Cha-Ching: Back to the Budget
From Cha-Ching Money Smart Kids · 2013
3 min2nd3rd4th5thSocial Studies
Summary
In this Cha-Ching Money Smart Kids song, a budget is a plan that helps you decide how to use your money before you spend it. A lively three-minute animated music video that makes a financial-literacy idea easy to drop into a morning meeting or a social studies / economics lesson for young learners.
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Teaching resources
Discussion questions
Discussion
Use these after the song to talk through the money idea it teaches.
- What is a budget?
- How does a budget help you not run out of money?
- What would you put on a budget for your own money?
Quick work-a-long
Money words: budget, plan, income, spending, track.
Try it: Make a tiny budget: list an amount of money, then decide how much to save, spend, and donate.