12A COTTAGE GROVE SENTINEL NOVEMBER 1, 2017
© 2017 by Vicki Whiting, Editor Jeff Schinkel, Graphics Vol. 33, No. 47
Amy tried to trade her
cookie for Andy’s
apple.
Dexter
traded his
yo-yo for
Natasha’s
comic books.
Before money was invented, people traded with each other
for goods and services. But trading wasn’t always easy.
Imagine if what you
had to trade was milk.
On a hot day your milk
could spoil and you
would be out of luck.
1. A way to make money:
What: __________________
________________________
Lulu
traded her
kite for
Lexie’s
crayons.
If you were a doctor and all your
patients wanted to pay you in
eggs, you could end up
with more eggs than
you could ever use.
Look through the newspaper to
find each of the following things.
Be sure to write down each page
number on which it appears and
then write a sentence describing
what you found.
Page # __________________
Sentence: _______________
________________________
________________________
2. An ad placed by someone
to sell something:
What: __________________
________________________
Or, what if you
had rocks to trade?
They could be very
heavy to carry around
the market.
ver the years, people tried
using different kinds of
things as money such as shells,
feathers and beads. Small lumps
of metal such as gold and silver
became popular because they were
easy to carry. But they had to be
weighed every time they were used.
Around 700 B.C., King Croesus of
Lydia (present day Turkey) had the
idea of stamping metal into coins.
About 500 years later, the Chinese
invented paper money.
Page # __________________
Sentence: _______________
________________________
________________________
You have $1.50 to spend. You need to save 50¢
to buy the newspaper on the way home. Circle all
the treats you could buy at the bakery.
(There’s more than one way to do this.)
3. An ad placed by someone
looking for work:
What: __________________
________________________
Page # __________________
Throughout history,
coins have come in many
different shapes and sizes.
Sentence: _______________
________________________
________________________
Only two of these coins
match. Can you find them?
4. A news story that mentions
money:
Standards Link: Economics: Students
know that different countries use different
currencies to exchange goods and services.
What: __________________
________________________
Page # __________________
Sentence: _______________
________________________
________________________
Each picture below represents a slang word for money.
Can you guess what each one is?
Standards Link: Research: Use the newspaper
to locate information.
Ever hear “A penny saved is
a penny earned”? Well, to
become a millionaire, you’d
have to save lots of pennies!
In fact, a stack of pennies
equaling a million dollars
would rise 95 miles high!
Look for the price
of the newspaper
on the front page.
Draw the coins you
need to pay for the
newspaper. How
many different
combinations of
coins could you
exchange to pay
for the paper?
If you stacked all of the
pennies made in the U.S. in
one year, you would get a
stack more than 6,000 miles
high!
Can you divide this grid into four parts in which each part has
the same amount of money?
20
10
5
1
5
5
5
10
10
5
5
20
10
1
5
1
1
1
1
1
10
10
20
1
10
1
5
5
10
5
1
5
5
5
5
20
Standards Link: Mathematical Reasoning: Solve problems using logic.
Rounding Off
Find items for sale in the newspaper that
are advertised for more than $100 but less
than $1,000. Paste them on a paper. Round
the figures to the nearest $100 and write
each new number by the pasted figure.
PENNIES
MONEY
TRADE
CROESUS
LYDIA
GOLD
TOWER
SILVER
EGGS
SHELLS
BEADS
PATIENTS
EASY
TURKEY
WORD
Standards Link:
Measurement: Solve real
world problems involving
computation with cents.
Find the words by looking up,
down, backwards, forwards,
sideways and diagonally.
… donating money to worthy
charities.
E P E N S D A E B J
O A S Y R I
T S H E
This week’s word:
Y T S E D E G S C E
E
I R Y I G W R M S
K E L A E N O O M L
R N O N D E N L T L
U T E R S E Y E D E
T S O U Y G A M P H
E W S
I
L V E R S S
Standards Link: Letter sequencing. Recongized identical
words. Skim and scan reading. Recall spelling patterns.
EXCHANGE
The verb exchange means
to give, take or trade one
thing in return for another.
Tanya decided to exchange
the sweater her mother sent
for one that was a better fit.
Try to use the word
exchange in a sentence
today when talking with
your friends and family.
Halloween Jokes
& Riddles
Share with your friends
your favorite Halloween
jokes and riddles.
Standards Link: Number Sense: Use specific strategies (e.g.,
rounding) to estimate computations.
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