This week, together we read a bit more of the story of Justenuf. No, actually, not Justenuf,
Notenuf! The society changed their name after the computer that made sure that everyone
had enough of everything broke down. After their computer (Abun Dance) broke down, they
didn't have enough of everything, and that caused arguments. So, in order to try and solve this problem, the leader of Notenuf gave each family a set amount of seeds they could plant and
harvest for later on. The leader also gave each family some Nutri-Bags to keep them going whilst
they were waiting for the seeds to grow. This all seemed to be working pretty well until the
families started trading...
And so that was where we left it. We talked a bit about trading and then we moved on to our
sort of Micro society week topic. Our topic for this week was...
Currency is basically what you use to buy things. For example, our currency is money.
Around the world, currency is different. We (England) use pounds as our currency,
whereas other countries might use something different. Around the world people use
dollars, euros, rupees etc. Next, we played a sort of game where you were given all
these names of things and with your table you had to sort
them into groups of whether or not you thought
they could be used as currency. Everything apart
from Monopoly money made it on our table!
We thought even cows and sheep could be used
as currency...
To complete the week, we came up with a name
for our society's currency.(Our society was called
Brightland). In the end, our class agreed on Dox
as our currency name. We also chose the symbol
for Dox, which ended up like this:
Next, we all looked at the features of a pound note and used those features to create some
Dox notes. At the end, everyone voted on the set they liked best and that is how we created
our Dox notes.