Do I Need It? Or Do I Want It?: Making Budget Choices (Lightning Bolt Books ® ― Exploring Economics)

This book is a little advanced for my 1st grade students, but it was a VERY helpful tool (when I read it aloud) for introducing the concept of budgets to my class. I will use this book in my classroom forever.

This fits into the second grade curriculum well with being able to create a budget and learning about wants vs. needs. In addition check with your local financial institutions to see if their have an education department that comes out to schools.

Good to explain the meaning of wants and needs

Very good for helping to teach your child about budgeting & money.

Used this with our common core ELA and Social Studies unit in first grade and along with the other texts in this series it worked very well.

Great for meeting/teaching 1st grade standards.

This book was perfect to use as a whole group in our 3rd grade classroom to learn about our economics curriculum!

If you have literally never had a basic conversation about finances with your child, I guess this work ((For example - you're at the store and your child wants something silly. And you explain that it might be better to wait to buy something they really want or need). This was a super short, super basic book that was way to simple for kids that have already been given some simple principles.