Earning By Learning
Completed!
August 16, 2014
$551 given
3 donors
$551 given
3 donors
My students need activities such as board games, puzzles and arts and craft materials at home to aid in thinking skills, creativity and language building skills. Critical thinking skills and creativity are often mastered during play. I ... more
My students need activities such as board games, puzzles and arts and craft materials at home to aid in thinking skills, creativity and language building skills.
I am amazed at how successful Earning By Learning has been in my classroom this school year. I was able to implement this reward system the very first day because of your generous gift! No more spending huge amounts of personal money for unimportant treasure chest trinkets. These prizes were items the children really wanted and were willing to work hard to earn the money to purchase them.
Today was our first "store" where the students were allowed to spend their hard earned cash! The first place student earned $205.00 while the twenty-fourth student only had $6.00. Please understand I began to take money from them also for behavior issues, lack of self-control, etc. All of the students were extremely excited about their new educational games, floor puzzles, play dough and tools that they could bring home for Thanksgiving and play with their families.
My volunteers today said that all of the students did a fantastic job counting out all of their money and really have a better understanding of base 10. This is a huge standard in first grade!
All in all I believe it has been a great success and everyone is ready to begin to earn money again after Thanksgiving holiday is over. "Will you work harder to earn more money," I said. "You bet I will!" was the unanimous response. We all are excited to see who will earn the most money this next semester!
With gratitude,
Ms. Green
