Cha-Ching: Spend Your Money Wisely, My Friend
From Cha-Ching Money Smart Kids · 2011
3 minK1st2nd3rd4thSocial Studies
Summary
In this Cha-Ching Money Smart Kids song, spending wisely means thinking about needs versus wants and getting good value for your money. 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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Discussion questions
Discussion
Use these after the song to talk through the money idea it teaches.
- What is the difference between a need and a want?
- Why should you think before you spend your money?
- What is one need and one want you can name?
Quick work-a-long
Money words: spend, wise, need, want, value.
Try it: Make a two-column chart of Needs and Wants and place five things you can think of into it.