Curriculum / First Grade
First Grade Financial Literacy Curriculum
By age seven, a child's money habits are already taking shape.*
First graders can now connect a coin to what it buys — the dawn of symbolic thinking. Our first grade financial literacy curriculum uses read-aloud stories and hands-on play to practice the two moves that matter most at this age: saving for something they want, and choosing to share. Small decisions, made on purpose, that begin a lifelong pattern.
The Wyzmons™ — a learner for every stage
First Grade sits in the Money Explorers band — one step in a single K–12 arc, from a first coin to a first paycheck.
Students explore the jobs in a community and discover how work turns into money.
What a First Grade student learns.
First Grade sits inside the Money Explorers program — 4 units and 40 lessons of story-, play-, and decision-based learning, taught the way great classrooms actually teach.
Every decision a first grade student makes feeds the FLIQ Score™ — a behavioral measure of how a child actually decides about money, so growth is provable, not guessed.
The First Grade curriculum is Jump$tart National Standards aligned, follows the HQIM structure districts use to evaluate curriculum, and is FERPA & COPPA compliant. Districts license per school and can pay by purchase order — Title IV-A eligible.
Grade-level design reflects established stages of cognitive development (Piaget) and research on early money-habit formation. *Money habits are largely formed by age seven — Whitebread & Bingham, University of Cambridge (2013).
Bring the First Grade curriculum to your classroom.
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