JA Biztown

Ella’s 4th grade class applied their economics lessons by running a town, JA Biztown, for a day on a field trip to the city.  I chaperoned the field trip, but as a chaperone I was put to work supervising the real estate office.  Ella was a nurse for the day, which was luckily next door to my office so I got to check in on her every once in a while (it’s a chaperone rule that you can’t supervise your own child’s office).  There was no rest for the weary on this day, though—the kids, and in turn the chaperones, were literally put to work for nearly 4 hours straight performing the tasks of employees, citizens, and consumers to run JA (Junior Achievement) Biztown.  It was an exhausting day (at least for me) but the 4th graders definitely benefited from the hands-on application of economics and personal banking.

{cutest little nurse in ja biztown.}