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Second Grade - Language Arts
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Charge!
Financial and Economic Concepts: Loans and borrowing money, including interest, credit card debt, predatory lending, and payday loans
Second Grade – Language Arts
Standard 2: Oral Language Students develop language for the purpose of effectively communicating through listening, speaking, viewing, and presenting.
Objective 1: Develop language through listening and speaking.
Ask students to take home the worksheet entitled “Credit Cards.”
Credit Cards (pdf)
Have a class discussion about the answers to the questions. Be sure to explain that the person using the credit card will eventually have to pay for the items purchased and often with a service or finance charge added.
Using a VENN Diagram, compare the similarities and differences between buying with a credit card and purchasing with money saved.
Country Bears Good Neighbor
Financial and Economic Concepts: Loans and borrowing money, including interest, credit card debt, predatory lending, and payday loans Second Grade – Language Arts
Standard 7: Comprehension Students understand, interpret, and analyze narrative and informational grade level text.
Objective 2: Apply strategies to comprehend text.
Objective 3: Recognize and use features of narrative and informational text.
Art Activity:
Time: 30 Minutes
Materials: paper, crayons, pictures of the items borrowed by Country Bear as listed in the story (see PPT, either display the PPT on a screen or print the slides to display on the board.) or bring the items in the story from home.
Have students fold their paper into 8ths and number each square. Discuss the order in which Country Bear borrowed each item, placing the picture or item in order on the table or chalkboard at the front of the class. Have students draw a picture of each item IN ORDER, in each square on their paper.
Students will learn the importance of being a responsible borrower and lender as they learn about Country Bear who continually borrowed items from his neighbor who became concerned until Country Bear surprised her with a cake he had baked using the borrowed items! This fun activity will teach students about borrowing and lending to be able to complete an art project.
Complete Lesson Plan (pdf)
