In Tautoru this week we started to explore the world of money and Financial Literacy. Funnily enough our kids knew a lot about money and how it works. They had lots of experiences to share about travelling and seeing or using different currencies. Off the successes of our school fair we decided to set up our own market to help us learn in a real life context. Lots of fun was had creating and running our stalls. We could also practice adding and subtracting and even a dash of place value was included.
We settled on things to sell, put a price list together and off we went on our shopping sprees around the classroom.
There were great discussions and negotiations happening. We definitely had some big spenders and some thoughtful budgeters ! We explored the value of different coins and notes and it was an authentic real life context where we could include concepts we have been maintaining all year like addition, subtraction, and place value.
You can continue this learning at home by talking about the value of money, saving and making good choices. Games are great like Monopoly etc. Play shops, add prices and give change.
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