Penny Wars

Webster has Penny Wars every fall. Pennies and dollars are positive points ($0.01 = 1 point) when put in a grade level jar, but silver coins are negative points. The grade with the most points wins an extra recess! The money goes to the PTA.

Calvin has figured out the game and has added sabotage to his vocabulary. Every morning this week he has been asking friends in kinder if they have $20 bills so that they can get 2000 points. This morning he had his bag of pennies and some dollar bills to add to the kinder jar. It was crowded while we were in the office with older kids watching and calculating where to add sabotage points.