Pitching for the Presidency!
Have fun creating a “fill in the blanks” story. Teachers may find this activity useful in their classrooms for teaching parts of speech.
Hello everybody at ________ School! I am running for Student Body President for the next _______ school year. You know me, because I've been going to school here since kindergarten, so that makes _______ years. My name is _________ and I'm proud of our ________ school and especially proud of our _________ mascot, the __________.
YES! Right now, our mascot is a stuffed animal, but if I am elected President, I will try my best to get a real, live mascot. We can feed it _________ and train it to leap on a _________ and to perch on a ________.
ALSO: If I am elected President, I will try to get our ________ teachers to give us no more than _______ hours of homework each day. Sometimes I have ________ hours of homework and by the time I'm finished, I feel really ________, especially if we have to write a story that's _________ pages long, or if I have to learn how to spell as many as ________ words. Homework is ________!
PLEASE vote for me, because as President, I will make a big deal about how we want to go on a field trip to _________. Also, we want to have Pet Day at school and bring our pets, even if they are _________, and do things like ________, which is expected and encouraged. We should have _________ Day, too, and take pictures of __________ to run in our school newspaper.
OH! That's another _______ thing! I want us to have a _________ school newspaper! We can have a ________ contest for the name of our newspaper! I want it to be called “The ________.” But you get to choose! Our ________ teachers could look at all the entries, and choose the most _________ name.
HOW? Well, a teacher would have to be in charge of the newspaper. OR, it could be our Librarian. OR, it could be the ________ OR, our school secretary. See? This is a ________ idea!
RECESS: We need something really new and _________ for our playground. We are all standing in line to use the __________, and it's really old and _______. It might cost $________ for something exciting, like maybe a ________. If I am elected President of our _________ student body, I will work for us to get _______ yard duties who will not make us sit on the bench if we only do stuff like _________.
REMEMBER my motto: “When things go right, we will not _________!” Vote for me and you will be ______. “Bye” for now!