Spark Student Motivation: Dunking Booth

 

It's S-U-M-M-E-R!!!

The end of the year is bitter sweet isn't it? We're so happy to take a break for summer, sad to see our current class move on. The last day is just filled with emotions!

 

Our school had a goal to increase our Reading Counts Points...if we earned 50,000 Reading Counts Points we would get a dunking booth. (And, we made it!!)

The top 10 readers able to choose ANYONE they wanted to dunk! Now the good news is that 5 of the 10 top readers in the school were in my class, the bad news is I knew SOMEONE would pick to dunk me! And, guess who it was? The pitcher of a baseball team...of course, right??!! I'm just lucky like that!

 

His mom and I are best friends so he sent me texts taunting me the night before!

 

Nice, right?? I think we made each other nervous!

 

Well, I decided if I was going to be dunked, I wanted to go I wanted to be dunked in style! I made a sash that read "Dunkin' Diva", wore a tiara, and a big sparkly tutu!

 Of course, if you're going to dress up like that, you have to make a grand entrance! LOL! One of my other students escorted me to the dunking booth. I tried to get the crowd on my side, but they wanted all the teachers to get wet! I had them chanting and cheering!

  

Here he is...my baseball player!

 See how he's holding the ball? Yep, a real pitcher! Yikes! And, do you see all those kids watching?? I was super nervous!

I was dancing and screaming up on that seat! The bad thing about this booth is that the target was in the front so you didn't know when you were going down!

 Actually, it was so hot, it felt refreshing to get wet!

 

Of course, my baseball player and I made up after I got out..I gave him a big, wet hug!

(See the photo bomber in the back!)

 

Also, that big tutu held a lot of water...so when I got out, I shook my hips back and forth to get all those kids who wanted me dunked all wet! LOL!

School wide incentives are very motivating to EVERYONE! Even the students who didn't get to dunk a teacher loved participating! I know next year we'll have even more readers!

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