It was a lesson in the art of business on Friday at Cridersville Elementary School.
4th graders were the entrepreneurs and 3rd graders were the consumers. Business plans included baked goods, salon services, jewelry design, school supplies, and more. This is the culmination of the 4th graders' economic unit in which they learned about savings, spending, and giving along with supply and demand as several students sold out of their product.
"I put them like out on the table, biggest to smallest and they were filled with flour and I put like another balloon over them and yea, I said high stress balls and everyone came, and everyone came and bought them," explained Deon Staton, who made stress balls.
"They're doing amazing, some of them are doing better than others, some of them are sitting there and not really doing a whole lot so we've talked to them about getting out there and advertise your product, get out there and show them. We've even told them, if you can do samples, give out samples, that will sell your product more quickly," said Aundrea Brown, 4th-grade teacher.
This is the 1st year they used real money and the students are donating half of what they earned to the "Military Order of the Purple Heart" as a fundraiser.
