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Neighbors | Abby Slanker.A C.H. Campbell Elementary School third-grader took his turn mixing the hot chocolate mixture with a wisk during the school’s Hot Chocolate Shoppe on Feb. 2.
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Neighbors | Abby Slanker.A C.H. Campbell Elementary School third-grader held up the final hot cocoa product during the school’s Hot Chocolate Shoppe on Feb. 2.
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Neighbors | Abby Slanker.A third-grade student at C.H. Campbell Elementary School measured the powdered milk with great precision for the hot chocolate mixture her class was making during the school’s Hot Chocolate Shoppe on Feb. 2.
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Neighbors | Abby Slanker.A third-grade student at C.H. Campbell Elementary School received help with measuring sugar for a hot chocolate mixture from a parent volunteer during the school’s Hot Chocolate Shoppe on Feb. 2.
By ABBY SLANKER
Third-grade students at C.H. Campbell Elementary School opened a Hot Chocolate Shoppe for a day Feb. 2.
The Hot Chocolate Shoppe provided the students with real world hands-on experience as mini entrepreneurs.
The students were responsible for inventorying supplies, applying for jobs, creating a product assembly line and sales.
The students were assigned to a station on the assembly line which was set up in the classroom. Students performed their jobs at the stations, such as measuring powdered milk, sugar, creamer, cocoa, stirring the mixture, measuring the mixture and putting it in bags and making sure the bag was closed, stapling directions on the bag, checking the order forms and filling the orders and stapling the bag closed and decorating the bags.
C.H. Campbell third-grade teacher Kristin Hartshorn served as CEO of her classroom’s operation.
“I am the CEO today and you are my human resources. Only people who work hard and use their time wisely get paid. We want to see efficient workers, not lazy workers,” Hartshorn told the students.
The Hot Chocolate Shoppe is part of a cross curricular unit on literacy, social studies and economics.
“This gives our students an understanding of what a business looks like, and feels like in a tangible way to understand the curriculum,” said Hartshorn.
Hartshorn told the students to save all the packaging from their supplies so they could figure out how much money they made at the Hot Chocolate Shoppe at the end of the day.
“We are a profit sharing shop, not a salaried shop, so we need to know how much we made today,” Hartshorn told the students.
Parent volunteers assisted by donating the supplies, working as supervisors on the assembly line and acting as customers. The students took orders from their families and then delivered the hot chocolate to their customers at home.
“The students sold the product, using paper money,” said Hartshorn.