Final Cookbook Sales

We had a super successful year of cookbook sales!  We started this economics unit by learning about how people can earn money and how people spend it.  We learned about the difference between selling a good or providing a service.  The students brainstormed ways as children they can earn money.  Some of their ideas were dong chores at their house or for neighbors, having a garage sale, setting up a lemonade stand, or saving money they get as a gift.  We had two eighth grade students visit our classroom to talk about the different ways they have earned money.  Isaac shared with the class about the details of his egg business, and Mason talked with the class about designing and selling sweatshirts.

We learned about what we can do with the money we earn; specifically the difference between buying items we need and items we want.  We discussed the importance of saving our money and using money to help others.  This lead into putting together our cookbook to earn money as a class.  The students made posters advertising our cookbooks.  We hung them up around the school.  We also made a commercial that played in the commons area.

The students were so excited whenever a customer came to our door.  Below is one of our students selling to a customer from next door.  It was fantastic to have so much support from students of all ages, staff members, our families, and people in the community.

It was also exciting for our students to be interviewed about our economics unit and cookbook project.  We were able to read our article in the newspaper.

Now that our sales have come to a close, we have our final numbers!  We sold 172 cookbooks and we made $271!  This is a record for the amount of money we have made from this project.  This is due to many generous customers who wanted to donate additional money for us to put towards helping the family in Rushford.  Thank you to all of our customers!  Our first order of business is to pay back the school $72.24 for printing supplies.  This will leave us with $198.76.  As a class we will pick out items we need for our classroom, a few items we would like, and donate money to help the family in Rushford who is recovering from a house fire.  We will be able to make the largest donation we've ever made from our cookbook sales.  I love that this unit teaches the students not only about making money, but also about helping others.  We will keep you updated on our purchases that are decided upon by the class!