Microsociety!

This week in Microsociety we have been learning about currency and how to keep it safe and being affluent with it. (Affluent means being good with money and handling it well). To do this Mr Woods told us to bring our Monopoly sets to school on Tuesday. Because we didn't have any space in our class timetable, we couldn't play on Tuesday. I was disappointed at first because we couldn't play but then I realised that I didn't bring my Monopoly Empire set yet so felt relieved and we didn't do Microsociety that day.

On Wednesday, we played Monopoly and I was playing on Sara's set, which was Monopoly Junior, against Jeong Ho, Sara, Katie, Sasha and Harish. After exactly 10 minutes of playing, I had bought 2 houses and they were both worth $1100 and $950 so if anyone landed on them they'd have had to pay me the price they were worth. In 20 minutes, I had landed in prison twice but bought my way out. Harish also landed on my houses twice so he was now broke and he was in debt with the bank. After thirty minutes, Jeong Ho also owed me $1100 and owed the bank as well. Sasha was also owing me and the bank money and I was the richest by far. Sasha then paid herself out of debt and me when Harish landed on her space at this time Harish was even more in debt and couldn't buy anything so he couldn't win at all. As soon as 40 minutes was up (which was how long we had to play), we counted how much money we had got then decided who was the winner. I was the winner in my group and I knew that Aaron was in his group and Puvisha was in hers. Mr Woods then told us that the winners won because they invested in the best properties.

On Thursday, we decided the currency for Rigopolis instead of pounds and pence. We called it Oras and Orrions. We decided on the symbols and notes then how much each person should get. We decided that every person should get 200 oras and 10 orrions was the same as 1 Ora.

We learnt a lot that week like not to be foolish with money and to keep it safe and not to give it to silly causes or to people who will sell it away.