day 245

As a kid, your full-time job is to attend school so my students get paid for coming to school and for doing their homework as well as a few other things. They don't get paid for everything they do (we all work for free at times!) but the money is a very powerful tool in our classroom. Kids learn to count large amounts of cash, make trades and we even hold swap meets so that they can get rid of stuff they don't want and buy some new things. I have been so busy lately that I just haven't had time to create the money - my old money had the name of my former school all over it - so today, the kids designed their own bills. So cute!