Ms. Amy's Montessorians

Dear Fifth Grade Families,

Every year our 5th grade students get a wonderful opportunity to participate in a simulated town/market economy called J.A. Biztown at the Children’s Discovery Museum in Salt Lake City on the 18th of January.  The program combines hours of in-class learning (including our recent elections for town Mayor and DJ) with a day-long visit to a simulated business and town community.  At Biztown students work as employees in various business, are paid for their labor and manage personal checking accounts.  They learn about time and money management skills as they work, bank and shop as consumers.

This has been a hugely successful and fun experience for the students and something they look forward to as they enter the 5th grade.  Every student who has participated over the years can tell you what an exciting and eye-opening experience it was for them, many still talk about it years later.

The program is dependent on and designed to include parent participation; each Biztown business, market and bank is assigned 1 – 2 parent volunteers.  For our school, in addition to participating in the simulation with the students, the parent volunteers also provide the transportation to and from the field trip.

Our classroom needs 3-4 parent volunteers please let me know A.S.A.P. if you are interested.   The permission slip for this field trip will come home at the beginning of next week.
Thank you,

Ms. Amy