Rehearsing and performing our class play 'Joseph the Dreamer' was lots of fun and we hope you enjoy the photos.

We then launched right into our Money Main Lesson.  But this main lesson is not just about how to make and spend money.  We have found out some of the interesting history and purpose of money.   

We have been investigating human qualities and moral concepts such as giving, sharing, trading, bartering, tricking/cheating, swapping, fair and unfair trades and swaps, goods and services.  This is all explored through stories, poems, discussions, activities and songs.

The Great Shell Swap saw us trading and bartering handfuls of shells with each other as we deliberated on the value and worth of our favourite shells and what would be swapped in a deal and which shells would not be traded at any cost!  Soon we learned that shells have really been used as a form of currency before.

The story and song of Stone Soup has been the inspiration for our Soup Stall.  We have been thinking about how growing produce, working to make the soup,  and collecting and counting the money are all part of a soup stall. 

But how is this different from giving soup to a family in need, sharing soup at the Winter Festival or the Denmark Soupy Community Kitchen?

Cooking up big pots of soup in the kitchen with Pamela has been lots of fun as we use garden produce and our measuring skills to work out many litres of soup are needed for each class in the school.  Chopping and frying and blending the vegetables into delicious soups has kept us busy.

Sorting the money, counting and adding and working out how to give change is sometimes a challenge and has given us the opportunity to really look at the notes and coins and hear about the Australian Mint in Canberra, which Maya recently visited with her family!