Starting this week, Geer Park will be having a fundraiser to support the upcoming Washington DC trip for 4th and 5th grade. Each class will have a container to fill with pennies. The class with the most pennies wins! The Penny Wars will end on Friday, September 30.
How this will work:
- Each morning students will drop their pennies into their own class container. The containers will be out in the morning by 8:10 on a table in front of the office.
- Students can also choose to drop silver coins or dollar bills into class jars other than their own, which will then be subtracted from that class’s total. In other words, classes want to collect as many pennies as possible, and avoid getting sabotaged with silver change and dollar bills. For example, if Mrs. Chisek’s class had a total of 75 pennies, and a student from a different class came and dropped in two quarters, this would leave Mrs. Chisek’s class with a total of only 25 cents.
- To encourage competition between classes, students are encouraged to compete with siblings, cousins, neighbors, etc…