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JA Ourselves Program Overview

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Program Overview

JA Ourselves®
JA Ourselves introduces kindergarten students to the intersection of financial literacy and early elementary
grades social studies learning objectives. Through hands-on classroom activities, the program provides
students with an introduction to personal economics and the choices consumers make to meet their needs and
wants. It also introduces students to the role of money in society while providing them with practical information about earning,
saving, and sharing money. JA Ourselves is volunteer-taught and kit-based. There are five 30-minute sessions, with additional
extended learning activities offered throughout.

Session Overview Objective/Goals Activities/Components


Students will be able to...
SESSION Students practice • Identify personal interests. Students make choices with the
ONE economics by making • Consider the factors that help of This or That? Picture Cards.
This or That? personal choices. determine their choices. Students read a simple prompt in their
Make a Choice • Define money. Junior Journal Minibooks and make a
choice. Students who are able write a
sentence about their choice.

SESSION Students recognize • Explain the difference Students participate in an eye-spy


TWO that people have basic between needs and wants. poem to help them find need and
Do I Need What needs and wants and • Create a simple chart. want items on a poster. Using
I Want? that money-smart people stickers, students create a needs
know the difference and wants chart in their minibooks.
between them.
SESSION Students are introduced • Describe the role of Students hear the story Welcome
THREE to storybook characters money in society. Home! to learn about ways they can
A Penny Earned and examine ways they • Identify jobs they can do earn money. Using their minibooks,
can earn money. to earn money. students complete a maze and draw a
picture of how they can earn money.

SESSION Students are introduced • Explain the importance of Students perform finger plays
FOUR to the concept of saving. saving money. that help them remember to save.
A Penny Saved • Identify a savings goal. Students separate into groups to
• Identify a place where complete a fill-in-the-piggy-bank
people save money. activity in their minibooks.

SESSION Students are introduced to • Explain the importance of Students hear Charlie Plants a
storybook characters and giving. Garden, a story about starting
FIVE
their plans to earn money • Organize a chronological a neighborhood garden. They
A Penny Shared
for a worthy cause. sequence of events. organize story cards sequentially
in their minibooks.

Concepts:
Buying, choices, costs, earning, giving, goals, goods and services, interests, money, needs and wants, saving, society, spending, values
Skills:
Counting, decision making, drawing conclusions, following directions, graphing and graph interpretation, listening, matching and
classifying, predicting, problem solving, reading and writing, self-assessment, sequencing, teamwork, verbal communication,
vocabulary building
2021–2022

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