Teaching Entrepreneurship to Kids God’s Way

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In the last year, my nine year old has expressed interest in money and in starting a little business where she can sell goods and make profit. I wasn’t sure how to orient her on this, until my prayer got answered and we were able to have access to a brand new program in which I could teach her entrepreneurship for kids and money management. The Kingdom Code doesn’t only provide this guide in 27 well organized lessons, it teaches entrepreneurship and American business concepts from a Biblical perspective on how to manage money properly, while at the same time providing character building traits that goes along with applicable principles of business ethics.

My soon to be 10 year-old daughter was excited to receive this program and to be able to learn about managing money God’s way.

The Complete Starter Kit includes the following items:

• A Teacher’s Guide complete with a list of supplies needed, how to get organized, expectations, how to use each of the essential elements of the program, and complete lesson plans.
• A high quality, colorful and fully illustrated, spiral bound textbook with all the lessons.
• A student packet with a medieval style illustrated 13-month blank calendar pages in card stock, colorful activity sheets, colorful forms and notices, and worksheets to go along with each of the lessons.
• A budget kit.
• A medieval style treasure map with stickers to track each lesson completed, and extra stickers to award for bonus work.
• Cover pages for your binders (binders not included).
• Coloring book.
• Receipt Book
• Vocabulary flash cards printed on card stock.

Organizing the Material

The Teacher’s Guide provides a supply list for each student, and detailed instruction on how to set up the binders and organize the material (love it!). In that list though, it says that you will need two 1 inch 3-ring binders, but I recommend getting three.

• One for the Teacher’s Guide,
• One for the KCK (Kingdom Code Kid) Binder, and
• One for the Budget Binder.

I really appreciate that the material comes with cover pages to slide in the clear inserts of the binders.

I love my Teacher’s Guide! Every single detail of it: the teaching guidelines, explanation of symbols, features, lesson options, schedule options, etc. are very well explained and I can follow the lesson with ease. A added benefit is that it requires little preparation. I can spend about 20 minutes reading (or even less) to prepare for the next lesson, and it is so well outlined that I can easily picture in my mind how the flow of the lesson will go. I appreciate that there is also space to write notes in case I need to, or desire to add additional ideas to complement the lesson (although not necessary).

The Kingdom Code Kid (KCK) binder holds all the materials that come in the student’s packet. You organize it in separate tabs for easy access to each worksheet, forms, and activities, and a section to file completed work. This is basically my daughter’s workbook. It’s properly labeled and easy to use, so she is well adapted to it.

This is my daughter’s KCK Budget Binder. In it are five labeled (sticker labels included with the kit) zippered pouches (not included with the kit) to store the divided money. This binder comes into play in lesson 7 when they learn how to make a sale and later on lesson 13 when she learns about saving. This follows a similar style of the envelope system, but with durability for years to come as she builds her money making, distribution, and saving habits.

Flashcards

The vocabulary comes printed in card stock for durability, but I really like to laminate all things that are going to be in constant use, so I laminated the cards, stacked them in two piles:

• Current vocabulary to review, and
• Future vocabulary to learn.

I just hold them together with rubber bands and we keep them stored on a shelve in the school area, when not in use. You could also store them in a small plastic container.

Daughter’s Opinion

• She likes the fully illustrated textbook.
• Enjoys completing the worksheets as the lesson progresses.
• Likes to look for the lesson’s verse in her pretty Bible.
• Is optimistic about the brainstorming ideas on how to begin a service business.
• Expresses satisfaction that she’s able to understand the financial vocabulary introduced in each lesson.
• Enjoys the historical background provided in the lessons.
• Gets excited about sticking the rewards on her treasure map:

The Bonus Code Work at the end of each lesson provides extra thinking and problem solving activities, and with the option of rewarding by placing a sticker (reward) on the  KCK Treasure Map. My daughter enjoys these extra activities as many of those give her the opportunity to put her creative juices to work. These are a few of the bonus work she has done:

 

We are very excited to have this program as part of our homeschool curriculum, and I can’t wait to share with you what business my sweet girl builds.

I don’t think there is any other kid-friendly, money management program out there like The Kingdom Code, I recommend you to add this program to your homeschool curriculum, the benefits are for the long term, and your child will benefit as an adult with the faith-based financial principles taught in each of the lessons.

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I really encourage you to look into this faith-based entrepreneurship program for kids. I hope that I gave you some good insight into it. As usual, let’s remember that  “We can do all things through Christ, who strengthens us” (Phil. 4:13), but we can’t do them all at once.