Renee+H

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Great Job so far Renee! ~Ms Ross

March 18th i finished the glogster. About a week ago looked up 2 different stocks. About 3 weeks ago I created the wikispace. I found the McCormick stock, and the Rent-A-Canter stock...i also looked up another stock but it was too expensive to buy. **


 * March 19th I embedded the gloster into the main page of the wikispace. Also, today I looked up hawk Corp and on March 10th it was in the news. It said that it was going down a little. Rent-A-Center was also in the news on March 5th because their employees are buying $1 paper eggs to benifit the orginazation Big Brothers Big Sisters. This will provide support for children who are maybe less fortunate. McCormick & Co.Inc. has been doing ok.The shares have not been going up. yesterday their price per share were down.

March 22st I embedded the stock market class rankings into the wikispace. None of the stocks were in play recently. Hawk Inc. closed friday with a 19.04 per share. Hawk Inc. has been going down alot lately so hopefully this week it will go back up. McCormick & Co. Inc closed at 39.10 and Rent-A-Center closed at 22.74.**


 * March 23rd I put pictures into the glogster and created a glogster for my page. Hawk Corp is down today.

March 24th Yesterday our team callaberated in class and decided to buy 100 shares of BIDU and 10 shares of Google**.**Also, I was looking at all the stocks we have and RCII,HWK, and MKC are our most growth. They have growed by atleast 1000per share.

March 25 I got this idea that after the big stocks go back up such as Google and BIDU that we should get rid of them and buy more shares of our smaller stocks. The smaller companies having been giving us many gains compared to the bigger stocks that we currently own.

March 26 Arianna and I were discussing stocks this morning and think that if BIDU continues to go down that we should sell it. Also, that we could put more money into RCII ansd HWK. Also, this morning I put the link to our recent stock we just bought. Another thing I did was change the link to glogster to** [|**www.edu.glogster.com**] **instead of it going to the glogster I already created.

April 6 I checked the stock market game page and we seem to be doing better than normal becuase we sold those big stocks. I think we should put the rest of the money into the smaller stocks because they have been going up alot. I think our portfolio value would go up.

April 7 I checked our portfolio and we seem to be doing well. I really think that we should discard the Google and ATML. We have 1000 shares of ATML and its only earned us $8!! Thats not good. Finally Google has gone back up so we really need to get rid of that. Campbell soup has made the most profit in our portfolio. I think we should buy more shares of Campbell Soup Co., Hawk Corp, and Rent-A-Center. Also, I think our team could be doing better at communicating and working together on this team project.

April 8 I was looking up our stocks and they went down. Of course google went down too...so, im guessing we lost alot of money there. I hoped to get rid of it yesterday but no teammates looked at the wikispace postings. So, I didnt want to make decisions on my own since it is a team project. I did copy and paste the graphs of the 3 months of all the stocks and researched how well they are doing.

April 12 I wrote a reply to Kerrie's post. Rent-A-Center and Hawk Corp has gone down today. RCII is at 23.65 per share and HWK is at 20.36 per share. Campbell Soup Co. is up today. CPB is up at 35.45 per share today. ATML is up today and is at 5.35 per share. Today we really need to get rid of this stock because it is up. McCormick& Co. Inc is down today by 38.43 per share. I think if we got rid of McCormick and Atmel companies and put our money into Campbell Soup that we would go up. Also, I posted a comment on Mark's page. I do not know how to do the RSS feeds therefore I asked Mark to.

April 13 I updated the graphs on the wikispace and checked to see how are stocks are doing.

Conlusion to the Stock Market Game: During this game I contributed to my team by creating the wikispace, made decisions about what stocks to buy, research on the stocks, looked up the stocks, put bar graphs on the wikispace, put links to the game and to our stocks, and many more things. I maintained a chronology of the work that I did on my wikispace page.

I learned that the stock market goes up and down and has a variety of companies involved in the market. The stock market can have a very good day in prices per shares and then the next day they drop really low.

If I had another 10 weeks to play this game I would buy littler stocks. I would sell all the big stocks and put all my money into the smaller stocks. I would also want to do the game by myself because no one helped me much. Once in a while there was little conversation but not much. I think that maybe a smaller group or doing it by myself would be good. **