1. Writing Checks & Understanding number sentences
Whitney Crnokrak
4th grade

2. Check books are a very important thing in everyday life.
Who uses checks:
Your Parents
Stores
Your School
Hospitals
Restaurants
Your Teachers
Everyone uses checks so it is very important to know how to write them.

3. What a check looks like:

4. Lets Learn How to write a check!
Your name, driver license number, and address is printed on the top left corner of the check.
This is the check number. It tells how many checks you have written.
The date goes on this line
Who the check is for goes here
The dollar amount goes here.
You write the dollar amount in a number sentence here.
This is where you put your signature.
Here you have the option of writing what the check is for.

5. Where would you write this??
This check is for Suzy Q. Smith.
Q: Where would you write that on this check??? Click on the dollar sign that you think is in the right spot.

6. Where would you write this??
Today is March 12, 2006.
Q: Where would you write that on this check??? Click on the dollar sign that you think is in the right spot.

7. Where would you write this??
Every check you write must have your personal signature on it.
Q: Where would you write that on this check??? Click on the dollar sign that you think is in the right spot.

8. Writing Number Sentences
The amount the check is for must be written in a number sentence on this line
4.52
Example: This check is for $4.52.
On the number sentence line you would write:
Four dollars and 52/100

9. Writing Number Sentences
4.52
Four dollars and 52/
Using the example from the page before we put our number sentence onto the check.
Four stands for the dollars that we are spending
52/100 means that we are spending 52 cents out of 100
(Remember that 100 cents= 1 dollar)
The line just makes sure that no one adds anything to our amount

10. Now You Try!! Seven dollars fourteen cents Seven dollars and 14/100
This check is for $7.14.
Click on the on the dollar sign next to the correct number sentence below.
7.14
Seven dollars fourteen cents
Seven dollars and 14/100
Seven and fourteen

11. Now You Try!! Ten dollars and 75/100 Ten and seventy-five
This check is for $10.75.
Click on the on the dollar sign next to the correct number sentence above.
10.75

12. Writing Checks Very Good!!!!!! The End
You now know how to write a check!
March
Suzy Q. Smith
10.75
Ten dollars and 75/
Tammy Sue Carr
Books and pencils
Click where the date belongs
Click where the signature belongs
Click where you put who it is for belongs
Click where you put the number sentence
Click where you put what it is for belongs
Click where the number amount belongs