As part of our number work in Maths we have begun some work using money. We spent some time sorting coins and made many discoveries about different currencies. John mentioned 'heads and tails' so we learned how to identify the 'head' and 'tail' side of the coin. Some of us remembered this from a previous math game in the class. Then we took a closer look at Singaporean money and discovered there are 3 different coins for the 5c and 10c and 2 different coins for the 20c, 50c and $1. We had a look at some one cent coins which you can still spend in the shops - they they are not made any more. Next we spent some time labelling items for our class shop and attached price tags to pretend food. Then we used coins to play shopping games and had a lot of fun at the same time.
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This week we began our new unit 'How We Organise Ourselves' with the central idea 'Food goes on a journey to get to our plates'. For a provocation we took a trip out to the Hay Dairy goat farm. During the trip we saw the goats being milked, learned some interesting facts about goats and had the opportunity to feed them Alfalfa grass. We are interested to find out more about where other foods and drinks come from and the processes that they go through before we enjoy eating and drinking them.
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