Welcome to our middle school classroom! We are an energetic class where the students love to explore new ideas and concepts. We spend our days exploring and learning about reading, math, and STEM activities. When we walk through the door to class, we are one as a school family.
In our class, we work together to have fun, make mistakes, and learn!
We come from diverse backgrounds with a wide range of world experiences. We use flexible seating and grouping to make accessing knowledge more ergonomic and personally productive. As we navigate middle school, we are learning to work together, learn from each other, and understand the similarities and differences that make us all unique.
My Project
We live in a digital world where people shop and pay their bills online with virtual money. Even when we go to the store, more often than not, people pay with debit or credit cards. Students today have little experience with tangible cash money. It is something that is virtual and rarely seen. Students in my classroom are studying about financial responsibility and hard work to earn what you need. We have classroom jobs where students earn a weekly paycheck. They then pay for their basic needs within the classroom, such as rent for their desk and utilities. Once they have paid their bills, students can choose to use what remains of their paycheck at our classroom store or save it to purchase something bigger.
My students need books and games to support learning financial responsibility as well as how to invest money in stocks, bonds, IRA's, business ventures, and other means of using money wisely to make more money.
Using different books, we will learn how to manage a budget and begin the exploration into investing money. We will continue with different classroom board games to support saving and spending money, as well as how and when to invest. My students will be able to experience running a restaurant using the Osmo Pizza Company game, where they will get to experience leadership and financial management opportunities in a combined hands-on and virtual world. Together, we will learn to be the responsible financial leaders and investors of the future.
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