BP8_Active Allowance

The tool I found for this week was Active Allowance. 

This tool allows you as a parent or a teacher to set up a chore or responsibility checklist for each of their children or students. These checklists can be personally colored for your child to help them personalize their checklists and make them more fun. 

Once you have your design set up you can add your own personalized responsibility list for each student. You can print these lists off so that the child can have a tangible sheet of paper to help remember what their responsibilities are. As the child completes their daily chores they can check them off and at the end of the day they need to get a signature from either an adult in the room our you can set up a peer checking system to check that their work is actually done and done to a satisfactory quality. As the children get their responsibilities done you award them points. These points can be seen online at any time by the child as long as they know how to log into their chart. 

You can set up an allowance system to correspond with how many points they earn a week. Being in a classroom you probably wont want to use real money. But they can earn online monies that can be printed out and turned in for really anything. You can have some smaller prizes for students or you can give them the option to save up for a bigger prize like extra recess, or to able to pick a game for the afternoon, or be in charge for a day. 

This site not only allows you to start teaching kids responsibility for themselves by assigning them everyday chores to complete on their own without you having to remind the fifteen times it usually takes.  It also helps teach them the responsibility of earning and saving for bigger more exciting prizes. For the younger kids it also helps teach addition and subtraction, by figuring out how much they need to earn for things, or how much they have left after getting a prize.