February Writing Prompts

Love is in the air!  It's important to show our friends and family how much we care about them all year long, but there's just something about February that makes it even more special.  There's also a lot of writing around...Valentine cards, love poems, and even the ingredients on the back of your box of chocolates! 

Writing Genre	Suggested Writing Prompt
Letter	Write a letter to… -Cupid -A friend
Persuasive	Abraham Lincoln or George Washington?  Who was the better president, and why?   Is it good or bad when the groundhog sees his shadow?
Personal	Write about a time you gave or received a Valentine   Write about a great day with your best friend
Imaginative	Imagine that you met Punxsutawney Phil (the groundhog) in Pennsylvania.  What happened?   What would happen if Cupid accidentally shot you with one of his arrows?
Clarification	How to make a Valentine card   Write about the truths and misconceptions surrounding Valentine’s Day

Raindrop Story

By: William, Mrs. Seely's 5th Grade Class

 

     “Oh, hi there.”  “My name is JohnnyMcMolecule.” “The story I’m about to tell you is quite long, so get comfortable.” “It all started when I was just a little molecule.” SPLASH SPLOSH all day long, a puddle in London, it was as wet as the ocean. “Mother?” I asked. “Yes dear?” Mother replied. “Do we have to stay here all the time?” I question. “No, today we have a surprise for you.” She answers. “Really!?” I say excitedly. “Yes.” Mother reassuringly. *But what I did not know was that something very crazy was about to happen.*

     “Aaaaaaahhhh!” “Why am I turning invisible!?” I yell in fear. “Calm down.” Mother says. “We’re evaporating.” “Why did we do something wrong!?” I ask fearfully. “No, it’s because  of the sun’s heat.” “and soon we are going to turn into clouds.” Mother explained. “Oooohh….well all I want to know is why is it so cold?” I replied. “Well since water vapor rises quickly we are really high in the atmosphere.” “Ah! Whoa we are high!” I exclaimed. *A few minutes later other molecules started condensing and formed a cloud with us.* “Yes a Cumulus cloud my favorite one!” I yell. It had been 5 months since Johnny and his mother left London and now they were in a Cumulonimbus cloud and were ready to drop!

     “Here we goooo......!” I scream as I fall out of the cloud. “Wait….this isn’t London…OH NOOOO….!” I yell still falling to Earth. *A moment later I slid down a long road hitting a building every time I tried to move, eventually I fell into a drain where I found a paper called “New York Times”.

     Luckily my mother and a few others fell into the same drain. “Mother? Is this place called “New York”? “Yes.” She replied. “Oh and I have another question.” I say. “Why did we not land back in London?” “Well the 5 months we were in that cloud the wind pushed the cloud here.” Mother explained. *And that’s how I got here to tell you my story, and luckily it was short enough for us not to evaporate….oh! it’s happening again LETS GO!

     Yet again evaporating into the atmosphere Johnny and his mother wait to form a cloud with other molecules, and when they did form a cloud it was a Stratus cloud. “Wow!” I say in astonishment. “This cloud looks big enough to cover an one mile radius!” and again they start their journey. It hadn’t been long since they left and were now in a Nimbostratus cloud.
This time before Johnny and his mother dropped they found themselves in a hurricane somewhere in California. The wind threw them around so much that they were separated and somehow found each other again *  I am still trying to figure out how though.* But not long after they landed they were swept away by a flood wave that ran rampid through the streets. A day later they started to evaporate again wondering what was coming next. This time had formed another cumulus cloud, and as always they would soon be a Cumulonimbus cloud. After 7 months of waiting they finally formed a Cumulonimbus cloud and were going to drop in a few minutes. Also during the 7 months went by Johnny made some new friends, their names were Harry Hailstone, Sean Sleet and Jerry Snow. They also had family with them, so my mother finally had someone to talk to. After a little bit they dropped into New York yet again. And while they were falling into New York they all made an incredible encounter! It was Godzilla!! He was acting in the 2014 version of Godzilla. “HI GODZILLA!!!!!” The 4 boys yell at the same time. “HELLO!!” Godzilla roars back. “CUT! Godzilla who are you talking to?” The director asked. “Myself.” Godzilla replied. “Ooops…” Say the 4 boys. “Wow! That was amazing to see a famous actor!” Johnny says to his friends. Just a few seconds later they can see all sorts of props flying around for the movie. “Wow….. I actually feel like I’m in a movie right now!” I yell. Eventually they all fell into a drain and kept talking and talking about how good the new Godzilla movie was going to be. They even thought that they might to get to see themselves in the movie! They thought this because well….. before they fell into the drain Godzilla was on the same path they were. That night minutes before they evaporated out of the movie scene Johnny made a wish that next time they turned into a type of precipitation they all got to meet another movie actor.



