Financial Literacy for Preschoolers
Are you keen to give your Preschoolers the best start in life?
By teaching children to be smart with money from early age we equip them with vital life skills. Kids are so ready to absorb basic money concepts from the age of 4: the more we expose them to our world and talk with them about money, the smarter they will be about their choices, wants and needs, spending and saving.
“Preschool Money Adventures!” is the foundational Financial Literacy Incursion Program every Preschooler needs. It's dynamic, engaging and filled with activities and games for active and creative brains. Money is not complex, it's simple and it's fun!
Preschools and Early Learning Centres, time to get excited!
Learning Outcomes Delivered
The Early Years Learning Framework for Australia V2.0, 2022
Learning Outcome 2: Children are connected with and contribute to their world.
Children develop the sense of connectedness to groups and communities and an understanding of their reciprocal rights and responsibilities as active and informed citizens.
Learning Outcome 4: Children are confident and involved learners.
- Children develop a growth mindset and learning dispositions such as curiosity, cooperation, confidence, creativity, commitment, enthusiasm, persistence, imagination and reflexivity.
- Children develop a range of learning and thinking skills and processes such as problem solving, inquiry, experimentation, hypothesising, researching and investigating.
- Children transfer and adapt what they have learned from one context to another.
Learning Outcome 5: Children are effective communicators.
Children interact verbally and non-verbally with others for a range of purposes.
Workshop #1. Counting Coins
Main Topic: Understanding Currency (~50 minutes)
Guiding children in building the basics of understanding currency while having fun with coins. Through the exploration of the history of money, games and hands-on activities, including identifying, sorting, and counting coins, preschoolers begin to develop connections between the literal product of coins and banknotes and the abstract concepts of using money to make purchases.
Workshop #2. Learn to Earn
Main Topic: Earning Money (~50 minutes)
As children discover the purpose of money, they will begin to wonder how money is earned. Preschoolers explore real-world concepts in this workshop by examining different jobs and sources of income. Making connections between jobs children are familiar with (e.g. those held by family members) they begin to associate how income is earned. A variety of independent and small group activities are provided throughout the workshop to extend students’ exploration of earning money.
Workshop #3.
Needs and Wants
Main Topic: Needs and Wants (~50 minutes)
Dig into the dierence between needs and wants in this workshop by engaging with a storybook and solving story problems. Children will think critically to differentiate between and prioritise needs and wants as they sort, craft mini-books, and collaborate on group games. A variety of independent and group activities are provided to extend preschoolers’ exploration of needs and wants.
Workshop #4.
Ready. Set. Goal
Main Topic: Setting Goals (~55 minutes)
Explore the meaning of goals through interactive games that get the whole group thinking about accomplishing new things. Then delve further into goal setting by reflecting on needs and wants to name group and individual children goals through engaging discussions and art projects.
Workshop #5. Super Savers
Main Topic: Saving and Spending (~55 minutes)
Children set out to become super savers in this workshop by exploring the options of saving and spending and engaging in play store game where they earn, spend or save money. Group discussions cover dierent ways how money can be used and safe places where children can keep money that they are saving (piggy bank and bank). The group will have an opportunity to save money for a collective goal and experience delayed gratification when they are able to purchase what they were saving for as a group.
Workshop #6.
Borrowing, Lending and Giving
Main Topic: Borrowing, Lending and Giving (~45 minutes)
Preschoolers explore the benefits and challenges of borrowing and lending by examining how we check out, use, and return books from the library. Children will then examine ways to borrow items responsibly and create their own bookmarks with borrowing tips. Exploring strategies for sharing and responsible use of materials supports preschoolers in forming habits for success at school and home.
Preschoolers attending Preschools and Early Learning Centres
(4-6 years old)
Program / individual incursion / packages: YOU choose what works for your Centre
Servicing
Sydney, Central Coast, Lake Macquarie, Newcastle
EYLF Outcomes delivered through Incursion Program and all individual incursions
Children LOVE learning about money when they have FUN!
Keen to help your Preschoolers become money smart and ready for Big School life?
Contact me with your enquiries regarding "Preschool Money Adventures!" Incursion Program or individual incursions / packages for your Centre.
0413 468 024