Candy Store Project

On Friday Grade 5 launched the Candy Store Project that will cover the last math unit for this year.

Grade 5 students are now choosing a theme and  name for their candy store. After that, they get to choose what candy to put in it! They will add candy displays to their store using the dimensions and requirements given.

During this sweet project, kids will practice graphing points on a coordinate plane, fractions, decimal operations and develop geometry skills.

Below is the criteria for the the first part of the project.

LS Grade 5 Math Candy Shop Sign Rubric

Directions for the sign of the Candy Shop. This is an individual part of the project and students will have plenty of time to work on it during class time, however they could need extra time at home to finish it. Please, use the assignments planner to manage your time wisely.
Store sign:
Whether it's jelly beans, chocolate or bubblegum, people young and old, in large metropolitan cities and small rural areas enjoy eating candy. Candy stores are a business that can be run in many ways, and it is a feasible venture to start for both new and experienced entrepreneurs. Running a candy store can be exciting and profitable, but to be successful, you must carefully plan the launch and growth of your business. Once you have selected a theme for your candy store business with your team, (for instance, you can specialize in selling organic candy, gourmet chocolates, homemade confections, or old-fashioned and nostalgic candies.), you are going to design the store sign. Each candy store will have as many signs as team members. Have in mind that good retail signage tells customers what or why they are looking at a selection of merchandise. A great store sign has to capture the customer’s interest enough to read it; just like a great email subject line gets someone to open it, a great headline in a newspaper gets someone to read it or a great magazine cover makes someone buy it. Here is your rubric to create a compelling retail signage
Be short and to the point. Customers are in hurry; respect that.
Make sure the fonts you use are easy to read. Clear font characters - without curly-cues and multiple colors - let the customer’s attention first gravitate to your message and then to your product. If customers can’t quickly read it (see above), they’ll move on.
State the customers’ reasons for buying your product or service. What is the customer buying this for? To be a hero to his son? To look fabulous for a date? To have easy-to-manage hair? Then tell them, “Be a hero tonight with this.” “Make heads turn!” “Manage curly hair with this.”
Less is still more.A recent article in the Wall Street Journal said people were shortening text messages down to a of couple words, a couple of initials, or a single emoticon. We are all getting used to short, succinct messages.
Test your sign. Ask a friend to tell you what your sign is about. If they can’t get it - edit, edit,edit.
Have fun. Boring signs are, well, boring. Remember, your goal is to grab a casual buyer's attention. Use color.
Your sign should be presented as a triangle on a 8 1/2 x 14 plotted in graphing paper - provided at school - showing the ordered pairs
The area of the triangle must be at least 13 square in and no more than 130 square cm.