How Many Monkeys?

Has your kid been talking about monkeys at school?  Have you been wondering what that is all about?  We have been counting how many students have bananas in their lunch boxes each day.  The students who have bananas get to stand up and act like monkeys at the beginning of first nutrition break.  On occasion, Mrs. Piquette has forgotten to count the monkeys, but never fear: the students remind us EVERY DAY.  We have now started graphing how many monkeys we have each day.  Here are some students to show us what it's like to be a monkey at school.

What do you think of our monkey tradition?  Can you think of some other things we could do to tally different fruits?  Apples?  Strawberries?  Raspberries?