GBM Question/Review…

I got a few questions from Becky about my thoughts on the GBM: Holidays Around the World Unit that I completed and wanted to share my responses as well as some more ideas that I may use next year:
Q: Hi Kristen,
Thanks so much for your wonderful ideas! I check your blog often and get many [...]

Character Creations

I had a question about this and I knew I needed to come back and elaborate more on it…..
Each year in my room as I guess an addendum to our regular “store” we have a Character Creations store.  It’s basically like a dumbed down version of Build A Bear!
I begin by choosing a [...]

Mini Economy Classroom Job Cards

Here are the cards I made to use in a pocket chart for our Mini-Economy Jobs.  You print them out on business cards and then tear them apart.  I would suggest laminating them before you tear them apart-or you could do what I did–laminate each individual one!   I hope they save okay and [...]

Kindergarten Economic Unit

I decided to tie in economic principles into my Monarch Butterfly theme.  The lessons are pretty self explanatory, and will only take 20 minutes for one week to teach.  Give them a try!  What’s wrong with teaching your Kinder. kids how to make effective choices, state their opportunity cost, and understand scarcity and supply and [...]

Updated Job Application for Kinders.

After attending the Economy workshop last week and into this next week, I’ve made a change to the job application; I wanted to have the children make some choices in the jobs that they want, and wanted to make sure they didn’t have to choose one job exclusively.  There are now lines for them to [...]

Economics Workshop

I’ve been enjoying this workshop I’m taking-the teacher, Mo, is from Iran, but he’s lived here for 25 years or so and he is one of the smartest people I think I’ve ever met! Who knew that learning about Economics could be so fun and entertaining!?!  We are working on projects to earn 3 credit [...]