I was going through my binder of story ideas for my monthly Kidnexions Connection newsletter and found a post-it with a story about Nathan. It’s a good thing I took the time to write the story down because I had forgotten all about it. So here’s the first in a series I’m calling ‘Flashback’ as I remember or find things my kids did when they were growing up that relates to learning about money. Sometimes we adults use vocabulary words that don’t…
I was so excited when Angie, an eight year old in one of my money classes, announced that the flyers she and her mom had passed out the week before resulted in a phone call for her pet-sitting service. And the gleam in Angie’s eyes as she described for the class how she would be feeding, walking, and playing with her two charges, a yellow lab and a golden retriever. “They’re such friendly dogs and so much fun to play with. I…
Here’s something interesting a second grader came up with when we were working on the Water Wonderland activity. I’ve written about this activity before, but for those who aren’t familiar, it’s when kids get to make spending choices and at the end of the activity those with enough money get to go to Water Wonderland. The key is that the kids don’t know about WW while they’re making choices. The point of the activity is to show kids how important our…
Every Monday I pop $5 into a special pocket of both my boys’ backpacks. The money is to cover two days of eating lunch in the school cafeteria. They could pick any two days but need to let me know in advance because, yes it’s true, I still pack their bag lunches on non-cafeteria days. One Monday I noticed that there were two dollar bills in Ryan’s special pocket. If there had been two dollars and fifty cents I wouldn’t…