Economics and the Christmas Sale

Economics Unit/Christmas Sale
The children have begun learning about money, creating businesses, marketing, and sales for our Economics unit which will culminate in a Christmas Sale on December 12th. They will be involved in the following activities over the next few weeks:

Brainstorming what a business is
Brainstorming what products or services their intended market might be interested in
Conducting surveys of the intended market (other 1/2 classes and Kindergarten)
Learning to identify coins and their values, count coins, make change, and use a calculator
Researching costs for producing products or services
Making products or designing services
Advertising
Sales

Please give your child the opportunity to earn $3.00 by Wednesday, November 22, for business start-up costs. They should bring the money to school by that day along with an explanation of how they earned it. We may also need your help with making products and preparing for the sale. I’ll let you know. Mahalo, in advance, for all you do to support their learning!

Operation Christmas Child
The shoeboxes of caring gifts for unfortunate children need to be delivered to the classroom by Monday, November 20. They will be delivered to Central Union Church on that day.

Inquiry
The Inquiry projects are coming together, and the reports are almost ready for practice. The children will need to work on their lines over the Thanksgiving break so they are ready to present on November 29. Please help them in any way you can.

Homework Survey
Many of you have returned your homework survey. We value the information you provide, so please take time to fill it out, if you haven’t already.

Thanksgiving Vacation
Have a wonderful Thanksgiving holiday with your family. If your child will be missing any school, please let me know ahead of time. There will be no homework next week.

Posted on November 16, 2006 12:27 PM | Permalink