JA Biztown Trip This Week: Here's Our Day

JA Biztown is finally here!! We will be taking half of the 6th grade class each day to JA Biztown on Thursday and Friday. This means about 75 students, 15 parents, and 4 teachers will be invading the JA Biztown facility each day for a great day of fun and learning. Just in case you are wondering what your child needs and what their day will look like, here you go:

What your child needs for the day:

*A few pencils

*A sack lunch (no drink...they buy this with their paycheck)

*Their permission slip turned in (still missing some!!!)

What their day will look like:

*Come to school at normal time

*Report to 1st period with their pencils and sack lunch

*Be dismissed to Commons at 8:25 a.m. to line up for bus

*Head to Biztown at 8:30 and arrive at 8:50 a.m.

*From 9-11 a.m. students will work in their business and hold a town meeting to hear from CEOs, Mayor, Judge, etc. Biztown staff will also go over the rules and safety procedures.

*From 11 a.m.-1 p.m. students will continue to work, but will mix in a couple breaks where they also get to deposit their paycheck into their checking account at the bank. They also get to spend lots of Biztown money on some fun items!

*From 1 p.m-2 p.m. students will clean up and hold a final town meeting. Awards, thanks, and other items will be handed out and students will board the bus.

*Students will leave at 2 p.m. and arrive back at the middle school at 2:20 p.m.

*Students will fill out a JA Biztown post-experience survey, write some thank you notes, and talk about what they liked and didn't like. up until the 3:10 bell. This will take place with one of the volunteer teachers from the trip.

On the day your child does not go to JA Biztown, they will go through a fairly regular day of school. They do not actually miss any of their CORE class instruction because those teachers will teach the same thing on both Thursday and Friday since all 6th graders will be here one day and gone the other day.

The 6th graders are really excited for this trip and we should have a great time. When they are all done, they should have some souveniers, should be able to find some pictures I took of them to put in a scrapbook or give to their parents to scrapbook with, and will get to watch videos taken the day of JA Biztown in a future Life Skills class. So...tons of fun and tons of memories. Thank you for helping make this possible and keep discussing anything related to money, jobs, work, and "real life" with your kids even after Biztown has finished. Have a great week!