Some By List.......

Date:         Fri, 18 Oct 1996 22:52:37 -0400
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Poster:       Patricia Weeg 
Subject:      MONEY: prices in Norway
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More about Norwegian money from our friends at Eydehavn School.
Patti
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Date: Thu, 17 Oct 1996 09:25:14 +0100
From: 6 Graders at Eydehavn 
To: Patricia Weeg 

The money: 50Nkr is the green one, 100Nkr is the red one and
 500 Nkr is the blue one...
Our pizza is about $5 if you buy one in the store to take home...
If you go to a take-away place to get one, it's about $15 for a quite 
large one....

A 1,5 liter of Coke is about $2.A box of ice cream is (2 liter) $3
 and a ice cream cone is about $0.70
 
A McDonnald hamburger is $2.20.

A T-shirt is $9.99 to 19.99 depending on type....

So long,
6th graders & Tor ARne

Date: Thu, 10 Oct 1996 15:26:00 -0300
From: Renata Blattner Podlsky 
Subject: money!!

Dear coordinators of the MONEY project,

We are teachers  from Escola Comunitaria de Campinas, SP, Brazil.

 In spite of the periods established, we are sending  you all the 
informationin one message, as we do not have much time with

 the students and November is our last month before the 

long summer holidays. We hope you don`t mind .


 Thanks and hugs,                  
Renata and Marcia.
1. Escola Comunitaria de Campinas -  5th grade - classes "C " and  "D".
2. age : 11.
3.astride@ecc.br
4. R. Egberto Ferreira de Arruda Camargo, 650 -
   Jd. Notre Dame   CEP: 13.130-461 - Campinas - SP 
5. Brazil
6. Real
7. Portuguese
8. Yes
9. BothTeachers : Renata Podolsky and Marcia Barroso

Here are the answers to the four KIDLINK questions :

1. The currency in our country has passed through different stages and had
    different names, like REIS, TOSTAO, CRUZEIRO, CRUZEIRO NOVO,
    CRUZADO, CRUZEIRO and CRUZEIRO REAL. All these changes 
   happened because of the high inflation we always had.


2. The currency in Brazil today is REAL and CENTAVOS (cents),
     and it is the only one that has been able to hold inflation back  	lately..

3. One REAL = 1.02 dollar.

4. Here are prices of some things in Brazil :

One pizza : R$ 10,00
One individual bottle of coke : R$ 0,70.
One ice cream : R$ 1,00.
One hamburger : R$ 4,00.
One T-shirt : R$ 12,00.
One k sugar : R$ 0,35.
One small loaf of bread (50 grams) : R$ 0,12.
One chocolate bar : R$ 0,80.
Four rolls of toilet paper : R$ 1,32.
One bubble gum : R$ 0,15.
One liter of milk : R$ 0,85.
One chocolate bar : R$ 0,80.
One bag of pop corn : R$ 0,50.
One  CD : R$ 20,00.
One new car : R$ 20.000,00.
One hot dog : R$ 2,00. 
One pen : R$ 0,40. 
One soccer ball : R$ 10,00.
One pen : R$ 0,40.
Five kilos of rice : R$ 3,45.
One kilo of wheat flour : r$ 0,75
One pack of powder coffee : R$ 3,49.
One kilo of beef : R$ 8,00.-

For a reasonably good life, you need at least R$ 1.500,00 a month.- 
The minimum wage in Brazil is R$ 112,00.  It is the least   
that an employer has to pay to every employee.

Date:         Tue, 15 Oct 1996 22:51:03 -0400
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Poster:       Patricia Weeg 
Subject:      MONEY: Pizza all over the world
--------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dear kids in Mrs. Renata and Marcia's class,   

Your pizza is the same amount of money in the  United States of America.
  A 2 liter of Coke would be $1.09.
   Do you mean a box of ice cream or a ice cream cone?
  A box of ice cream is about $4.99 and a ice cream cone is about $0.69.
 A hamburger is $2.00.
  
 A T-shirt is $9.99.                

Your friend from Delmar Elem. School,
                   Levin Hitchens

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Date:         Mon, 4 Nov 1996 08:59:12 -0300
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Poster:       Escola Alexandre Leal Costa 
Subject:      Projeto Money
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Oi pessoal, 

aqui em Salvador-Bahia-Brasil existe muita variacao dosprecos de varios
 
itens que foram pedidos na pesquisa. A depender do localde venda eles 

terao um aumento de ateh 100% ou mais, iremos portanto dar osprecos das 
medias que tiramos: -

 
Refrigerante (coca-cola) : R$ 0,70 (setenta centavos) - 

Cachorro-quente (hot-dog) : R$ 0,50 (cinquenta centavos) - 

Hamburger : R$ 0,90 (noventa centavos) - 

Um copo de suco : R$ 0,80 (oitenta centavos) - 

01 Kg de acucar : R$ 0,50 (cinquenta centavos) - 

01 barra de chocolate de 200gramas : R$ 1,90 (um real e noventa centavos) - 
Ingresso do cinema : R$ 7,00 (sete reais)   

obs: estudante com carteira paga metade do valor do ingresso. 

Oscinemas tambem oferecem desconto no preco em alguns dias determinados 
nasemana. 

Descontos de aproximadamente 40% - 


CD de musica : A depender do cantor : a partir de R$ 4,00 (quatroreais) para
 cantores pouco conhecidos no mercado e R$ 15,00 (quinzereais) para cantores 
famosos e R$ 35,00 (trinta e cinco reais) para CD simportados e *preciosos* 
tipo Bob Marley - 


Uma pizza *brotinho* : R$ 3,00 (tres reais) - 
Sorvete : Uma bola = R$ 0,40 (quarenta centavos) e duas bolas = R$0,70
 (setenta centavos)

Caso tenham maior interesse em ver outros itens mandem mensagens paranos,
 sera um prazer responde-las.

Kiss for you,

Cristiane e Patricia
Escola Municipal 
Dr. Alexandre Leal 
CostaSalvador - Bahia - Brasil