SIUSLAW NEWS ❚ WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 2017
© 2017 by Vicki Whiting, Editor
Jeff Schinkel, Graphics
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Vol. 33, No. 42
Fritter’s jacket doesn’t have a
zipper. It has stripes, but not
on the sleeves. It has less
than seven buttons.
Ask a family member to give you:
• 4 nouns
• 2 adjectives
• 1 verb
• 10 plural nouns
Use these words to to fill in the
blanks in this story. Then, read
the silly story you created aloud
together for lots of laughs!
Roger is a collector of ________
_________________. As you
can imagine, such a collection is
quite expensive.
To save money, Roger always
looks for the best ________
when shopping. He’ll often
wed in order.
Number the steps Fritter follo
between products to see which
First, I set a goal to save the
money to buy it. The jacket I
wanted cost $60.
In all, I repeated the
goal of saving $10 six
times. And that’s how
I saved $60!
compare ________________
one is a better ____________.
$60 seemed like
an enormous
amount of money.
But my pal
Thrifty told me to
think of the $60
as a series of
smaller goals.
At the grocery store, he doesn’t
just fill his basket with a lot of
___________. Instead, he writes
a _________ and brings it with
him. He clips ____________
So I made a goal to
save just $10 at first.
After that, I made the
goal to save $10 again.
out of the newspaper to save
money. He checks the
newspaper’s website for special
______________, too.
Put a check next to each job Fritter did to earn $10 to put in his piggy bank each week.
If you check the right boxes, they add up to exactly $10.
Mowed the lawn: $3
Fed our neighbor’s bird: $1
Took out the trash: $1
Recycled bottles and cans: $3
Roger buys ___________ in
bulk. He will _________ them
Sold lemonade: $4
Raked leaves: $2
with his friends and family if he
has extras. He saves money by
What is a big goal you would like to achieve?
Is it saving money, improving how well you play
a sport or completing a big homework project?
choosing _____________
_____________ instead of more
expensive _________________.
My Goal:
Break your goal into smaller goals:
First:
Second:
Third:
Fourth:
It might take more than four steps, or repeating some steps,
to reach a bigger goal. Don’t give up!
Look through the
newspaper for five
or more numbers that
show a price. Cut out
each price and glue
onto a sheet of paper
in order from
smallest to largest.
Round each number
to the nearest 100 and
write that number
next to each price.
Standards Link: Number Sense:
Add sums up to 100.
Roger also checks the classified
ads for ________________ when
he needs new ones. He bought a
very reliable car that way that
doesn’t use a lot of __________.
“Thanks to the money I’ve saved
with the newspaper, I am about to
start a new collection of rare
_______________________!”
Without using any of the coins below twice,
circle the coins that add up to:
28¢
29¢
31¢
Standards Link: Math: Students compute money sums.
Look through the newspaper to find the
names of banks and credit unions in your
community. Make a chart with their names,
addresses and the interest rates they offer
on their savings accounts.
Standards Link: Research: Use the newspaper to locate information.
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says Roger happily.
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This week’s word:
FRITTER
The verb fritter means to
waste time, money or energy.
Don’t fritter away your
hard-earned money on
junk food.
Try to use the word fritter
in a sentence today when
talking with your friends
and family.
What do you do when you
get angry? Do you try to
calm down or “cool off”?
How do you do this?