After writing about financial education for kids the past two years the act is now going into the classroom. Starting this fall I will try out the Hooey Savvy material on kids in the first to third grade every other Friday after school. This blog will follow the class. More bluntly, it will find out if this material works at all. If it doesn't, it will document my attempts to adapt it on the fly.
The first major hurdle is this Thursday evening when students pick which after school programs they want to participate in this fall. Traditionally, the most popular programs have been art and cooking. Deservedly so. Both programs allow the students to actively participate and to go home with something they've created in their hands or in their tummies.
How do I talk kids into learning about financial education without bribing them or telling them we're going to make counterfeit bills? By not making it primarily about money or education. No, this is about catchy lyrics and killer dance moves. Every class we'll come up with a song about a specific topic (week one is Move It Or Lose It, aka The Budget Dance), put dance moves to it and then record it for kicks.
Mistakes will be made this fall, but hopefully they'll be fun ones that we can brush off our shoulders and learn from to the make the material better for the next group.
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