One of our Mathematic topics this term is investigating Australian money. We have been learning about dollars and cents and how we can tell each coin and note apart. We have learnt that our money has lots of famous Australian people and animals on it! Our goal is to be able to place all the coins and notes in order according to their value and to use coins to show the price of items.
This terms inquiry unit is titled ‘Necessity – Raw to Ready’. We have begun our investigations into this topic by discussing needs and wants under the headings of food, shelter and clothing. We have realised that some of the things we enjoy eating, playing with and wearing aren’t really affecting our survival. Unfortunately some of the things we want are things we don’t always need!
To link our learning to real life we have created a class market. We voted on the name of the market and decided on ‘Year One Blue Fresh Food Market’. We worked in pairs to create posters advertising what we have on offer!
We are having a fabulous time shopping and are putting our knowledge of money to good use!
We worked in pairs to create a poster advertising an item from our market. We had to make sure we wrote the $ in the correct position.
Some of our finished posters advertising our market items!
Our market is open for business and awaiting it’s first customers!
Working out the cost of our items and the change we need to give back.
