ifft y , I’m
I ’ m doing really
r ea ally
GREA
AT a at t sa
ving m
money!
GREAT
saving
my y m
I k
knew
n ew y you
ou could
c ould
d
it , F Fritter!
r itt er!
do it,
I It’s
t ’ s e exciting
x citing just
watching
w a t ching y your
our
grow
money g
r o w and
d
grow
grow,
g
r o w and g
r ow
w ,
isn’t ’ t it?
isn
Fritter is trying to save $10
per month
mo onth so that he can have
enough h money next summer
to go to
t the Six Wags
W a ags
Amuse
ement Park
Amusement
Grow?
G
r ow ? Ho
How
w do y you
ou make
dollars lar
ger? G
ee , all m
larger?
Gee,
my y
money is still the sam
me siz
same
size e
as r regular
egular mone
ey .
money.
Uhhh,
forget
f or
o ge
I said
an ythi
anything
and ju
just
keep
sa
vin
saving,
F Fritter!
r itt e
Fritter has been putting the
money y he is earning into a
savings account which earns
him money called interest!
Talk with your family
about times you’ve
had to all save money
to do something or ge
something. Talk abou t
spending mistakes t
that have been made
and what was learned
from them.
Work
W
ork
o with a family member
to come up with solutions to
these challenges.
E Evan
v an collects
c ollec ts stickers from
fr om
grocery
store
the g
r oc er y st
or e vending
v ending
machine
osts
machine. . Each one c costs
50
0¢. He buys
buy s one each time his
50¢.
family
fa
amily shops,
shopss , which is usually
th
hr ee times a w
eek .
three
week.
E Evan
v an ear
ns $3.00 a
earns
w pulling weeds
week
w eeds
neighbor ’ s yard,
y ar d ,
in his neighbor’s
so he spends half of his
eek on
money y each w
week
v es the
stickers s and sa
saves
bank .
rest in his piggy bank.
eek , the g
r oc er y st
or e
This week,
grocery
store
ed the old sticker machine
replaced
br and new one
he
with a brand
one. . T The
ers are
ar e bigger
ost
stickers
bigger, r , but they c cost
eee , he
’ll
$1.00 0 each. I If f he buy
buys s thr
three,
he’ll
nd all his money every
ev er y week.
w eek .
spend
When Fritter puts money
mo oney into his
savings account, that t is called a
t . When he takes
tak
akes money out
deposit.
avings accoun
nt, that is called
of his savings
account,
drawal .
a withdrawal.
ample, looking g at his savings
For example,
book you can
ca an see that Fritter
account t book,
ed $5.00 that he earned doing
deposited
15 5 You
Yo can also
chores on October 15.
see that he made a withdrawal of
$7.00 on October 18.
nt money on this week. Is there
the ere anything you think he could
cou uld have done without?
Look at what Fritter spen
spent
didn’ t buy
b two or more things on the
th he list?
How much money would d he have saved if he didn’t
socks: $3.50
movie
mo
vie tick
ticket:
et: $9.00
oranges:
or
anges: $1.99
$
lar ge popcorn:
popc orn: $6.50
large
pupp y pops: $12
5 puppy
t toothbrush:
oothbr ush: $2.50
2 c comic
omic books: $4.00
Circle every other lett
letter
ter to discover a very easy way
w you can
help your family y save some money every month.
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Standards Link: Reading Comprehension:
Comp
prehension: Follow simple written directions.
direct ions.
Small
S
m al l l t to
o L
Large
a rg e
Find six amounts of mone
money
ey in today’s
today’ s paper.
paper .
Look at the advertisements
advertisement ts and news articles,
too. Cut them out and glue
glu ue them onto a piece
of paper from smallest value
va alue to largest
lar gest value.
Standards Link: Research: Use the new
newspaper
wspaper to locate information.
2 packets
pack ets of candy:
c andy : $6.00
WITHD
WITHDRAWAL
DRA
AW AL
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INTEREST
INTERE
EST
BALANCES
BALAN
NCES
MISTAKES
MIST
TA
AKES
DEPOS
SIT
DEPOSIT
ACCOU
UNT
ACCOUNT
SAVINGS
SA
A VING
V GS
CHORE
ES
CHORES
PARENT
P
A
AREN
NT
MONEY
Y
MONTH
H
PLAN
BANK
BOOK
PAY
S
PAYS
M
Maria
ar ia walks
w alks and f feeds
eeds
e her
A
un t M
er edith ’ s dog
Aunt
Meredith’s
dog, ,
Zinger, r, ev
every
day y af
after
Zinger
er y da
f t er
school.
Maria
sc
chool . M
ar ia gets $2.00 per day
da y
f for
o tak
or
ing such good car
taking
care e of
Zinger.
Zi
ingerr.
Newspaper
p p
Scavenger
g
S
Hunt t
H
Find these things in
t today’s
today’
d ’ s newspaper:
a numeral over
1,000
a numeral between
10 and 100
a telephone number
an address
a zip code
an age
Maria
that t c costs
M
ar ia wants
w an ts a new bike tha
osts
$75.
saved
$7
75. I If f she sa
v ed all her money y
ea
ach w
eek , she c could
ould
each
week,
buy
bu
uy the bike in
about
ab
bout two
t w o months.
mon ths .
But
Maria
Bu
ut M
ar ia down-
do
o wn-
loads
lo
oads music from
fr om
her
favorite
he
er fa
v or it e bands
a at t $1.30 per song
a c couple
ouple times a
week.
w
eek . She also
buys
bu
uy s a smoothie f for
o
or $3.95 on
friend
S Saturdays
a tur da y s with her fr
iend Katie.
K a tie .
movie,
S Sometimes
o
ometimes
they go t to
o a mo
vie ,
ticket. .
w
which
c costs
osts $7.00 per ticket
Standards Link: Research:
Use the newspaper to
locate information.
S A M I S T A K E S
H Y P A R E N T V G
T S E R E T N I D N
N B A N K U A P E I
O I K O O B L A P V
M N G C L M P Y O A
L A C H O R E S S S
L A W A R D H T I W
B A L A N C E S T N
This week’
week’s s word:
ACCOUNT
The noun account means a
record of money received
and money paid out
out.
I had saved money in my
account after doing chores.
Try
T
r ry to use the word account in
a sentence today when talking
with your friends and family.
family .
Exaggerate!
Think of your best
exaggeration. For example:
Our Thanksgiving turkey
was so big that we couldn’t
fit it through the door.