Tomorrow will be a big day at my first-grade daughter's elementary school. We'll be giving each class their collection tin for the year and explaining the class collection prizes. At four different checkpoints throughout the year, classes have a chance to earn a class reward. They qualify for the prize if they reach a predetermined set of box tops collected. The first level is 500. Any class that collects this level of box tops by Oct. 15 will receive a snack for each student in the class during school.
The end-of-the-year, grand prize is a pizza party for the class that collects the most box tops. Box tops are measured in per-student metrics (total box tops/students in class).
My wife did an awesome job creating a billboard to keep track of it all throughout the year. I painted the background but the rest of it was all her. The whole thing is eye-catching.
Each week we will collect box tops on Friday, count them and update class totals by posting a piece of paper representing pepperonis on the pizzas. The number of pepperonis will roughly estimate the class with the most weeks submitting box tops, one of our end-of-the-year prizes. Hopefully this will help even out the workflow from the coordinators' standpoint.
I will update our progress and how the program is going as the year progresses.
