Make Your Choices Count
Parents have your kids read the lyrics to the Sammy Rabbit money song titled, Make Your Choices Count!
Music is a fun, easy and time efficient way to talk to and teach kids about money! It is also a Sammyriffic way to celebrate great money habits. Music and singing bring joy and energy to the money lesson learning process.
7 Step Money Lesson for Kids Who Like Music on Making Choices Count
Here are seven simple steps that will have parents, teachers and trainers talking to and teaching young kids about money and making their choices count in no time at all!
Step 1. Read Song Lyrics Together
CHORUS
Corn or flour tortillas are great
The choices we make decide our fate
No matter the size, no matter the amount
Make your choices count, make your choices count
VERSE
There was no, no better treat
No, nothing could ever beat
The one night, that one night a week
That our family went out to eat
And the waiter would say
CHORUS
Red or green salsas are great
The choices we make decide our fate
No matter the size, no matter the amount
Make your choices count, make your choices count
No question, no doubt, make your choices count
VERSE
Tamales, tortilla soup, enchiladas, tacos too
Whatever your choices, they count they do
Choices count, so think them through
CHORUS
Harina o maiz tortillas con carne asada chile y limon
Grande o chico todos sabroson
Make your choices count, make your choices count
OUTRO
Mild or hot, easy or not
Each and every day there are choices to make
From the food we eat to the friends we keep
How we use our time and how we use our dimes
I’ll make my choices count
Step 2. Listen to the Song
Now listen to the song Make Your Choices Count together. Listen as many times as you like!
Step 3. Discuss Song
The song lyrics share beginning ideas and call attention to the importance of making all choices count. This would include money choices, like saving and spending. Have a discussion with your child, children or students about the song. Ask them what lyrics from the song they like the most and why.
For example, I love the lyrics:
"No matter the size, no matter the amount; Make your choices count..."
"...Each and every day there are choices to make; From the food we eat to the friends we keep; How we use our time and how we use our dimes..."
Step 4. Activities
If you are a premium Sammy Rabbit Money School member, have your child, children or students complete one or all of the activities that accompany the song Make Your Choices Count!
If you are not a premium School member, join. This is a wonderful way to support Sammy's mission to bring financial literacy education to kids and families across the world.
If you are Free member, listen to more music from Sammy's Song Series. And keep having discussions with your parents and teachers about the money habits shared in the songs.
Step 5. Review and Discuss Activities
After your child, children or students has completed the activities for the song Make Your Choices Count, review and discuss them together.
Step 6. Deposits
Applied knowledge is powerful and life transforming.
Give your child or children opportunities to earn and save money.
Make a deposit with your child or children into a piggy bank, savings jar or into a savings account at the financial institution of your choice. Get them in the habit of earning and saving money. Oh yes!
Have your child deposit the activities they complete into their Dream Big Journal!
Step 7. Keep Learning
Sammy Rabbit says:
Always be learning! You can do it. Now, get to it! Have a Sammyriffic time!
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