Hello and welcome back!
This past week was a little crazy with Scantron testing to see how much student's literacy skills have improved throughout the year.
On Wednesday we continued learning about finance and we focused on the stock market. We played an activity where student's had $1,000 to spend on different stocks of their choice. We're going to check back the last week of school and see if their stocks have gained or lost money.
On Thursday we worked on our final project. Student's are researching colleges that interest them and then focusing on career paths they may want to pursue. We'll finish those project up this week.
Hope everyone has a great week!
Monday, May 13, 2019
Monday, May 6, 2019
The Weekly Ranum: Edition #30
Hi all,
Only a few more weeks left of school and we're focusing on mostly future oriented lessons like college, career and finance.
Last week we started it off with a lesson called goals, wants and needs. This gave students a start on figuring out the things in life that they want to accomplish and/or focus on. It also let them see the difference between a want and need in life and they noticed a couple of common themes. First, we all have a lot more wants in our life than needs. Everyone wants the newest gadget or car or game but our needs is a relatively short list (air, food, water, housing, etc.) Second, they noticed that these wants in their lives will cost a good amount of money so being able to have a secure and consistent career is really important.
We're going to continue with some finance (stock market) lessons this week and maybe start identifying some future careers.
Have a great week!
Only a few more weeks left of school and we're focusing on mostly future oriented lessons like college, career and finance.
Last week we started it off with a lesson called goals, wants and needs. This gave students a start on figuring out the things in life that they want to accomplish and/or focus on. It also let them see the difference between a want and need in life and they noticed a couple of common themes. First, we all have a lot more wants in our life than needs. Everyone wants the newest gadget or car or game but our needs is a relatively short list (air, food, water, housing, etc.) Second, they noticed that these wants in their lives will cost a good amount of money so being able to have a secure and consistent career is really important.
We're going to continue with some finance (stock market) lessons this week and maybe start identifying some future careers.
Have a great week!
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