Raindrop Story

By: Skyler, Mrs. Seely's 5th Grade Class

 

     “Huh?” “What’s going on?” “I didn’t do anything bad!” I complained. “What happened to just drifting softly?” I used to be a cloud, now I am falling into what looks like someone’s rain barrel. I look to see if I can find a familiar face. “John!” I yell. He is my best friend. To me he is as nice as a flower. “Crystal!” He screams. That is me, Crystal.

     “What’s happening?” I asked him. “We are in the water cycle.” He stated. “Um, what’s that?” I questioned. I started getting nervous, I have never heard of that. “Precipitation, condensation, evaporation, any of that ring a bell?” Those last statements really helped calm me down. I think to myself for a while. “Are we supposed to fall instantly? That is what we did. Since we are falling as rain, does that mean we are precipitation? You told me that once.” “Yes I do remember telling you that and you are correct, we are precipitation.” He tells me. After a long while of falling, we land on a mountain that Humans call “Mount Everest.” I hit the ground, hard. All of a sudden all the air in me is taken out. I gasp for air, I finally manage to talk to John. “John, what’s happening?” I shouted. “It’s okay, we are runoff. That is one of the best stages.”

     “What is runoff?” I mutter. I am getting old of this whole, water cycle thing.” It is where we wait to be collected by an ocean, river, or lake.” He responded. “I don’t understand why we have to go through all these stages and can’t just stay in one all our lives.” I complain. “If we didn’t go through these stages, eventually water in the ocean would be gone and that would not be good.” He replied. “Humans have to drink and if they can’t drink then there won’t be any left.” He explained. “I will tell you everything you need to know about each stage as we go through them.” He told me.

     “What are we doing now?” I question. We have been in this pond for quite a while. I wonder why he hasn’t told me anything yet because… My sentence trails off as I see something. “Ahhh!” I scream as I see John start rising into the atmosphere and disappearing. “Oh yes, the same thing is happening to you as well. It is evaporation. We get so hot we turn into a gas called water vapor.” He states. “Is that when we are clouds? I love being a cloud!” I scream. I wonder if we are going to be a cloud soon. It was really hot when we started rising, then it became colder and colder and colder.

     Like John said, I am most familiar with this stage. If you don’t remember at the beginning of the story I asked,” What happened to just drifting softly?” Once you rise higher into the atmosphere it gets colder and colder. You turn into one of the three types of clouds, Cirrus, Stratus or Cumulous clouds. John interrupts my though process. “You have been really quite lately, why?” “It is really cold and after going through all of these stages, I got used to it. Plus you calmed me down when you said we would become clouds again.” I replied. “Oh” He murmured. So I am back to being a cloud and drifting softly. I am glad to be back. I needed a rest from all that.

     And now we start over and over through the water cycle. Like a game that never ends. That was my story. If you were wondering, yes this is what all water goes through. It is how the Earth recycles water. Well got to get back to falling. Hoped you learned from my story. Bye…



Raindrop Story

By: Shellby, Mrs. Seely's 5th Grade Class

 

     “My friends and I were just lying on the surface of the aqua blue Atlantic Ocean when we heard a splat and then another than another. The sounds were as loud as claps of thunder! And the next thing we knew we were floating in the air like a flock of birds.”

