The LIRA "£"
"ERASMUS PLUS" project and "grandparents at school" project
In January children of our Nursery school accompanied by grandparents and teachers, went to the “Medieval Castle”, in Turin, to have a look and practise the ancient way to mould coins. When we came to school, children create their coins with the manipulation technique.
On Monday, March 5th 2018 we continued our activity on “past/LIRA and present/EURO currency in Italy”. We did this always with help of grandparents.
Both groups (children and grandparents) were interviewed and answered a few questions about the Euro and the Lira.
Teachers asked to the children what currency we use today, how it is made, if it is used only in Italy or in other countries, if the Euro has always been used. Compared to the Lira, how it was made, where it was used, how comes the exchange of money, if it was easier to use the Lira.
Children watch the two interviews at the white interactive board, and each group listened to the answers given by the other group. Together with the teachers, children and grandparents sat in a circle, they compared the answers and discovered similarities and differences between the two coins:
- the LIRA was used only in Italy and with a few lire you could buy so many things
- The Euro is used in lots of countries in Europe, which decided to use the same currency, but with the Euro you can buy less things than Lire.
- Both currencies have metal coins and banknotes on which there are drawings.
Finally, the children together with the grandparents have therefore observed closely the Lire that the grandparents had brought and they were able to reproduce on the sheet the drawings of the coins putting under the sheet the different coins and bringing out the drawing by colouring with the pencil, "frottage technique ".
