or food product they had made and sell it for school money (known as Eagle Bucks) or be willing to perform a service and get paid for it, such as cleaning out another's desk. A couple of things were learned in the process. A.) People will give you money if you have a quality product to sell and B.) how to make change. Addition and subtraction are just starting to sink in with the kids and some will still hand over more money than what the price has called for and walk away not even thinking about expecting to get change. Last weeks Market Day products ranged from handmade bracelets to chocolate chip cookies. I was able to make the rounds to all the classes and see how things went. Totally and absolutely students were in to this exercise. Quite a few of the students commented that " this was the best day of the year." It was like a mini-carnival atmosphere. Students were so excited about the the things to buy and food to eat. They were so innocent too in that they would just lay their money down on their desk, leave it there, and walk around to see what else was going on. With a little luck hopefully this much interest and excitement will carry over into their teenage years and give them an incentive to get summer jobs when they get older.
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
Market Day
To better help students understand the concept of money, the 2nd grade does something every year called Market Day. Students have to either bring to school an object 
or food product they had made and sell it for school money (known as Eagle Bucks) or be willing to perform a service and get paid for it, such as cleaning out another's desk. A couple of things were learned in the process. A.) People will give you money if you have a quality product to sell and B.) how to make change. Addition and subtraction are just starting to sink in with the kids and some will still hand over more money than what the price has called for and walk away not even thinking about expecting to get change. Last weeks Market Day products ranged from handmade bracelets to chocolate chip cookies. I was able to make the rounds to all the classes and see how things went. Totally and absolutely students were in to this exercise. Quite a few of the students commented that " this was the best day of the year." It was like a mini-carnival atmosphere. Students were so excited about the the things to buy and food to eat. They were so innocent too in that they would just lay their money down on their desk, leave it there, and walk around to see what else was going on. With a little luck hopefully this much interest and excitement will carry over into their teenage years and give them an incentive to get summer jobs when they get older.
or food product they had made and sell it for school money (known as Eagle Bucks) or be willing to perform a service and get paid for it, such as cleaning out another's desk. A couple of things were learned in the process. A.) People will give you money if you have a quality product to sell and B.) how to make change. Addition and subtraction are just starting to sink in with the kids and some will still hand over more money than what the price has called for and walk away not even thinking about expecting to get change. Last weeks Market Day products ranged from handmade bracelets to chocolate chip cookies. I was able to make the rounds to all the classes and see how things went. Totally and absolutely students were in to this exercise. Quite a few of the students commented that " this was the best day of the year." It was like a mini-carnival atmosphere. Students were so excited about the the things to buy and food to eat. They were so innocent too in that they would just lay their money down on their desk, leave it there, and walk around to see what else was going on. With a little luck hopefully this much interest and excitement will carry over into their teenage years and give them an incentive to get summer jobs when they get older.
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