Tales Up

Heaps has happened throughout the last week. We decided on a name, the class all put their ideas together and then voted. We also voted on a logo, and named it! So the company is Tales Up and the logo is Mike the fish.

 Company meeting, around the pool shown in photo further down. The children on the floor are actually on flotation devices in the pool (in case you were wondering!).

 An idea for in the bookshop, the children thought it would be better to have some kind of vehicle to get around the shop, rather than trolleys. There were lots of really "out there" ideas.

 Another vehicle for use in the shop. Amazing how many included labels without any prompting from me - excuse the spelling!

 The "Mike" with the most counters on it was the winner. Jessica's logo, Izzy's colouring.

 The pool where one of our meetings was held. Pretty flash!

 This is another room on the building plans.

Here is the bookshop where our books will be sold. We made it fit the empty area on the ground floor of the building. The orange is the shop, the rest are offices and other rooms that were very necessary to have in our business.


Getting back to our week, we wrote a mission statement. It is a mixture of ideas and was completed after a meeting where everyone brought along their business diaries (inquiry books) and wrote frantic notes during discussion. It was actually pretty neat to see those reluctant writers putting ideas down with such enthusiasm :) The diary idea was one of those things where I just thought I'd call it a business diary rather than inquiry book. Now they bring their business diaries to every meeting without even being asked to! And they are writing in them!

Today we talked about our shop opening and how we might promote it. I didn't even have to prompt them, we had a meeting and I said that the shop was ready, what now? They came up with the idea of advertising to promote their books because how would anyone know we were even open and I was like, wow! We each have 2 books to put on the shelves (pretend books, but they have all shared the imaginary books and discussed what they are about and titles and illustrations etc) so we thought we should price them and work out an average price because being fair, we should all share the profits. So after recording 42 different prices on the board, the class spent a good 15 minutes using every numeracy strategy known to them to add them all up and divide by 42. Results varied, as you can imagine, but eventually we did it together on the board with everyone sharing how to add up such a lot of numbers, and came to an average price of $17.59, which we rounded up to $17.60. And I know there was great learning going on but we didn't even get to how we will promote and advertise because we run out of time. Oh well, it was fun. So what next for us? I am thinking that because they are referring to the company as theirs, and using "us" and "we" that it might be time for the commission. But I still want to do the advertising thing because that will be fun too. Is it OK to do that I wonder? Or is it too much? Advertising could be a whole big thing all by itself. Something for me to think about over the weekend.