Throughout the last month our class has been doing a project about stocks! We each choose 5 companies to invest a total of 20,000 dollars. I really liked this project because it was a good real life experience of how the stock market works, and how anything can change in the blink of an eye. Two teachers named Mrs. Donnelly, and Mrs. Sprague helped us a lot throughout the project, which was very helpful.
This project connects to the book we were reading called The Westing Game. One of the characters named Turtle Wexler loves the stock market, and reads the paper every morning about the stock market. Later in the book she invests in multiple companies making a lot and losing a lot of money. In the last chapter when she is older, the book says that she made 4 million dollars, lost it all, then made 6 million dollars. That is how powerful and often the market can change.
During this project we used a spreadsheet, and formulas to record all of our data throughout the month. This was incredibly helpful to keep everything nice, tidy, and overall easier to manage! I loved this project so much and I’m excited to see next years 6th graders do it too!