     “I have just realized we are in evaporation. Evaporation is when runoff turns into water vapor or as we call it gas. “I feel like I’m flying I said to myself.” “I know it feels weird!” replied Drippy. “It’s getting cold up here in the atmosphere.” I admitted. “Yeah it’s as cold as an ice cube up here!” stated Marshall. All of a sudden I attracted to a piece of dirt or as Marshall Calls it a “Particle’.  I don’t know how I got up here but I’m about to find out!”  I know what cycle we are in!” yelled Marshall. “Well… What cycle are we in?!” we all shouted back. “We are in the water cycle!” exclaimed Marshall. Yay! We all cheered. We are safe!”

     “The next morning we all woke up, I looked down at my “legs.” They weren’t water anymore they were ice crystals or as we know it snowflakes! Then we dropped. “Aaahhh!” We all yelled in harmony. But then I glided softly to the ground. “What cycle was that?” I asked Marshall. “Precipitation” he said. Precipitation is when rain,snow,sleet or hail falls to the surface of the earth. “Wow that was amazing I wonder what the next stage will be like!

    “ Oww! I complained as I lay on the point of a big smoky gray rock. “That hurt!” I am now a raindrop again not a snowflake. Marshall?.. Drippy?.. Are you on this big pointy rock too? I asked. “No” they answered back.” We are down here!” I looked down oh great now I’m slipping! “It’s okay” Marshall said. In a few minutes we will turn into runoff with the other raindrops! We will end up back in the Atlantic Ocean. But we won’t be on the coast of Florida anymore we will be on the coast of Africa! I guess we will meet new friends! We all said in excitement. A quick little drizzle of rain came in those few minutes and of course more raindrops came and then we all slid into the Atlantic Ocean like people on a water slide! Something was different though… Somebody was missing I knew it wasn’t Drippy because he was right next to me. Marshall I called out he didn’t answer Drippy Marshall is gone! We will probably never see him again! Unless we meet again in the next cycle. Well I hoped and so did Drippy.”

     “We lay there on the see through Atlantic Ocean without Marshall. ’Wait… Drippy do you hear that? “Yeah I did!” he replied back. Marshall is that you?                

     We screamed. “Yes it is me!” he yelled back.” We are north of you!” we screamed. “Come over here!” “Okay on my way!” yelled.  Then it happened the cycle started over. “I wonder if this is going to be our whole life?” I said to Drippy.” Well you better enjoy it while you can!” he replied.

And then the cycle started over and over and over and we landed in new places every time! It was an amazing adventure! You should try it out some time soon!



Raindrop Story

By: Rachel, Mrs. Seely's 5th Grade Class

 

            Whoosh!  I just flew through the sky.  Bam!  Ouch!  “I’m sorry, it’s not my fault the wind made me blow into you”, I exclaimed.  “I’m sorry I screamed at you, Rachel”, confessed Jessie.  “Wow, today the air up here above Hawaii is as blue as a sapphire!” remarked Jessie.  “I know, and the grass looks as green as an emerald”, I claimed.

 

            “OMG!” I exclaimed.  “What!?” shouted Jessie.  “I-I-I’m turning into a-a-a liquid!” I replied.  “Wow, look I am too!” remarked Jessie.  “I wonder why we are doing this?” I mumbled.  “I can’t believe you guys”, said Kelsey,” you should know that there is a water cycle and this is the precipitation stage.” “ Oh, that makes sense because I just realized that because it got warmer our clouds started to melt and now we are raindrops”, declared Jessie.  “Yeah that is understandable I guess!” I announced. “We are also falling through the atmosphere, and our clouds did not melt, they became less dense.” Reported Kelsey.  Kerplunk! I just hit the Earth’s surface at top speed!  Ouch!  Ow! “Ow, that really hurt!” I complained.  “I know, I totally agree!” agreed Jessie.  “Jeez, you guys are such big babies, get used to it, sometimes the water cycle hurts!” retorted Kelsey.

