Our first week of business immersion is so far a success! On Monday, we dove into Double Doodles (pictured in the banner) where we activate our left and right brains for creative thinking and problem solving...plus, it is fun to see what our hands can do when we stop thinking about it! This exercise was followed by a manifesting meditation where students imagined achieving their goals they identified at the end of last week. Once meditations were complete, students coloured for two songs all about achieving their goals. Their goals were posted in the foyer to remind them of their visions over the next 3 weeks.
Business Jeopardy was introduced this week to support language and math studies, with the added influence of winning the values on the cards in cents to the team with the highest score when all categories have been answered. Everyone had a blast playing and came back to this game throughout the week until they were complete. Team "RT Hawks" with Hazel, Mason & Ellie had the highest score by nearly double. Their score was their winnings of $30 ($10 each as the winning team determined) which they will receive on Monday. Students also had reading and writing practice as they completed their morning rolling cart activities.
Students were introduced to our classroom version of a business plan. Students learned about and identified their business name and type, mission and vision, and created some very specific goal language to match their drawings. They completed a resource list and identified their purpose for their items and their costs. Each student had $100 set aside from materials this year. Each student tallied up their resources and identified whether or not they had enough money in their budgets to pay for their resources. Materials were chosen online and our first business order went in on Wednesday evening once everyone had completed the first page of their business plans.
On Spirit Day, we had no October birthdays to celebrate, so we took our time to finish up Business Jeopardy, carve pumpkins in small groups, Roast pumpkin seeds AND convert the classroom into a haunted house to entertain the Sprouts. We listened to music and played games as well while hanging out in our costumes.
Our afternoons this week (with the exception of Wednesday) were spent dreaming, planning and creating for our classroom sale items and raffle prizes (quilt and crocheted blanket, the drum is already complete), along with business creations for those students who came prepared. There are at minimum 1.5 hours per day set aside for business creation.
As a special message to parents during our business immersion time and leading up to Share The Magic Day:
Every student chose from their heart their business name, products they prefer to create, and these choices had no influence other than their own interests and passions. This is an important foundation for their future business success and learning.
Most students are choosing to own their own businesses and are uninterested in sharing their profits with employees. Our classroom guidelines around support for business, is that a contract must be created that outlines the terms, which requires financial reimbursement for all time anyone supports the student in their business creations or table displays. Students have ample time in our business program to complete everything they need to. To support this, I ask that parents and siblings not offer help by making anything for the student for their business.
If your student has any business materials, signs, t shirts, etc at home, please send these items in with them Monday.
Students who are planning to create food for sale are required to complete the food handler safety course online. This begins on Monday. We will be learning this together, and we will all become 'certified' in the process. Finance is available to these families: Stella, Kassidy, Khloe and Hazel. If your student is required to purchase food resources, please do so and provide the receipt so your student can reimburse your investment in their business.
Looking forward to next week!!!!
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