Milo’s Money across the curriculum
Milo’s Money is designed for 5-7 year olds to be used to engage children when teaching about money. However, Milo also works well to help teach other subjects.
The story of Milo’s Money lends itself really well to be used as the basis of a cross curricular project. Although the links to Mathematics and PSHE are clear and explicit, other curriculum areas could easily fit into a unit of work to make a holistic learning experience for the children with Milo at the centre.
Milo is a very likeable character and children will love to encounter him throughout the school day. This also gives teachers the chance to fully reinforce the key themes throughout the book whilst exploiting the opportunity to develop learning in other areas at the same time.
There are many ways in which essential parts of the English curriculum could use Milo as a context, as with any literature study. The themes in Milo’s Money will provide many opportunities for developing writing, speaking and listening activities and reading. There are many specific activities which use writing skills or provide contexts for discussions within the resources.
Other curriculum ideas could also be adapted with Milo as a context. There are many opportunities within the story to explore healthy choices in Science and Technology, this could be expanded into a design idea by looking at inventing smoothies.
As Milo’s Money is a very visual resource, there are also strong links to Art, especially imaginative work, drawing/painting scenes from Milo’s ‘world’, designing new dinosaurs, modelling/sculpting houses.
Children can develop their Computing skills by looking at finding and loading the Milo shopping game on the Milo website. This will enable them to learn about finding things on a computer or tablet screen, inputting information and seeing consequences of their actions on screen.
As Milo is firmly rooted in his own community, there are also good opportunities to link this into some geographical thinking too, giving children a contrast to their own developing sense of place.
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