First day of Junior Achievement with the 7-8th graders. We're going to do one lesson per week while Mr. E teaches my kids PE. It went as well as can be expected; they weren't fans of the new covid-related format. Normally, we'd have a guest presenter come in and teach them for 45min or so. But, this year all the volunteers have to be virtual. The 5-8th graders get to watch videos of the person presenting the information and they get to do the activity on their own.
I did the first two lessons with the 5-6th graders Monday and Tuesday this week. They weren't fans of the presenter's voice.
"The southern accent is annoying!" one of them said.
"But I do a southern accent in our read-aloud books and that doesn't annoy you," I countered.
"Can't you just teach us the stuff???" they asked. "We like it better when you do it."
Well, we kept watching the video anyway, but we paused a bunch of times so I could explain it and somehow (shocker shocker), we ended up on a tangent about investing and interest rates.
The 7-8th graders liked their presenter better, but they didn't like how fast he talked. He paused to give them time to respond to some questions or to raise their hands. One of the 7th graders was confused, "Can he see us, Miss H? How does he know we're raising our hands?"
Their theme for Junior Achievement is "It's My Business" and the task for the first day was to make a business plan, logo, and slogan. Some of these kids do not work well together, so it was a little hairy to figure out groups/solo workers. It ended up being only two girls working together; the rest are by themselves. They came up with neat business ideas: lawn care, something involving sewing, Fun in a Box, 3D printed farm toys (that's an actual business one of the 7th graders is working on doing; he's going to sell them on facebook marketplace), tie dye creations, and tire sales.
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