             “Well Kelsey, what are we now?” questioned Jessie.  “We are runoff”, reported Kelsey.  “Ok, so let me get this straight, after we fall down to Earth as rain, we turn into a liquid that flows across the land while gravity pulls us downhill, right?” I questioned.  “Yes”, replied Kelsey.  “I know something, its 10:00 at night so I think we should go to bed now.” grumbled Jessie.  “I agree, we should totally go to bed now.” I responded. “Good night!” murmured Kelsey. I was awakened by some pain in my back. “Ow,Ow,Ow!” I complained. We were tumbling into a bunch of rocks. “Oh, no!” screamed Jessie.  She was getting absorbed into a plants leaves. “I’m sorry, I can’t help you!” I replied.  Oh My Gosh!!  “I am getting absorbed into a plant too!” I complained.  “Oh cool, this is fun!” Kelsey declared. “Wow, it’s really weird in here!” I claimed. Nobody answered me.  “Hello?” I asked.  Silence.  Oh no now I’m all alone!  Wow this is cool. I-I think I’m floating to the top of this plant.  I wonder if I’ll ever see Jessie or Kelsey again!?

              “I believe I can fly!” I exclaimed.  Oh yeah, I’m all alone.  I feel the air outside again.  Will I ever find Kelsey or Jessie in this weather?  “Rachel!!” someone screamed.  “Yes?” I replied.  “It’s me, Jessie!” Jessie claimed.  “Jessie!” I screamed.  “I can’t see you!” Jessie complained.  “I know, I think it’s because we got released out of the leaves of the plant, so now we are floating up into the atmosphere.” I explained.  “We are in evaporation, and most of the people up here got heated up in a body of water and now we are floating upwards.” Someone reported.  “KELSEY!!” Jessie and I screamed.  “I know, I know you thought you would never find me.” Kelsey muttered.  “Brr…it’s starting to get kind of cold up here.” I grumbled.  “Yeah, it is!” Jessie agreed.

              “Brr... it’s getting even colder up here!” I exclaimed.  “Yeah, and it’s very humid up here.” Jessie said. Then we started to turn into a water droplet and clump together.  “I think this is a cumulus cloud.” I explained.  “Yeah, me to because we are also in the

              Troposphere.” Jessie agreed.  “Yes, you are both right. A cloud forms when water vapor turns into water and then the water molecules all clump together and form a cloud.” explained Kelsey.  “Okay then, so smarty what is this stage in the water cycle called?” I questioned.  “This is condensation because we condensed into a cloud.” reported Kelsey.

              “I feel as graceful as a swan, just floating all around.” announced Jessie.  “Yes it is very relaxing up here, just don’t look down!” I replied.  All of a sudden it started getting very warm up in the clouds.  “Oh no! We are starting to fall as rain again!” I groaned.  Then we started falling.  “Wait we aren’t rain this time we are like, slush?” I questioned.  “Yes, we are falling as sleet though.  There are 4 types of precipitation we can fall as- rain, snow, sleet, or hail.” Kelsey reported.  “That is very fascinating.” I replied.  So then our journey started again.

 

                                                                   THE END!!



Rain Drop Story

By: Peyton, Mrs. Seely's 5th Grade Class

 

           Hello my name is Peyton Sparks. I’m a water particle in Little Pigeon River in the Appalachian Mountains in North Carolina. I live in the river with my friends Andrew, Jacob, Juan, Autum, Jaedyn, Ross, Skyler, Eric, Kortney, and Josalynn. The stream is as clear as glass. Now this is my story of how I went through my first water cycle.

