Every year the 4th grade does a "points for pages" auction. Every page you read gets you a point, and at the end of the year, you get to buy things with your points at a live auction.
JR's teacher let him count all the books he read in Denver (which would have been more if he'd known he'd get to use them to buy stuff) and he wound up with 10,376 points for the auction.
The kids were super excited about the auction and the ones that watch Storage Wars (like JR) were planning to run up the prices. (They were told they would not be allowed to bid on the next 5 items if they did that.)
JR also asked if they could say "yep" to show they were bidding (like Dave Hester does on Storage Wars) but they were told the same thing.
So with no "yeps" and just a paddle for bidding, the kids entered to find the auction items set up.
Just look at all this cool stuff (over 200 items)!
I was a point keeper (so this was my view). I had about 6 kids I was in charge of. I kept track of what they bought, and how many points they had left to spend.
Sometimes they would try to bid more than they had, so I had to stop them.
There was 1 ipad up for auction and the kids really couldn't get into the grove until that came up.
The kids that thought they might have a chance at it wouldn't bid at all.
The girl who had the most points had 26,000 and they knew she wanted it, but JR wasn't going to let her have it without paying for it.
When the ipad went up, all the paddles shot up, but JR called out, "All in!"
JR had the most points of any boy, and was in the top 5 of all the kids.
JR put up all his 10,376, so she had to out bid him, which she did. She got the ipad (I think she had to pay 10,500), but he brought her down to where she had about as many points as the top 5 kids.
(And yes, I think she totally deserved the ipad. She read the most, so she should get it.)
It was fun to see what the kids would get into heated bids over (Nerf guns and a Sharknado poster),
but when the smoke cleared JR walked away with:
-a $10 itunes gift card
-a $15 itunes gift card
-a $15 Target gift card
-a $25 Game Stop gift card
-a hardback copy of Diary of a Wimpy Kid. (He wanted the hardback for his collection.)
-a Duck Dynasty board game
-a homework pass
-a Chick-fil-A lunch this Friday at school for himself and a friend where they will sit at a special reserved table and also have a special dessert (he's picked his friend, Olivia)
And what he's most excited about....
That's right, it's a snow cone machine. (We've already made snow cones twice.)
All the kids after the auction with their winnings.
It really was the most fun I've had at school in a long time!
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