Reading Days for Kids
Not sure if SPS is doing this but it doesn't look like it has to be a district-based activity. Let your teacher know if you'd like a "superstar" in your classroom.
Financial Capability Month & Money Smart Week Reading Days
Financial Capability Month & Money Smart Week Reading Days
Governor Inslee has proclaimed the month of April to be Financial
Capability Month and April 22-29 to be Money Smart
Week (MSW). Money Smart Week is a national campaign focused on
providing financial education to consumers at all income levels with free events
held throughout the country. In 2016, 48 states participated in MSW, holding
over 5,000 events with 174,000 consumer participants around the country. The
Department of Financial Institutions is a proud partner of Money Smart Week and
is bringing two interactive events to Washington State elementary classrooms.
As part of Financial Capability Month and MSW, the Department
of Financial Institutions (DFI) and Jump$tart WA coordinate the Reading Days
Program. Started in 2009, the Reading Days are an opportunity to introduce
financial education into classrooms all over Washington. Local “Superstars” in
each city-mayors, city council members, and school board members-volunteer to
go into their local elementary schools and read a story to a class, or two,
that has a financial education based story line. Books in the past have
included “The King’s Chessboard,” the Berenstain Bears “Trouble with Money,”
“Rock, Brock and the Savings Shock” by former FDIC Chair Sheila Bair, and “The
Millionaires Kids Club – Penny Power” by Susan Beacham and Lynnette
Khalfani-Cox. After the reading, the volunteer will lead students in an
activity that further explores the financial concept from the story. DFI does
all the coordinating and scheduling, all you have to do is send in an email
stating you would like to participate!
If you would like to hold a Reading Day in your classroom
during the month of April, email Katrina Roy at Katrina.roy@dfi.wa.gov to
schedule a date and find a volunteer reader.
For more information on Money Smart Week, or if you’re interested in
becoming a partner, visit http://www.moneysmartweek.org/ .
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