Money. Money. Money. It seems like we are again experiencing another ‘Black Monday”. Or is the sky falling? Which is it? Let’s look at past and present indicators –

• Black Monday refers to the stock market crash that occurred on October 19, 1987, and on other Mondays
• That’s when the DJIA (Dow Jones Industrial Average) lost 22.6% in a single day
• It triggered a global stock market decline
• Global stock markets are sliding as Japan suffers the biggest fall since 1987
• In the early hours of Monday, August 5, 2024, the Stock Market lost 1,000 points

Parents-Homeschoolers-Educators: sketch/color an illustration. Theme: news. Read the “Chicken Little” story in Learning to Read: Fairy Tale Adventures. Rewrite these words alphabetically, say each word out loud, and use them in a sentence: news, around, sky, danger, story, money, economy. Explain what fell in the Chicken Little story and Black Monday. List three facts about Black Monday. List how much the stock market lost. Write what you think is going to happen with the economy. (Skillset: identify, comprehend, apply, predict, oral, creativity, math)