More AWESOME! writing!

We continued with our study of writing about all things AWESOME! today. The students picked the two most AWESOME! things from the list of ten they had compiled earlier, and began compiling a list of details and adjectives to describe each of the two, in order to prepare two write about how AWESOME! those two things are to them. Before that, however, we wrote about another AWESOME! thing as a class - they chose to write about when they get the last marble to earn a Mystery Motivator. Here's what they came up with:

Getting Our Twentieth Marble

Have you ever experienced getting a twentieth marble in the classroom?

In our classroom, we get marbles if we are quiet when we are doing Math or our Daily 5, when another teacher gives our class a compliment in the hallway if we are being really quiet, or if we come into the classroom really quietly and get right to work. Once we get our twentieth marble, we get a surprise called the Mystery Motivator. The Mystery Motivator could be free time, a movie, extra recess, pajama day, and other fun things. When the class has 19 marbles, everyone feels excited because we think we might get that twentieth marble today! Your heart is pounding like crazy when you see the Marblekeeper go into his desk, because that's where he keeps the marbles! Then, you see he gets something else out of his desk, like a pencil - you feel disappointed. The next thing you know, he goes back into his desk for something. He grabs a giant marble - it's a bigger one than all of the others, and it's one he only puts into the marble cup for the twentieth marble. You see that giant marble fall into the cup, as he drops it, and you hear a loud kerplunk! You start to cheer with the rest of your classmates because you know that you're going to get a Mystery Motivator, and you know it will be...

AWESOME!