ASB GetWise Session

Today Amie visited us from the ASB GetWise Programme to teach us a bit about MONEY!! We learned that:
-If you take your time you can find things for a better price.
-You have to use a special card to get into an account. This is an EFTPOS card and is different to a Credit Card. Eftpos cards mean you can get your own money from your account. Credit Cards are using the bank's money and you have to pay it back in a certain amount of time.
-4 numbers make up a pin number on a card.
-We need to work to get money.
-It's important to do jobs at home so that mums and dads don't have to do everything.

End of Term 1

We concluded our Sustainability study last term with a walk to the beach to clean up. It was a nice way to finish up since we had been to the beach at the very beginning of the term too. We gathered a lot of rubbish..in particular lots of plastic. We know we've made a difference by stopping that plastic entering our ocean.

Sustainability and Drama

We have been learning about Sustainability through our Science Inquiry and also through Process Drama. We created an imaginary seaside town and created roles for ourselves within that town. We then imagined how we would deal with a problem in the town which was some students had come in from out of town and made a big mess on the beach. We explored through freeze frame how the people of the town felt about that. One of the students visited us in role (Mrs Fletcher in disguise) and we held a meeting. We interviewed and questioned the student about their actions and explained to the student why it wasn't appropriate. We explored things like pollution and the effect on businesses and the environment. Then we did another freeze frame to show how we felt after the meeting. Here are some of our freeze-frames. We REALLY enjoyed drama with Mrs Fletcher!!! She's fantastic.

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