Week Eleven

This Week

With all of the testing going on and the quarter wrapping up, I apologize that I haven't updated the blog recently. This past week though students presented their vacation projects, so I'd encourage you to check them out! I have some of them added to the website, although not all of them yet. You can check the ones I have posted so far on the Student Work page or ask your son or daughter to show you theirs. Students have until this upcoming Friday to revise anything I asked them to fix.

Check out the student work here!

Upcoming Week

Next week we will continue working on our budgeting project, which we also started this week. Special thanks to Ms. Helton for coming in and talking about the importance of budgeting with the students. She explained to them how she has one simple document outlining her budget based on past expenditures. I explained to students that, because they don't have prior spending history, they will need to research the prices for everything from where they want to live (renting or owning?) to how often they want to go out to the movies. Students will be working on this until early April. When they get done with the project they should have a good financial picture of how they want to live when they enter the work force, whether that be after pursuing an M.D. or entering the workforce right out of high school.

Here's to a great week next week, and Go Flyers!

~Mr. Grieve