Kennedie's sweet and sticky store

The first Thursday of every month the fourth graders put on a little store where certain students in each class sign up sell stuff to earn money (not real money). They use this money for a lot of different things. It teaches them about budgeting and how to handle money. Well today it was Kennedie's turn to have a store. We debated over what she could sell. I didn't really have time to do very much because of work and other things going on. Last night about 8:00 we decided to do caramel apples. Our tree in our backyard has been full of apples and i wasn't sure what to do with them so we thought caramel apples would be a good thing to sell and use up some of the apples. We also made some "crunchy munchy sweet stuff" (recipe on Tiffini's blog) and put some in little bags with curly ribbon and then the girls made their sign. We came home at lunch today, got the caramel apples ready, and headed back to school. I went in to see if she needed some help and saw some of the stores that other kids had. There were snow cones, Halloween cookies, miniature pumpkin pies, basketball shoot, chips, homemade rootbeer (yummy!), and a whole lot more. I'm sure the kids were all full by the end of the school day. Kennedie ended up selling all her caramel apples and most of her little bags of goodies. She had lots of fun. Tune in next month to see what Kierra will sell.

Kennedie did not want to smile. She was embarrassed. Here she is in front of her store. She had caramel apples, bags of goodies, boxes of popcorn that Jay brought home from the store, and Mrs. Fields individually wrapped cookies. She sold most minus a few bags of goodies. Way to sell Kennedie!