Storytelling

Our assignment was to do storytelling in the classroom. This is my story... I played claytionary (sculpting with clay from words drawn out of a bowl) with my kids as a review. The team with the most combined sculpting and question review scores as groups would be the winning group to get a treat. So I had to keep it competitive so that they would try to be the top winner. In the end I told them a story of the first time we did this game type of learning that the winning team was given a choice of having a full cupcake or sharing half of it and then the whole class would get a treat. I was astounded when the group took the full cupcake. How could have I have thought they would have shared! So, from now on I always bring enough treats for everyone, because you never know if they are going to share or not. I suppose my prop was that I was holding a box of cookies, sure kept their attention. I guess the lesson learned here is to not assume things and to always be prepared!