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Money Explorers · Grades K–2

Kindergarten Financial Literacy Curriculum

Money habits begin forming before a child can even read a price tag.

At the kindergarten level, financial literacy isn't about numbers — it's about instincts. Five- and six-year-olds are concrete, in-the-moment thinkers, so our kindergarten financial literacy curriculum meets them there: Milo and the crew turn “what is money,” “where does it come from,” and the first need-versus-want choice into stories a child can feel. The earliest, highest-leverage window there is.

Kindergarten students learning
Jump$tart Aligned
Grades K–2
Money Explorers
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Early Childhood Curriculum
4 units · 40 lessons · Grades K–2
$1,700 / year · per school
The K–12 Journey
K–2
3–5
6–8
9–12

The Wyzmons™ — a learner for every stage

Kindergarten sits in the Money Explorers band — one step in a single K–12 arc, from a first coin to a first paycheck.

Kindergarten’s Signature Lesson
The Needs & Wants Market

Children set up a pretend store and make their very first spend-or-save choice — learning to tell a need from a want.

Designed exclusively for Kindergarten students — every grade gets its own.
The Scope

What a Kindergarten student learns.

Kindergarten 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.

1.1What Is Money?
1.2Needs and Wants
1.3Saving for Something
1.4Sharing and Giving
Every lesson maps to the 8 money domains
Earning
Spending
Saving
Giving
Borrowing
Investing
Protecting
Planning

Every decision a kindergarten student makes feeds the FLIQ Score™ — a behavioral measure of how a child actually decides about money, so growth is provable, not guessed.

The Kindergarten 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.

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