Social Studies Dates

January 11th: While studying Economics we will be giving students an opportunity to practice the concept of bartering and trading. If your child would like to participate in our bartering day, please see below:

•Your child will need to bring one item from home.

•The item must be able to fit into a small paper bag.

•Your child should only bring an item they might be willing to part with.

•In order to participate, students need to bring the item in on January 11th.

•Your child does not need to trade an item unless they feel it is a fair trade, so they can very well come home with their own item if the choose to. This is entirely their choice and an opportunity to experience a barter/trade if they want to.

 

February 3rd: This will be the date of our class store.

Holiday Cheer!

We celebrated the holidays on our last day before winter break! We made edible dreidels, played dreidels, learned about the origin of the candy cane, and we made ourself into an elf for an ornament. Here are some pictures of our day!

Economics Project

When we get back from winter break, we are going to be learning about Economics in Social Studies and we will be having a class store where students can sell an item of theirs and buy an item from a classmate--we have fake money that the class will be earning that they can use to buy at our store. 

I know how busy everyone is around the holidays, but I wanted to share this now, in case you were looking for an activity to work on during the winter break. This is an activity we will be doing about 4 weeks when we return from break, so it is not due anytime soon. However, I figured advance notice might be helpful. Below are some ideas of what your child can make to "sell" at our class store, but they can create anything they want!

Ideas:

Popsicle picture frames or bookmarks

Painted rocks for paperweights

Noodle Necklaces/Bracelets

Decorated Pencils

Pet Rocks

Friendship Bracelets

Drawings

Greeting Cards

Paperclip art

● Origami ​for Kids - http://www.origami-instructions.com/origami-for-kids.html

● How to Crochet a Flower​for Children -http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWMlUGtfULw

● Building a simple soda can robot​- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4WLDAKZ5Kw

● Create a Cord Bracelet​- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8lQVJF6VQk 

● Create simple machine ​with batteries http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRSU4FnUSrA

Please let me know if you have any questions!

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