Adding up our Pennies for Pasta

In room B11 we are determine to help children suffering with Leukemia! We have been collecting pennies (and other silver coins as well) to donate to Leukemia Cancer research! We have used our Pennies for Pasta change as a big part of our math lessons this week. We realized that counting one penny at as time was not an efficient strategy! We started counting by twos, then tens. Then we realized making groups of ten, by counting the ten pennies up by twos worked best! We counted groups of tens until we had ten groups or one dollar. We are excited to help our school reached their goal of $2,000.00 for Cancer research. Which class will raise the most money and get a lunch from the Olive Garden?!

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Pennies for Pasta!

This is our final week of the Pennies for Pasta campaign.  So far, we have raised over $1400.00! Our school, with the help of The Olive Garden, is raising money to fight Leukemia. Leukemia is a type of cancer that affects the blood and bone marrow, the spongy center of bones where our blood cells are formed. We want to reach our goal of $2000.00.   You can make donations at this link is:  http://nc.sy.llsevent.org/WindsorParkElementarySchool.  The class who brings in the most money will receive a delicious Italian Olive Garden lunch.
A big thanks to Edwin who brought in a splendid amount of change! pennies for pasta