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By Laura

During my student teaching last semester I tried to do this game. It was really hard, I must admit, keeping track of everything. We played only based on homework. The team I was on always kept track of missing assignments.
At first, I had the kids roll on Fridays if they had 1 or less missing assingments. BUT this meant that there were about 40/48 students rolling each Friday which took up too much time. Then I reduced it to no missing assignments and this helped out. We usually rolled during the Channel 1 News program or right after morning announcements. One of my helpers was "Game Show Host" and

they would be responsible for moving the pieces on the board. IF someone besides the host was caught touching pieces (cheating) then they would be sent to jail and could not play for a month.

I made it up to the kids to check the sheet next to the board for their name. If they never came up and we passed up their name, then they forfieted(?) their chance to roll.

If kids landed on a blank space they got a piece of candy. If they chose a card they did not want, too bad. I am a real stickler for that. Like when you are passing out suckers and kids complain that they didn't get the color they wanted. Well too bad I also didn't use all the cards. I let the kids use the blank cards that you can print to make up some other awards too. Like a pop pass, bathroom pass, 10 starbucks, etc.

One other cool thing I did was Homework Club. I made up little cards and if they got their card punched 10 times for coming 10 days to Homework Club they got a bonus roll, which meant every squares value was doubled. SO say they landed on a free book(mark I changed it to), then they got 2 instead of one. THe best square I made on the board was a call home. I think this was the whole reason kids really wanted to roll. They so much WANTED that call home.

Well, hope some of this helped. Good luck with HWopoly. At first it takes a LOT of time and organizing but it get smoother as the year progresses.

Laura