As my morning began today, I looked at all the empty desks while I waited for my first third grade class. I knew I had the perfect prompt for second and third graders. . ."The Day it Rained Chocolate Pudding".
Even though the prompt sounds easy to write about, the younger children don't know how to elaborate enough yet; so the papers end up being pretty boring.
I had already written a beginning for the story that goes something like this:
One day I woke up to the sound of rain on my roof. I rushed to the window and boy did I have a surprise. That wasn't rain. It was chocolate pudding!
In their stories,the children end up eating the pudding or playing in it without showing me the finer pictures I need for my brain.
Since I had written the beginning, the children were to write a middle event of the story, just in case you're trying to read their small handwriting and see that they have begun with So .
"Ohhh! I remember this from last year!" a few shout.
But then again, a few are new to our school.
The stories were written and next week I will begin the teaching. That's the fun part of my job.
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