Needs and Wants

Yesterday we started learning about the difference between ‘needs’ and ‘wants’.  We discussed what we thought the difference between each one was.  Miss Shearer then gave us 40 bits of paper with different items on them.  We had to imagine we could only select 16 of these items and had to only take the most important ones.  After we had done that she told us we now had to only choose 8 items.  This was tricky but we managed.  Then we had to choose only 4.  We had to really choose the things that were ‘needs’ rather than things that were ‘wants’.  We had to think carefully about sources of food and water and how these would help us to survive. 

 

 

 

It was very interesting having to think about what we actually need to survive.   In the end we decided clean water, seeds, fertile soil and some chickens were the best things to have.  We then discussed that some people don’t have access to these basic needs.  We are going to learn a bit more about this throughout the week.