Record Breaking Cookbook Sales!

 This was a very exciting year for the 2nd graders as we continued to reach every cookbook sale goal we set!  Classes generally go into the sales with the goal of selling at least 100 cookbooks.  We quickly surpassed that, and by the end of the three weeks, we sold 347 cookbooks! We made $451 thanks to generous customers along the way. Thank you so much to everyone who supported our class in this project!  With the money we earned we do four things:

1) pay back the school for printing supplies

2) buy something we need for our classroom

3) buy something we want for our classroom

4) use money to help someone

The first order of business we had to take care of was to pay back the school for printing supplies.  This is such a good lesson for the students as they come to understand that supplies are not free when you are running a business.  We pay back the school two cents for each page copied.  This year our cookbooks were 25 pages, so this meant we paid back the school 50 cents per cookbook.

We invited Mr. Semmen into our classroom today to pay back $173.50.  We talked with Mr. Semmen about what we are doing with the remainder of the money.  Once we had established how much would be paid back for printing supplies, we discussed who we wanted to help with our money.  We decided on a 2nd grade boy in Spring Grove who is currently going through cancer treatment.  The students quickly decided they wanted to donate $150 to this boy and his family.  I was so proud of the class for their generosity.  When the class shared with Mr. Semmen their plan to donate this money to Grady in Spring Grove, he asked us to take $100 back from what we paid the school and add that to our donation.  We are so thankful to Mr. Semmen and Mr. Schultz for making this decision.  Now we are able to donate $250 to Grady!

This leaves a remainder of $127.50 for the class to purchase supplies that we need and some things that we want.  A need that the students have decided on is some sort of new blinds or curtains for our window.  Our current blinds don't work very well, and on really sunny days, there are spots in the room that are too bright.  Some wants the students have discussed are maybe a few new pillows and books.   

Thanks again to everyone for helping to make this such a successful project!  I will continue to update in future posts on what the class has decided to purchase.  If you try a recipe from the cookbook, we'd love to see a picture and post it on our blog!