The Dojo points system is fantastic to motivate children, but what do you do if you don't have things they can 'spend' their points on? Well, money (or points) can't buy these fantastic rewards! Simply add your children's names in the left hand column, and children still have a way to spend their points as well as developing a greater appreciation of what is important. :)
Print the point cards and make multiple copies. Laminate these and hole punch one end.
I created a 'bank' of laminated 1, 10 and 100 point cards. Each child had their own 'savings book'.
Weekly, we counted up the number of Dojo points each child had and they collected the corresponding number of physical point cards in tens and ones. Encourage children to check how many ones they have and see if they need to regroup (or exchange) their ones for a ten card with the bank. Rarely, a child will save enough points to regroup ten 10 point cards for a 100 point card. The children would then treasury tag their cards together and these were all kept in a special box. The whiteboard point counter could then be re-set to zero. Don't forget to add points to any children absent!
When children are spending their points, subtracting them from the physical savings books is much easier than subtracting them from the online tool, and became a way of applying maths for my classes too. I also insisted that the children needed to tell me their total number of points before any discussion of spending them.
Depending on the age of your class, you could 'short change' children with their points, or put trustworthy monitors in charge of distributing the points.
Print the point cards and make multiple copies. Laminate these and hole punch one end.
I created a 'bank' of laminated 1, 10 and 100 point cards. Each child had their own 'savings book'.
Weekly, we counted up the number of Dojo points each child had and they collected the corresponding number of physical point cards in tens and ones. Encourage children to check how many ones they have and see if they need to regroup (or exchange) their ones for a ten card with the bank. Rarely, a child will save enough points to regroup ten 10 point cards for a 100 point card. The children would then treasury tag their cards together and these were all kept in a special box. The whiteboard point counter could then be re-set to zero. Don't forget to add points to any children absent!
When children are spending their points, subtracting them from the physical savings books is much easier than subtracting them from the online tool, and became a way of applying maths for my classes too. I also insisted that the children needed to tell me their total number of points before any discussion of spending them.
Depending on the age of your class, you could 'short change' children with their points, or put trustworthy monitors in charge of distributing the points.
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