NEEDS AND WANTS!

As part of our Financial Literacy Inquiry,  we explored the difference between NEEDS and WANTS.  

We found out that a need is something you CAN'T live without.  Things like a warm house,  family,  oxygen, sunlight,  water and food.

A want is something you'd LIKE to have but you CAN live without.   We'd all like some cool new toys and holidays overseas but we don't NEED them to survive.

We had to classify some pictures into NEEDS and WANTS.   It was very important that we were able to justify our decision of where we put each picture.

MARKET DAY!

Yesterday some girls from Pounamu Atawhai came and invited us to hold our own Market Day like what they do!

We we really excited but we have LOTS to decide.

We wrote down all our Wonderings...

When should we have our Market Day?
Where should we hold it?
What shall we sell?
How will we make the things?
How much will we sell them for?

Our teachers will help us answer these questions over the next few weeks!

We will keep you posted!

SCIENCE EXPO!

This weekend, Riverdale School children presented their amazing learning at our Science Expo.  We displayed what we found out about plants and showed some of our experiments.  We hope you were able to come along.

MRS PECK'S PROBLEM!

Guess what!

Mrs Peck needs our help!

She wrote to us today asking us if we could help her by planting some flowers in a couple of planter pots that she found in the storage shed down by the pool.  She'd like us to plant them so the pots can be on display at the Science Expo next week! 

Of course we said we would help - we are the best helpers EVER!

Mrs Peck has set us some criteria that we have to follow:

• The flowers must be in bloom for the Expo
• The plants can be no taller than 30cm high
• The flowers must be bright and attractive

We decided, like with any problem we have to solve, we'd better use Te Ako Ritenga (our Inquiry Process).

So today we started with WONDER...

Here are a few photos of us working in our STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths) groups.

We were busy brainstorming all the things we would need to know and do to help Mrs Peck.

Tomorrow we think we need to go down to the pool to find the pots so we can see EXACTLY what we are dealing with!

We will keep you informed of our progress...