Creating Together

Overview

In this 60-minute hands-on workshop, Year 1 students will begin creating their products based on their Market Day plans. They will apply their budding understanding of budgeting to ensure their product materials stay within financial limits. Emphasis is placed on collaboration, creativity, and practical problem-solving, aligned to the New Zealand Curriculum Refresh and integrating your school values: ako runga (learning), manaakitanga (care), pono (integrity), and whanaungatanga (relationships).

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Learning Objectives (Aligned to NZ Curriculum Refresh)

Business Capability Focus (adapted for Year 1 socio-economic understanding):

• Understand that making and selling products involves planning and managing resources (Progress Outcome: Developing awareness of how goods and services meet needs and wants – Social Sciences/Technology links).
• Apply basic budgeting concepts by choosing materials within a financial limit.
• Collaborate respectfully and contribute ideas and effort in groups (Key Competencies: Participating and Contributing; Managing Self).
• Use oral language and simple vocabulary to describe their product and process (English learning area – oral communication and vocabulary development).

Key Curriculum References:

• English: Using oral language to communicate ideas clearly (Te Mātaiaho, Phase 1, Years 0-3)
• Social Sciences/Technology: Recognising how people create products to meet needs and wants, starting to plan and make products
• Key Competencies: Managing self, Participating and contributing
• Personal Development: Developing vocabulary about emotions and collaborative skills

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Lesson Plan Schedule

Time	Activity	Details
0-10 mins	Warm-up & Review	- Recap previous Market Day planning and budgeting lessons. - Use a quick game: "Material match" to identify materials from their plans and guess costs.
10-15 mins	Set Expectations & Explain Workshop Purpose	- Discuss importance of staying within budget (tying to honesty/pono). - Introduce teamwork norms reflecting manaakitanga and whanaungatanga.
15-50 mins	Product Creation Time	- Children work in pairs/groups of 3 to start making their product. - Teacher and aides circulate, prompt budgeting decisions, support communication. - Encourage students to discuss and share ideas. Make use of flexible grouping as recommended in NZ Curriculum Refresh.
50-55 mins	Clean-up & Organising Materials	- Guided clean-up, reinforcing responsibility (ako runga).
55-60 mins	Reflection & Sharing	- Circle time to share progress, challenges, and solutions. - Teacher models language to describe what they made and budget choices. - Gather student voice on how they felt working together.

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Detailed Activity Description

Warm-up & Review (10 mins)

• Materials needed: Picture cards of materials from plans and cards showing simple prices.
• Use a "Material match" activity: Show picture/material cards and discuss what materials each group plans to use and their cost.
• Reinforce budgeting vocabulary ("cost," "money," "stay under budget").

Setting Expectations (5 mins)

• Gather students and discuss group values.
• Emphasise kindness and sharing (manaakitanga), honesty in choices (pono), and working together (whanaungatanga).
• Clarify that their goal is to start making their product together using their plan, remembering the money they can spend.

Product Creation (35 mins)

• In small groups based on previous plans, students start assembling materials into their product.
• Teacher facilitates with guiding questions:
  • "Is this material in your budget?"
  • "How can you share materials with others?"
  • "What do you think will make your product special?"
• Provide choices of safe, accessible materials that reflect their budgets.
• Scaffold and support communication with sentence stems like: "I think we should use...", "We need to save some money for..."
• Encourage use of digital tools if available for visual checklists or budgets, but prioritise hands-on collaboration.
• Provide visual charts showing budget limits and progress.

Clean-up & Organising Materials (5 mins)

• Reinforce responsibility and respect for shared spaces.
• Use clean-up songs or routines to make this engaging.

Reflection & Sharing (5 mins)

• Bring class together; teacher guides discussion to encourage children to use vocabulary about product making and budgeting.
• Use questions such as:
  • "What did you enjoy about making your product?"
  • "How did you make sure you stayed in your budget?"
  • "How did you help your friends?"
• Encourage expressing feelings and strategies to overcome challenges, linking to self-regulation and metacognition (English and social competencies)

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Assessment (Informal Observations)

• Teacher notes participation levels in collaborative work and ability to make simple budgeting decisions.
• Listen for use of business-related vocabulary and group communication.
• Observe how students apply values (ako runga, manaakitanga, pono, whanaungatanga) in practical situations.
• Use anecdotal records and quick checklists for verbal expression and group cooperation.

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Resources Needed

• Product plan worksheets from previous lessons.
• Variety of arts & craft materials (paper, glue, paint, recycled goods).
• Visual budget charts.
• Picture cards and price tags.
• Clean-up supplies.
• Seating arranged for group work.

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Tips for Engagement with Boys and Hands-On Learners

• Use kinaesthetic approaches — allow movement while gathering materials.
• Make budget visual and tactile (e.g., play money, counters).
• Encourage role play as market stall owners, discussing their products with peers.
• Incorporate challenges such as "Can you make this with only X dollars?" to engage problem solving.

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Integration of School Values and Cultural Responsiveness

• Honour ako runga by encouraging perseverance and curiosity in product making.
• Promote manaakitanga through sharing and caring during group work.
• Embed pono by reinforcing honesty in budgeting and materials usage.
• Foster whanaungatanga with collaborative tasks and shared reflections.

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This detailed lesson design aims to bring your Market Day Mastery unit alive through purposeful, curriculum-aligned, and culturally integrated hands-on learning that speaks directly to Year 1 learners in New Zealand.

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If you want, I can also generate a printable teacher outline or student-friendly checklist for this lesson!