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Cha-Ching: Grow Money

From Cha-Ching Money Smart Kids · 2011

Cha-Ching: Grow Money
3 min2nd3rd4th5thSocial Studies
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Summary

In this Cha-Ching Money Smart Kids song, money you save can grow over time, especially when a bank adds interest to 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.

  1. How can money grow when you leave it in a bank?
  2. Why does saving over a long time help your money grow more?
  3. What is something big you would like to save and grow your money for?

Quick work-a-long

Money words: save, grow, bank, interest, patient.

Try it: Pick a savings goal and its price, then figure out how many weeks of saving $2 it would take to reach it.