I first want to remember my first Year 4 class as we did some amazing things.
We set up a whole money system in the class, we were called Learningville, and each citizen had a 'job' they had to do each day for a week. We had the normal stuff like the technicians who's job it was to turn the laptops on in the morning and off in the afternoon, the mail man/lady who did notices etc, then we had police officers who gave out tickets to people who were disturbing the peace in Learningville (ie talking when we were trying to learn, leaving gear lying around, coming to class late, even not pushing in chairs!) We had the doctor who held the special kit with plasters in it and the librarian who kept our class library looking beautiful. Each child was 'paid' to come to school each day, and got a bonus if they had their diaries out, signed on their desks before the bell went.
We had pay day on Fridays and the class was buzzing every week. We counted in tens and hundreds and talked about place value. All the children also put money into a 'class savings' account, they had to get to a certain amount by the end of the term to have the celebration they chose (we ahd a market day one term, pjs, popcorn and a movie another) Each week we used our calculators (or just our minds) to add up how much we had. The children could also 'purchase' things with their own money, from computer time, to taking 2 friends out for a game or the whole class. Then the Police officers would go around with their notebooks and collect ticket money.
It was an amazing learning process and I can't pinpoint every bit of learning that came with it because it was so enriched in everything we did. Learningvillle grew and changed over the year as the class came up with different rules and our treaty was re-written and signed many times!
I don't want to forget this idea as it was so valuable and I hope to do it again one day.
We also had a class wiki, the link is below.
Learningville wiki
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