{"id":347623,"date":"2010-02-21T16:35:18","date_gmt":"2010-02-21T21:35:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/archives\/2391"},"modified":"2010-02-21T16:35:18","modified_gmt":"2010-02-21T21:35:18","slug":"teaching-economics-with-children%e2%80%99s-literature-market-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/347623","title":{"rendered":"Teaching Economics with Children\u2019s Literature: Market Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Introduction and Summary
\n<\/strong>Market Day<\/a>, written and\u00a0designed\u00a0by Lois Ehlert<\/a>, tells the story of a family preparing to take goods they have made and grown to the Market. The story starts off with a child going around to do their daily chores which include feeding the chickens corn, pulling up carrots, packing tomatoes, feeding the rooster, turkey, and goose and loading up the truck. The child reminds us, “Lock the gate tight so they [the animals] won’t get loose.”\u00a0\u00a0 The story uses very pretty folk art for the illustrations. The child goes on to say that the reason they go to the market is “to buy and to sell…” The artwork is amazing in this story!<\/p>\n

Curriculum Connections
\n<\/strong>This book shows how people have to work to make money. In this book, the whole family helps with planting, growing, and harvesting food as well as making goods to sell at the market for profit. This family sells foods and goods, to make a living in order to buy items for themselves (VA Social Studies SOL 1.7).\u00a0 This book also shows a great deal of artwork, and could be used to help inspire students to make their own artwork about jobs that people have and how and where they work.<\/p>\n

Additional Resources
\n<\/strong>1. Market Day\/Spanish Lesson Plan<\/a>– This lesson plan has a great idea for doing your own Market Day in the classroom. Students will buy and sell goods (fruits, vegetables, and other food items) to each other. While they are doing this, they are also learning the Spanish name for each item and learning about the Open Air Markets that Latin America has.\u00a0 Great use for buying and selling goods, multiculturialism, and learning about Latin America. This lesson plan has a heavy focus on incorporating Spanish, but it does use the book in the lesson plan.
\n2.Consumer and Producer Lesson Plan<\/a>– The lesson plan provides activities for teaching about consumers and producers. It is very short and simple, but using the book Market Day in the lesson plan to explain and tie in the vocabulary words of “consumer” and “producer” would be beneficial.
\n3. Farmer’s Market<\/a>– This site provides a list of activities and coloring sheets about fruits and vegetables. It also has some songs and recipes. This is more on the level of a Kindergartner, but it could be incorporated with the book. It helps show children what a market would look like where we live, why people use them, and the importance of having a market.<\/p>\n

General Information
\nBook: <\/strong>Market Day
\n<\/a>Author: <\/a><\/strong>Lois Ehlert<\/a>
\nIllustrator: <\/strong>Designed by Lois Ehlert<\/a>
\nPublisher:<\/strong> Voyager Books, Harcourt, Inc.
\nPublication Date:<\/strong>2000
\nPages:<\/strong> 36
\nGrade Range:<\/strong> K-2nd
\nISBN: <\/strong>978-0-15-2168209<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00a0 Introduction and Summary Market Day, written and\u00a0designed\u00a0by Lois Ehlert, tells the story of a family preparing to take goods they have made and grown to the Market. The story starts off with a child going around to do their daily chores which include feeding the chickens corn, pulling up carrots, packing tomatoes, feeding the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4440,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-347623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4440"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=347623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347623\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}