The Dunn Foundation Moonjar is an exciting program meant to teach your child about money and the ideas of Saving, Spending and Sharing. Like reading, writing and arithmetic, teaching children about money and saving is an important and valuable life-skill lesson, which the Dunn Foundation wants to promote at St. Peter’s, starting in kindergarten and running through sixth grade.
Dunn Foundation Moonjars encourage kids to envision their dreams and creatively bring them to life. Dunn Foundation Moonjars offer a visual and tactile beginning for children to understand how to use money and build a strong financial foundation to reach their goals.
Three moneyboxes, one each for Saving, Spending and Sharing act as a teaching tool that connect wish-upon-a-star hopes with conscientious decision making and financial objectives. Dunn Foundation Moonjars will also inspire positive family communication, responsibility and commitment to the larger community. We will also discuss the importance of donating time and talent as pieces of building strong individuals and communities.
Students will bring home their own Dunn Foundation Moonjar on Friday, June 3 and have an understanding of what it means and how they should use it. The Student Council is creating a presentation that will be both informative and entertaining.
Throughout the summer, you will receive seven emails containing information pertaining to the Save, Spend and Share concept. We have also established an interactive web site to help with communication this summer. You can find it at: http://www.dunnfoundation.blogspot.com. We can share our experiences on the different aspects of Save, Spend and Share and how they affect our child, family and community.
As a final piece, we would like each the students to create a picture or story about their experience over the summer with the Dunn Foundation Moonjar. Each child that enters a picture or story will receive a t-shirt and be eligible to receive additional prizes, based on age groups.
