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Pretend you are a piggy bank and shake yourself. Can you

hear the jingle of coins? Shake to the left!

Shake to the right!

Toss ten coins onto the sidewalk. Can you hop from coin to coin, standing on one

foot? Next, do deep knee bends to pick them all up!

Try to do ten sit-ups while balancing three coins on your head. Now have a friend try. Could either of you do it?

Try to walk across your yard with a dollar bill on your

head. It’ll take some smooth moves to keep the dollar from

dropping!

Look at one page of the newspaper.

Add up all the money amounts you can find in

articles or advertisements.

Then have a friend try using another page. Who had the

most “valuable” page?

Draw a line from each coin to one of these kids’ piggy banks. Fill each bank with the correct amount of change. There should be no

coins left over when the banks are filled.

Standards Link: Math: Calculate sums

using money amounts.

Standards Link: Math: Students understand percent and interest.

© 2012 by Vicki Whiting, Editor Jeff Schinkel, Graphics Vol. 28, No. 44

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credit union is a part of a community. Groups of people who work together, go to school together or just live in the same community can be part of a credit union.

A credit union is a place to save and borrow money.

A credit union does a lot of the same things a bank does. The difference is that a credit union is owned by ALL the people who save their money in it.

If you become a member of a credit union, you are also an owner. If you deposit money into a bank, you are a customer, but not an owner.

Let’s say you want to borrow $100 from a credit union. The credit union would require you to pay back the $100 plus some extra money, called interest. Paying interest is like paying a fee for your loan. The interest rate tells what percentage of the original amount borrowed will be charged for one year of borrowing.

Credit unions are not-for-profit organizations, which means that any profits earned are returned to members by offering lower interest rates and fees. Put this change in

the piggy bank.

Here is a $100 loan at 5% interest. It’s divided up into 12 payments. Add up all the payments to see how much the loan would cost.

Here is a $100 loan at 10% interest. It’s divided up into 12 payments. Add up all the payments to see how much this loan would cost.

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Find the words in the puzzle. Then look for each word in this week’s Kid Scoop stories and activities.

Standards Link: Letter sequencing. Recognized identical words. Skim and scan reading. Recall spelling patterns.

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Imagine that you have $100. You must save half of it, spend 40% of it and donate 10% to your favorite charity.

Write about it!

Our 2nd grade goals!Our 2nd grade goals!

To move my behavior clip to “outstanding”To clean my desk -Cheyenne

To get better at telling timeTo be better at math -Asher

To get better at FASTTMath on the computerTo improve on my math journal -Sarah

I want to spell words betterI want to count money -Keaton

To get better at playing math gamesTo get better at reading -Travis

To learn more vocabulary wordsTo be better at skip counting -Bridger

To learn place valueI want to learn about money. -Haley

To improve my writingTo be better at FASTTMath on the computer -Ben

To get better at math subtracting and addingTo improve skip counting by 3’s -Camryn

I want to get better at FASTTMath I want to get better at reading -Jack B.

I want to be better at mathI want to be better at science -Carter

My second grade goal is to count by 100’sMy second grade goal is to subtract -Cole

My goal is to learn to count moneyMy goal in science is to learn a lot about caterpillars -Elizabeth

I want to learn English moreI want to learn Spanish more -Angela

To be goodTo be nice -Jack G.

To get a lot of math doneTo get a lot of reading done -Quintin

My goal is to read 20 minutes each day to get faster at readingMy goal is to get faster at FASTTMath -Ryan

My goal is to be a good listenerMy goal is to read a whole chapter book -Shahrukh

To get better at telling timeTo do lots of math booklets -Cambria

I need help reading fasterI need help to do FASTTMath -Austyn

To improve in math because I want to countTo learn how to read the clock -Ava