Description
Bella Buys a Big Blue Bike! is an introduction to financial literacy for elementary age students and exceptional children. Join Bella on her journey from her first ‘want’ of a new bike, through valuable lessons involving money choices, to finally saving enough money to buy her bike one wonderful sunny morning.
Core Curriculum and TEKS aligned for K – 2 and Exceptional Children. Chapter activities will help your students learn the importance of money management while you discuss:
- Want’s vs. Needs
- Planning
- Making a Budget
- Identify ways to earn income
- Consider charitable giving
- See how human capital is related to work
- Distinguish between spending and savings
- Producers, consumers and profit for a small business
- And finally, success and owning a bike! Come along for the ride!
- COLOR INTERIOR
APPENDIX – Curriculum covered
Personal Financial Literacy.
Kindergarten:
| KA | identify ways to earn income; |
| KB | differentiate between money received as income and money received as gifts; |
| KC | list simple skills required for jobs; |
| KD | distinguish between wants and needs and identify income as a source to meet one’s wants and needs. |
| Grade 1 | |
| 1A | define money earned as income; |
| 1B | identify income as a means of obtaining goods and services, oftentimes making choices between wants and needs; |
| 1C | distinguish between spending and saving; and |
| 1D | consider charitable giving. |
| Grade 2 | |
| 2A | calculate how money saved can accumulate into a larger amount over time; |
| 2B | explain that saving is an alternative to spending; |
| 2C | distinguish between a deposit and a withdrawal; |
| 2D | identify examples of borrowing and distinguish between responsible and irresponsible borrowing; |
| 2E | identify examples of lending and use concepts of benefits and costs to evaluate lending decisions; and |
| 2F | differentiate between producers and consumers and calculate the cost to produce a simple item. |
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