St. Catherine students learn money management |
 |
 |
|
Written by LAURIE STEVENS, Chronicle Writer
|
|
Friday, 04 January 2008 09:35 |
TOLEDO—Fifth-grade students from Barb O’Donnell’s class at Toledo St. Catherine School put knowledge from their consumer math unit into practice Dec. 14 when they went grocery shopping and prepared a lunch for more than 60 people at the school.
Mrs. O’Donnell says she developed the consumer math unit to teach her students how to manage money, since many of the fifth-graders are beginning to earn their own money by babysitting and completing other odd jobs.
 |
| From left, Toledo St. Catherine fifth-graders Austin Weber, Bianca Iannarino and Cailyn Horna prepare gravy for a lunch at school. (Chronicle photo by Laurie Stevens) |
“I wanted kids to be able to understand the value of a dollar,” she explains.
Students practiced concepts using grocery store flyers, catalogs and pretend money and learned how to compute tax, budget and do comparative shopping. For their final project they developed a healthy menu and raised money for the groceries with a raffle fundraiser.
The students went grocery shopping and at school prepared the lunch — which included chicken, potatoes, vegetables and fruit — for parent helpers, invited guests and themselves.
|
|
Last Updated on Monday, 22 September 2008 09:09 |
