Ask For Kids www.ask.com
"Ask us any question and we'll hunt for the answer."
Nick
Jr. www.nickjr.com
"Visit all your favorite Nick Jr. TV Characters-Little Bear, Blue's Clues
and more!"
Pokemon www.pokemon.com
"Visit the official Hasbro Pokemon site for games and collecting tips."
Barbie
www.barbie.com
"Visit the official Barbie Doll site to check out the latest Barbie Dolls
or send a Barbie Postcard to a friend."
Nintendo www.nintendo.com
"Visit the official Nintendo site for news, reviews and codes to your favorite
Nintendo games."
Yahoo! Kids http://kids.yahoo.com/
A browsable, searchable directory of Internet sites for kids. Fun features, including Yahoo! Kids Games, Sports, and News pages, Movies, Animals, Science, and Dinosaurs, a Reference section, Parents' and Teachers' Guides, a Cool page, and lots more.
US
Treasury's Page www.ustreas.gov/kids/ The
World of Money through
Planet Orange
www.orangekids.com Fun
Stuff For Kids www.kids.msn.com
"Fun stuff for kids at MSN."
 Money
is sort of a strange idea we all take for granted. Think about it. Money is just
little pieces of paper with designs printed on them, or even smaller pieces of
metal. Yet these “bills” and “coins” can be used to pay for
really big things… and tiny things… and everything in between. How can
that be?
Money is what we call a “medium of exchange.” That is,
it’s a tool that makes it easy for people to exchange things. For example,
money allows us to say that a certain bicycle is worth $75, a baseball cap is
worth $15, and a pack of gum is worth $1.00. To buy these items, you just have
to give the person who is selling them that much money. But without money, things
would get really complicated. If there were no money, you could only buy
a $75 bicycle by giving the person who was selling it something that’s worth
$75. For example, you would have to give them five baseball caps, or 75 packs
of gum. That’s really inconvenient. And what if the person selling the bike
doesn’t like baseball caps, or gum, or whatever it is you have to trade?
That’s not a problem with money, since you can use it to pay for anything
that’s for sale. Cool, huh?
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Here’s
some trivia you can really sink your teeth into. Check out these tasty facts about
candy! - Cavemen invented the idea of candy, or at least the idea of
a sweet treat – they used to eat honey from beehives.
- In
the Middle Ages, sugar was so expensive, only the very rich could afford to buy
candy.
- The biggest holiday for candy is Halloween. In 1998,
$950 million worth of candy was sold.
- Americans’ favorite
flavor of candy is chocolate. We like berry flavors second best.
- Candy
is made simply by dissolving sugar in water. What kind of candy you get depends
on how much heat you use. Really high temperatures result in hard candy, medium
temperatures give you soft candy and cool temperatures make chewy candy.
Q: Why shouldn’t you play basketball with a pig?
A: Because
they always hog the ball.
Q: How do you stop a dog
from barking in the back yard?
A: Put it in the front yard!
Q: How do you make a skeleton laugh?
A: Tickle its funny bone.
Q: What is a cat’s favorite color?
A:
Purr-ple.
Man: "Doctor, Doctor! I can’t remember
anything!"
Doctor: "When did this start happening?"
Man: "When did what start happening?"
Knock
knock.
Who’s there?
Lettuce.
Lettuce who?
Lettuce
in and you’ll find out!
 There
are a lot of different ways to make a dollar. A dollar is one hundred cents. So
you could have 100 pennies, 20 nickels, 10 dimes, or four quarters. You could
have two half-dollar coins, or one dollar coin. Or, of course, you could have
a regular one-dollar bill!
Next time you have a handful of change, see how
many different ways you can add up a dollar. Things really get interesting when
you use different kinds of coins. For example, ten dimes add up to a dollar, but
so do five dimes and two quarters!
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