Students learn to be entrepreneurs at Carter G. Woodson
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; * IMay 12 was Entrepreneur Day at
(jSrVCT G. Woodson School of Chal
]ipg? and several of the youngsters
; ilHjFflewed for this article said they
wapi Jo be business men or women
uiHfthey grow up.
;Xg|mantha Muhammad, a sec
(?Bpade teacher and coordinator
dHfitrepreneur Day, said, "This is
tfi8$ond year we've had it. We do
tffjjreally to give our students an
opportunity to show that they can
rhaja? things themselves and be pro
ducfive citizens in their community.
tXfe don't want them just to go to
iJtpol and go on to college, get a
degree and then go on to work for
ijmeone. We want them to go into
IjMsiness lor themselves and be a part
ij the community in that type of
wpy."
! -At Entrepreneur Day, she said.
"We have lots of different types of
food items fish fries, grilled chick
<in? Y^e have some snack foods,
chjp&... We'll have some popcorn,
ootton candy. We have a lot of arts
and crafts that the children made as
vyell. "We have children that made
sand art by themselves. They made
name bracelets, key chains We've
got flower pots. Mother's Day
cards..pencil holders...They also
came up with some creative games
which I thought was nice. We're
going to have a basketball tourna
ment and a w^t sponge relay race.
Hopefully that will cool them down
with this hot sun today.
"We're just excited about having
them put their hands together to
produce something and make some
thing that they will be proud of and
that they can sell. The money
they'll make a profit off of it and
they'll be able to have a pizza party in
the class or buy themselves some
thing. Another portion of it will go
to the school. It's a school fund-rais
er as well as you'll have an opportu
nity to have some fun.
"Every grade (kindergarten
through eighth grade) participates
We give them a list of ideas They
come up with their own ideas The
teachers of course, are assisting
them (man the tables at Entrepre
neur Day), but they were assigned to
collect money. They have to know
how much change they are going to
give back to the people. They keep a
tally of things they've sold.. Usually
when we do this we do a couple of
lessons in the classroom about profit
or loss, marketing, advertising; so
they've been waiting lor this to hap
pen and practicing some business eti
quette for a while now. It also tics in,
especially with my grade, second
grade, with good customer service.
We talk to them about how you
speak to people, how you treat peo
ple..."
Shakima Jeter, a second-grader
in Lateefah Razzak's class, was sell
ing toys, bookmarks, cupcakes,
chips, juice, freeze cups and candies,
"I learned about art work, making
things and other stuff," Shakima
said.
Sandra L. Jeter, Shakima smoth
er. said, "She learned a lot about arts
and crafts, and how to do different
things, how to become a sales per
son." Ms. Jeter said Shakima had
fun too.
Jeter said of Entrepreneur Day:
"I think it's real nice. I'm very excit
ed."
Joshua Mack, another student of
Razzak, said, "I learned
about...adding and subtracting and
counting money."
Razzak said, "Since our main
theme this year was phonics and
reading, we wanted to make book
marks....As we progressed in our
work they developed to where they
wanted to put their names on their
bookmarks to identify their work . .
"The other arts and crafts idea
they did was decorating sea shells. I
got those sea shells from Edisto
Beach in South Carolina. I brought
them back and our idea was to see
what we could create. We have a vari
ety of colors and designs over there
that the children have done. We had
a wonderful time doing it. ..
"We've been working in math all
along, talking about numbers and
counting money and adding and
subtracting and how you recognize
whether or not you are getting the
right amount of money by the way
you subtract and add,..
"The whole idea of entrepre
neurship is how to treat the cus
tomers when they come in and how
to add and subtract to make sure you
are giving them their proper money
and making sure you get your prop
er money."
Sandra Wright told about her
fourth-grade students' project. "We
took old beer bottles and... old but
tons and sluiV that we had. and we
made flower vases."
They started by covering the bot
tles with newspaper or brown paper
towels, using wall paper paste. "We
took our time and we painted them
(the bottles)." Wright said. Then they
added buttons, ribbons, beads, any
thing they had at home that they
eould use.
"We (also) made necklaces."
Wright said. "Another teacher had
some cord. I went and bought the
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