Hillside Grade School first graders in Mrs. DiBartolomeo’s class recently explored potential future careers during a financial literacy lesson with Susan Schlueck, the financial literacy teacher for Hillside Grade School and Manor Oaks School.
The lesson began with conversations about what a job entails, as well as why going to school is important when it comes to getting a good job. Schlueck taught the students related vocabulary, such as “job,” “wage/salary” and “career.”
As it was also Multicultural Week at Hillside Grade School, the first graders learned about jobs in different languages. Using the Padlet app on their Chromebooks, each student entered what future career they see themselves having. Some of their selected jobs included teacher, firefighter and police officer, among others.
Following the Padlet activity, Schlueck asked the students what makes a job good and fair, and what makes a job unfair. The lesson concluded with a game of charades, as the students paired off to guess each other’s career.
This is the second year of the financial literacy program in the New Hyde Park-Garden City Park Union Free School District. Each class, grades K-6, receives approximately 3-4 lessons with their respective financial literacy teachers. The lessons cover various age-appropriate finance topics, such as checking/savings accounts, wants versus needs when buying items, stocks, 401Ks, cryptocurrency and more.