           So as I told you I live in a stream. It started raining hard the water was getting higher and higher. This has never happened before I felt petrified as all of this was going on right in front of my eyes. I looked at my friends they too looked frightened. Then I started getting tossed and turned through the rapid water. The scenery was flying past me. “Guys what’s happening! “yelled Skyler at the top of her lungs. “I don’t know but this is scary! “yelled Jacob who was now panicking. “Roller coaster ride” screamed Andrew raising his hands in the air. I looked around at the scenery. There was really tall things in the sky but they weren’t trees. They were shiny too. There were people too, but I have never seen so many in one place before. I wondered “Why were there so many in one place also what were those really tall shiny things? “. There was a rock in the middle of us and when we hit it the water between me and my friends got hit. When it did I got blasted back I landed in a random puddle. “Guys where are you!“ I called it was night now I looked around. I just realized I was all alone.

            I started panicking. I looked around even more hoping to find a trace of my missing friends. Suddenly I heard a voice say “Hello Dear are you okay?” the voice asked ever so calmly. I spun around to confront the voice I met face to face with a man that had brown hair and blue eyes “Who are you? “  I inquired the man “I’m John and you are?” he said replying to me “I’m Peyton.” I said. “Well Peyton I see you just started up your first water cycle and before you ask yes I’m going to tell you what the water cycle is and teach you about all the different phases of it.” He then started laughing at my expression which at the moment was confusion. Once he stopped laughing he then started to tell me about it all. “The stage you just went through was run-off next is evaporation.” He explained. “What’s that?” I asked “That is when the suns heat shines down on us and we become water vapor.” He explained to me. “What’s water vapor?” I asked. “Water vapor is a type of gas.” He answered. “Look!” he exclaimed. “It’s happening right now!” Suddenly I felt as light as a feather. I looked down my feet were gone! Instead replacing them was a wisp like you see on a ghost. “Is this normal!?” I yelled at John “Yup.” He said smiling as him and I started floating  into the air. “Wow.” I thought “Where are we now?” I asked still looking around amazed by everything I was seeing. “Were in the atmosphere.” He said answering my question. I already knew what the atmosphere was so I didn’t ask about that. “What’s going to happen now?” I asked “Or do we stay here forever?” “No that doesn’t happen the next thing that happens in the water cycle is condensation.” He explained “So what is condensation?” I asked “Condensation is when all the raindrops that got evaporated all come together and because it gets colder here the farther you go up we clump together and become this thing called a cloud.” He explained to me. “Okay.” I paused then asked another question. “So when will it start?” “Soon” he answered. “I can’t wait.” I thought as John and I were still floating through the atmosphere.

            When it started getting cold John and I were shaking really bad. We saw some other water vapor shaking like us from the cold. I looked around in that group of water vapor still no sign of my friends. More water vapor started getting closer to us and as John said we all started piling up together. Then we all started floating together. There were white fluffy walls that acted like a barricade keeping us all inside. I was getting warmer until I was sweating. “I don’t like this at all!” I exclaimed miserably. “It’s not my favorite part of the water cycle either for most water vapor it isn’t. He mumbled. I looked down to see my wisp but I had feet and legs again. “Oh no!” he basically whispered. He was looking down at his legs and feet with a look a of fear on his face. “What!?” I asked. “We are water particles again and soon will be in a phase of the water cycle that as worse as this it is horrible!” he groaned. “What is it?” I asked. “Precipitation” he said with that look of fear still engraved on his face.

            “Precipitation?” I asked concern on what this phase of the water cycle was all about. John still had the look of fear on his face as he explained to me what precipitation was. “Precipitation is when the cloud were in gets heavy and we fall out of it because we all aren’t the weightless water vapor we used to be we are now water particles and when we fall out of the sky there are 4 different type of precipitation we could fall out of as . There is hail, rain, sleet and snow.” “Oh.” I said those were the only words I could muster at the moment. Then suddenly fear started to creep into my heart like a thief in the dead of the night. I, Peyton Sparks was going to fall out of the sky, yay. It was a little bit that we waited for it to happen but it happened so quickly all I heard was BOOM!!!!! And John and I were free- falling through the sky. I, obviously started screaming my head off. Then I heard a SPLAT!!! And some sudden pain but it went away quickly. John and I had landed in a river, my river. We had landed in Little Pigeon River, yes home sweet home. Then I felt  a hand on my shoulder while John went exploring, my friends “Guys!!!” I accidently screamed in their faces. “Okay then.” Jacob said trying to dismiss the fact that I had screamed in their faces. Eric then screamed in my face for revenge I suppose. But it didn’t matter I was back home with my friends.

