Day 11: Advertising and Budgeting

Today we started off talking about Communication, so I started off with the game "Whisper down the lane." We sat in a big circle and I started off a sentence. When it went around 15 kids and 3 adults, the sentence came back to me as "Party in the Pervert." The sentence I started off with was "Clifford and Barney are red and purple."

We broke off into groups and Ms. Iris and Mr. Peter did an exercise where the kids critiqued some advertisements in magazines. They wrote what they liked and didn't like.

I took the kids upstairs and we learned about personal budgeting and we plotted the numbers in Excel and each kid created their own Excel sheets. Some of the ways they made money were Chinese and Vietnamese New Year, birthdays, practicing the piano and Christmas. Some of the major expenses at this age were sneakers, uniforms, candy and junk food and video games. Did you know that the Legend of Zelda still costs $50? I thought that wasn't bad because it cost the same amount when I was a kid.

At the end of the day we did a little bit of Module 5: Where to get money. I am excited about Wednesday because we are getting our first two guest speakers to come in.