The GOAL of the Penny War is to collect as many PENNIES

as possible in your jar and put as many NON-PENNIES

in everyone else’s jar.

Money is worth “points” based on its monetary value.

Pennies = 1 point 1 Dollar = 100 points

Nickels = 5 points 5 Dollars = 500 points

Dimes = 10 points 10 Dollars = 1,000 points

Quarters = 25 points 20 Dollars = 2,000 points

Pennies GIVE your team positive points!

Nickels, dimes, quarters, and any dollar bills take points AWAY from the team’s total.

Therefore, you want to put PENNIES in YOUR TEAM’S jar

(positive points) and nickels, dimes, quarters, and dollar bills (negative points) in the jars of OTHER TEAMS.

PENNIES GOOD!!! SILVER BAD!!!

BOMB THE OTHER TEAMS WITH SILVER and help subtract from their positive penny total!!!

Strategy counts. Have fun with it!

Whichever team has THE MOST POINTS at the end of the Penny War, wins!!

Team 8’s Penny War will run for five consecutive days:

Monday, November 17 through Friday November 21 .

The winning class will be announced on Monday, November 24.

There will be a big pizza and donut party for the winning class!

Rules:

1) There will be 1 container for each of Mr. Levy’s language arts classes. Each container will have a slit at the top so coin and paper money can be inserted.

2) The containers will be labeled for the appropriate block and located inside of Mr. Levy’s room (417).

3) Students from their respective blocks should put pennies in their class' container with one point being received for every penny in the container.

4) You may put other coins and paper currency into other containers. Each silver coin or bill will reduce the number of points from that container by the amount of the coin (e.g. a nickel reduces the points by five, a dime by ten, a dollar by 100, etc.).

5) Containers will be emptied and counted everyday and the totals for each class will be posted daily in room 417 as well as on Mr. Levy’s webpage for people to see.

6) The winning class will receive a big pizza and donut party.