            So yeah it has been two weeks since we have been home done with the water cycle. John says in a couple more days the water cycle will happen again for us. But I really don’t care because I’m enjoying the fact that I’m home with my friends. So that was my story of my first water cycle. It really isn’t that scary when you know about. Maybe just maybe I’ll make another story. Anyway I’m off  to prepare for my next water cycle. I want to bring some comforts with me on my next water cycle it will make it more enjoyable, Goodbye now my dear reader of my story.



A Real Rain Drop Story

By: Nathan, Mrs. Seely's 5th Grade Class

 

‘’Ahhhhhhhhhhhh’’ I scream, I’m falling to my death like a pebble off a cliff .I don’t know how all this started but my names Spark. I’m always getting into situations but not this bad. I keep falling faster and faster screaming for my life. Before I hit a mountain my whole life flashes before me. I guess while stuck in space and time I may as well tell you how this all started. ‘’What did I do to deserve this? ‘’but then I hear a crash!

     ‘’Ahhhh this is the life.’’ I say floating on a bubble in the Atlantic Ocean. The sky is dim the ocean is warm and I’m with my friends and family.’’ I’m  going home.’’ I tell everyone ‘’See you later Spark and don’t get caught by precipitation!’’ teases Joey he is always telling steam or ghost tales about a curse called precipitation. It makes you disappear and fly away. I wonder if I should swim or take a fish or take a fish when suddenly my hand disappears. ’’Huh’’ I wonder when my arm disappears!

     After I lose my arm to I don’t even know what I start to panic! ’’Help me!’’ I scream running around in circles. Then I start to feel woozy the last thing I remember is my arms and legs vanishing. ‘’Ahhhhhh mom I had the most crazy nightmare ‘’ I hear no reply. ‘’Mom?’ ‘’Nihow!’’ I hear someone say then I see a young Chinese raindrop. ’’Hello where am I ?’’ I ask. ‘’You are in evaporation’’ she replied in her best English. then I look up and see a big grey Cumulonimbus cloud.

     As I keep floating upwards I notice two things: I am just a head and the air up in the atmosphere is cold! The Chinese raindrop has left and I am sick from tossing and turning. I feel like I’m about to freeze when I hear someone call my name. “Spark over here!’’. When I turn around I see a big zigzag cirrus cloud and in it is my old buddy frosty! I float over and talk with him. Frosty is a ice crystal with bright eyes and a big smile. ”Frosty where are we!?”I ask. “why you just got done with evaporation this is condensation!”      

    “Conde-what now!” I reply confused. ”Condensation  remember in school we  learned that the sun gives us heat and we evaporate then we condense!” “Okay when I’m millions of feet in the air and feel like I’m in school I draw a line.” I joked. But soon me and Frosty started to separate “See you back home!” he calls out a few minutes later I start falling “Weeeeeeeee!” until I see a cliff under me gulp I got my body back and formed a raindrop but I don’t think it matters now!

       “Ahhhhhhhhh!” I scream rather horrified. Im falling to my death like a pebble falling off a cliff. I keep falling faster and faster. Then I hear a crash, ouch but there’s no time to complain because Im sliding down the mountain. Bump Bump Bump that’s all I hear until I close my eyes and pray for a miracle… then I hear a splash. “Hurray!” Everyone was cherring then I stop and notice… I just survived the water cycle!

     I was so happy I thought I was going to explode. “We landed in a river!” everyone cheers. But then I see him his bright eyes and warm smile “Frosty!” “Spark!” we run to each other and hug but when he tells me we were only a few miles from home I hugged tighter. Soon after a lot of walking we get home. “MOM!”. “What happened she asks “It’s a long story I tell her but then I see him, my little brother tony flying towards the sun “Hi big brother who’s taller now?”

 

                                                         THE END