Learning to be responsible with money is something most people don't think to teach their children until they are older. Of course, Mother Goose Time is ahead of the curve! This month, in addition to A LOT of art, we are learning character traits related to financial stewardship, and the ways to use money.
We started out by reading the story of Falco the Flightless Bird. Falco found a coin, and was intrigued. He started to spend all his time looking for coins (kind of a gambling analogy), and didn't even realize he had lost all of his feathers in his pursuit of coins!
This month, we are helping Falco get his feathers back by making responsible decisions. The first thing we do each day is find a feather from our "nest" (we were supposed to have used a box to make a nest, but I just pile them up every day) that is both the color of the day, and starts with a certain letter. Then we read the scenario on the back of the feather. If Falco made a good choice we keep the feather, and at the end of the month I am going to put them all on the Falco picture Little Guy colored.
Mother Goose Time thinks of everything, so I don't have to! :)
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