StartSmart Financial Literacy Incursion

This week is MoneySmart week and we celebrated with a financial literacy incursion from StartSmart.  Every class attended the incursion over three days and the feedback has been very positive.  Room 23 learned the slogan "spend some on you and save some too!"

Coach Cash started us off with some warm ups... pick an orange... sell an orange ...happy dance because we made some money..

We then looked at the notes and coins in Australian currency.  We learned how a keycard works and used the "tinternet" to show this! (haha) We learned that the eftpos machine is a computer that talks to the computer at the bank to let the shop know if we have enough money to pay for out purchases.  We also talked about how we keep track of how much money we have in our account and what an ATM is.
 

Finally we looked at purchasing some sneakers from three different shops.  We had to compare the prices and benefits of three different shops and decide which one was the best one to purchase shoes from.  What we learned here was "be aware, compare, there's better prices out there!"