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Wednesday was Market Day for our school’s fourth graders. This is where the kids all come up with something they can make to sell to each other. All year they’ve been earning Grizzly Bucks for class room jobs (and losing them for forgetting homework) and working on their banking skills.
The kids had a $20 budget and they were supposed to manufacture their products by themselves, for the most part. Ellie is quite handy with a drill (I think she takes after her mother!) and also used pliers to put together her keychains. There was a wide range of offerings from these kids. I bought a beautiful (truly!) necklace, tons of oragami, some team pennants, homemade dog treats, bookmarks, finger knit scarves, lanyards and henna tatoos. It was a great way to get my holiday shopping done. (Too bad they don’t hand you wads of cash when you walk into the mall like they did for all the parents when they came to shop! I wonder if what Macy’s would do if I handed them some Grizzly Bucks.)
As homework for the evening the kids had to write about their experience by leaving a comment on their class blog. Here’s what Ellie had to say about her day. These are her words and her spelling.
I learned that working at a store was harder then I thought because if you have something that is really popular your store gets really crazy and you get stressed out. Trust me i’v had it happen to me before.
The second thing I learned was that market day should be longer because you get to shop with freinds and have a good time. ( even if your doing math.)
– Ellie
Here are some of the pictures I captured. (Ignore Ellie’s lovely black eye. She, literally, had a run in with Kate!)