Our Entrepreneurial Adventure Begins!

Today Mr. Adam Barrett, a volunteer from BMO came to our class and helped us get started in our Entrepreneurial Adventure Program. In this program, our class will be starting a small business and then donating the proceeds to a charity of our choice.

We began today by gathering some ideas for a charity that we might like to donate to, and then students presented their ideas to the class by trying to "sell" their charity to the class. In the end, we chose to donate our proceeds to the humane society. All of the ideas from students were great and students were able to clearly tell why their charity was a good choice, even given the limited amount of time they had to prepare their ideas. Great work!

Our next step is to choose a business that we would like to start. Today students gathered and started brainstorming some ideas for businesses. Next, they are going to gather and develop a business proposal that they will present "Dragon's Den" style. Perhaps we'll call it the "Lion's Den"!

In the next couple of weeks, they will present their business proposal to the class and then we will vote on the business idea we think is most achievable and appropriate for our class.

I am very excited about this program, because I think it will tie together many concepts in math and language, as well as provide some valuable experience for students in a real life situation. I will be updating often to demonstrate student progress, as well as to demonstrate the links between the curriculum and this project.