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Financial Literacy
Had a child who seems a little more obsessed about money than usual lately? Asking you about your wages? Suggesting you buy things from overseas because the exchange rate is ‘real good’ at the moment?! In room 7 we have continued our financial literacy on from the Rec Shed stock take by looking at all the things we should know about money by our year level.
We decided as a class that we wanted to look at exchange rates and have even already researched a pair of running shoes that Mrs Shaw would find useful. As the first part of our learning we have been looking at ‘Ka-ching’ our currency. We have found out about all the images on our coins, security features, inflation and even how to ‘skim’ a coin!
Thinking Tool - Flow Chart
As part of our learning we use thinking tools to help us organise information we come across during the process. The thinking tool we are learning to use at the moment are flow charts, these are to help us identify the steps taken in making New Zealand’s notes and coins. To complete a successful flow chart we need to…
* identify the key words
* use the key words to write about key events
* include all parts of the process in order
We are pretty awesome at using these now! Check out the results.
What a success!
Izzy and Dom show off the new equipment they ordered as winners of the rec shed stock take. The true results came as the rec shed opened at lunch time, there were queues all lunch time from the rec shed to room 7. The next test is to see how durable our choices were.
Thanks ‘Friends of Waverley!’
The ‘Friends of Waverley’ have donated money to re-stock our rec shed. Room 7 has undertaken the daunting task of a stock take of the rec shed. From there we have created a group budget of what we would like to see and tried to persuade the others that ours was the best use of the money.
The winning team’s budget will be used to buy new equipment. Watch this space
Bend, stretch, roll!
Today we had the wonderful Casey along to help us with our gymnastics teaching. She helped us with working out the progressions we need to take to perform perfect forwards & backwards rolls, handstands and cartwheels.
We will definitely be using these ideas in the future. Thanks Casey
As the last part of our inquiry ‘Active Living’ we have been training as personal trainers to teach others exercises about a variety of muscles in the body. We had a rubric to help us create the best DVD we could and tested with our buddies from room 8 to check that our moves were clear and easy to follow. The results were very amusing, go room 8 work it!
In room7 the reading group Fantails have been working really hard to modify the story the Three Little Pigs when they finished they showed it to the rest of room7 and heard some of our feedback and feed forward.We thought they did a really good job at working as a team and speaking loud and clear.
By Tiffany
We are now nearing the end of our first mini-petite, investigating the body. We have learnt about different body organs and their functions and also about how the skeletal system works. We are in the process of creating plasticine models showing the skeletal system and the more advanced are even showing the joints that are used to connect different bones. To prove we know heaps about this we have written an explanation about the skeletal system. Next week…. its the muscular system!
