Middle School Market Day
By Samantha DePriest
Preparing students to impact tomorrows world has been and remains the mission and focus of Trinity Christian School. Each year our middle school students are given multiple elective classes to choose from to take during their 6th, 7th, and 8th grade years. Providing our students with engaging classes and curriculum that teach necessary skills and healthy habits that could impact their long-term financial success and quality of life are essential.
The Business and Finance elective class is led by Ms. Emily Walter. Ms. Walter shared, “The Business/Finance class has studied personal finance as well as Entrepreneurship. They’ve learned about savings, credit, bank accounts, investing, and budgeting. They also created their businesses, designed logos, made and priced their products, and so much more! I am so proud of their hard work!”
Students in the Business Finance and Entrepreneurship were able to put into practice the skills they have learned this year by hosting a Market Day for our 4th and 5th grade classes. The event was held in the gymnasium and very well attended. The middle school students planned, budgeted, and marketed their businesses and were able to sell their products. Meanwhile the Upper Elementary students had a blast shopping from table to table supporting their fellow Lions. The market day came at the perfect time just before Mother’s Day and provided students with an opportunity to shop for gifts for their Mom’s, Grandmother’s, and other special people in their lives. Most of the students sold out of their items and many of them made more than $50 in real money.
Many of Ms. Walter’s students shared how they loved learning how they could turn their creativity into profit by selling items they made or bought and marketed. Many TCS parents shared how they appreciated opportunities like these for their students to learn real world skills that will benefit their children later in life. Our 3rd grade students also hosted a Market Day during the month of May, however pretend money was used.
