JA and Turkey Writing!

Junior Achievement from West Leyden High School

Today we were lucky enough to have Junior Achievement volunteers come to our classroom and teach us all about our community and some business.

We had two West Leyden High School students join our classroom from 9:10 this morning until about 1:15. They started off teaching us all about our community, jobs within our community, and how jobs help us earn money. Below are some pictures learning about the different jobs available to people!

Students also participated in an "assembly line". They worked with their group to make donuts to sell! The students learned about the importance of getting the job right in order to make money for what they made if they made it the correct way.

The students really enjoyed having other students from our community come and and teach them new valuable things. This was a great introduction to our community unit we have coming up in third quarter! A huge Thank You to the West Leyden Junior Achievement volunteers for all of their hard work!

Turkey Descriptive Writing

Another great activity we did this week, was students were able to create their very own turkey. They had full control over how they wanted it to look, and created it entirely themselves. Then, after they created their turkey, they had to use their best descriptive writing to describe their turkey. Then today, we hung up each of our turkeys next to a number without names. Students then came up, read their writing piece, and other students had to guess which turkey was their based on their descriptive writing. The students had so much fun making and sharing their turkeys! This was such a fun activity to get students writing and being creative!

This is such a great time of the year, and I hope everyone enjoys their time off and uses it to relax and reflect on all we have to be thankful for. I am so thankful to have each of these students in my class!

Have a wonderful Thanksgiving! See everyone on Monday, November 30th!