Saturday

The day started off with Nathan asking me how money was made.

So we jumped on YouTube and checked out a doco on the history of money making in America and modern mints.

We then looked up New Zealand's approach and found a document on how to identify real money opposed to counterfeit. So we got out some of our own notes and went through the guidelines and checked them out and noted all the special security features (our magnifying glass was not strong enough to pick up the micro printing though). Since I read the document out word for word, there were quite a few new words that we had discussions about including forgeries, counterfeit, fake, genuine, vertical, horizontal, transparent and serial numbers).

Last night Nathan was looking through the local newspaper that was sitting on the couch and suggested that we make another newspaper (he was also interested in the real estate section and the large amounts listed next to the houses as well as the symbols used to indicate how many bedrooms, bathrooms, living rooms etc and went through all the listings deciphering them). So after lunch we got to work. I asked him if he'd like to make one on the computer with columns and we could insert our photo's from our camping trips to go with the stories. He chose the font he liked for the newspaper name and dictated the stories while I wrote (and discussed over usage of "and then we" lol).

We printed it out, collated it before Nathan set to work stitching the pages together which he has been wanting to do for a while.

The rest of the afternoon was then spent checking out what vegetables were ready for picking and then off to play with a friend.

After dinner Danielle got out the Let's Shop game for us all to play.