Earn and Learn - Traffic LIght Thinking Routine

Before we embark our last term of Earn and Learn we have asked the children to do a "Traffic Light Thinking Routine" about how they think Earn and Learn has been going over the last three terms. Thinking routines help us organise our thoughts and record our thinking. In this routine the children had three things to consider:

Green: Things about Earn and Learn that work well/ things you want to keep.

Yellow: Things you want to change.

Red: Things that don't work and you want to get rid of.

Some of their thoughts are recorded below:

Green:

Eleni: I like the way that earn and learn goes for an hour. I think it is a good amount of time.

Chris: I like having a person in each shop because then you get more maths done. There is no one to help you accept the customers.

Ace: I think we should keep rent because otherwise the government would get no money except for the fines.

Eirini: I think we should keep the cash books because you can look at how much you have sold in the end.

Spencer: I think we should continue to record what people have spent, because then you are doing more maths.

Olive: I like the way the shops are all close to each other.

Isabella L: I think we should not pay rent and just keep the money that we earn

Yellow:

James: I think that we should change the prices of things, because somethimes the prices are too high and peolpe dont have enohg money to buy the things they want.

Louiza: In the cinema we could change the movies every now and then because we always watch the same movie.

Auguste: I would like to change the amount of fines in each session so we should have less fines. I think people should just do the right thing anyway.

Jeffrey: I think we should pay more tax because some of the business have too much money. (Jeffrey works for the government in Earn and Learn!)

Red:

Henry: I think we should allow less people into the cinema because it gets too crowded.

Mohamed: I would like people to line up better as they keep crowding around and I don't know who is next.

James: I dont want to pay rent because sometimes we don't have enough money.


Claudia: I think we should change the rent to $5. $10 is way too much!

Auguste: I don't like the free pass system, because it takes away some of the maths.