straight. She is using the 300 points she earned to buy a new video game. Is that saving, sharing or spending? Save, Sha
MyJobChart.com Note to Educators: What is MyJobChart.com? MyJobChart.com is the perfect fit for today’s busy parents and their tech savvy children. It is an online job chart and reward system that helps to instill a strong work ethic in kids of all ages. Parents can set up chores and responsibilities for their children and assign points values to them. As the child completes their chores, they log on to the site and check off completed jobs. Over time, children earn points that they can decide to spend on a reward, save in bank account, or share with a charity. It’s a great curricular tie-in to the character trait of responsibility and your study of money, economics, wants and needs, and even community helpers.
School to Home Connection Doing chores or helping out at home is a great way to practice the character trait of responsibility. Sometimes it’s hard to remember exactly what we are supposed to do to help out. Sometimes it’s just not fun to do things like cleaning out the cat box or making your bed. Luckily, there’s a great new way to motivate kids to do their chores! The best part is that you can earn points for showing responsibility at home and those points turn into money that you can really save, share with a charity or spend on a reward that you want! At home, have an adult help you log on to MyJobChart.com and create an account. Discuss what chores you will do during the day and at night. Then decide how many points each job will be worth. Be sure to choose a password you’ll remember so it’s easy to keep track of your progress. If you can’t use a computer, then check out this job chart below. It looks just like what you’ll see online. Fill in the jobs you will do every day and night. Be sure to add your picture!
Note to Educators: How to use Save, Share or Spend Task Cards Young children may not clearly understand the difference between saving, sharing, and spending the money they earn using MyJobChart.com. These cards are designed to facilitate a discussion with students about real life scenarios related to the concept. They may be used in several different ways: • Choose one card, read aloud and elicit student responses. Be sure to have them explain why they believe their answer is correct. • Arrange students in groups. Give each group a card or two to discuss. Then have one child from each group read their card to the whole group and share what they discussed. • As a center, give students all of the cards and have them categorize according to ‘save, share, or spend’. • After sharing the cards in any of the above ways, have the students work together to make their own cards for the class to discuss.
Save, Share or Spend?
Save, Share or Spend?
Grant has decided not to buy anything right now and he’s already made a donation to Make a Wish, so he decides to put some money in the bank.
Sami is donating $5.00 to the American Heart Society in honor of her Grandmother.
Is that saving, sharing or spending?
Is that saving, sharing or spending?
Save, Share or Spend?
Save, Share or Spend?
Celia has been doing all of her chores and has earned enough to buy a new set of headphones. She’s ordering them today.
Brandon has 500 points. He is going to use them to send money to the Polar Bear Survival Program.
Is that saving, sharing or spending?
Is that saving, sharing or spending?
Save, Share or Spend?
Save, Share or Spend?
Lexie did her chores for two weeks straight. She is using the 300 points she earned to buy a new video game.
Luke loves his laptop, so he’s going to send some of the money he earned to the One Laptop per Child charity so he can help other kids get a laptop.
Is that saving, sharing or spending?
Is that saving, sharing or spending?
Save, Share or Spend?
Save, Share or Spend?
Michael wants to use his own money Leo has a lot of points and has decided to buy his mom a special birthday to put some money in the bank to add present, so he is using points he to his college fund earned to order her a picture frame. . Is that saving, sharing or spending?
Is that saving, sharing or spending?
Note to Educators: How to use Emily’s Job Chart Problem Solving The pictures on the printable are examples from MyJobChart.com. Students will refer to the pictures to answer the questions about what Emily will earn from doing all of her chores over one day, over an extended time, and for only partially completing her chores. • Very young students may need assistance working with larger numbers to the hundreds place. If this is the case, you my consider working on them whole group or allowing the students to use a calculator. • This printable would also make a great homework assignment, especially if your PTA/PTO has already introduced MyJobChart.com to the parent community. • Consider having older buddy classes work with younger students to work out the more difficult problems.
Name: The pictures below are Emily’s daytime and evening job charts. Use them to answer the questions.
1. If Emily does all of her chores today, how many points will she earn altogether?
2. If Emily earns the same amount of points every day, how many points will she have in one week?
3. How many points would Emily have if she did all of her chores except work on her book report?
4. How many points will Emily earn 5. How many points will Emily earn by feeding her pets today? by cleaning her bedroom and the fish tank today ?
6. How many days will Emily have to complete all of her chores to earn 500 points she needs to buy a new sweater?
7. Emily needs 50 points to choose the game for family game night. Will she earn enough by doing today’s chores?
9. Emily is going to add walking the dog to her evening jobs. How many points should that be worth?
8. If Emily already has 200 points, will the points she earns today give her enough to spend 300 points on a new book?
These supplemental materials were inspired by MyJobChart.com, a site that is teaching hundreds of thousands of children that working hard can have meaningful benefits. The materials were created by Denise Boehm @ SunnyDaysBlog.com where you can find even more engaging activities for school and home.
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