Miss Wolfe's Kinders Rock!

Producers and Consumers

This website has short film clips of six ordinary objects being manufactured.   We have watched one in class and the reaction from the children was "it's awesome!" 

http://pbskids.org/rogers/picpic.html

The Great American Bake Sale

Information will be coming home soon about a planning meeting for a kindergarten project that will give children real life experience with our lessons about producers and consumers.  We will be participating in the Share Our Strength Project "The Great American Bake Sale."  We will be sending home a survey and holding a meeting soon to see which families are willing to participate.  This project will be a fund raiser for Share Our Strength.  Money raised through the bake sale will help to end childhood hunger.  For more information about the childhood hunger in the United States go to:  

http://gabs.strength.org/site/PageServer?pagename=GABS_learn

For more information about The Great American Bake Sale click on:
http://gabs.strength.org/site/PageServer?pagename=GABS_homepage

Governor O'Malley has set a goal for Maryland to be the first state to end childhood hunger.  For more information about his plan and the progress made so far, click on this link:

http://strength.org/state_partnerships/maryland/

Social Studies Indicators

Third Quarter

Explain that goods are things that people make or grow.

Identify situations where people make choices.

Recognize workers as human resources.

Describe some jobs and what is required to perform them.

Recognize that natural resources, such as water, trees and plants are used to make products.

Begin to be aware of technology and how it affects life.

Describe how buyers and sellers make exchanges at the market.

Explain that money is one way to acquire goods.

Explain that trading is another way to acquire goods.

Recognize that goods have different values.