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Captain Allowance

Price: $2.99, format: 7 page PDF, grades: K,1,2,3,4,5

This series related to Financial Literacy helps young readers understand the the difference between wants and needs while reading about basic economic concepts of earning, budget planning and saving. Students will practice creating a savings plan and learn about numismatists - or coin collectors. Newspaper activities direct readers to find words to write an acrostic poem and numbers to solve a number puzzle. Internet links include games for coin collecting and counting.

In this issue students will:

• practice creating a budget to save for a special item
• learn about numismatists and why they collect coins
• use the newspaper to locate descriptive words and numbers to solve a number puzzle
• use the internet to learn to make change, count coins, and set up a savings plan