Tina has the best stance on this. She doesn’t get nervous or worry, fearing a “bad” story, because she doesn’t see a story as bad or good, just what the class did that day. She says that creating a story is a team sport, as it were, and so no one person is in charge of the laughs. I so agree!
Why worry if the story isn’t any good? We really are not the person responsible for its ending. It’s through the beginning of the year process of building community that we learn to work in a lighthearted way, just being happy with our kids delivering the CI.
Once we get over that feeling that it’s us against the class (this is accomplished via the word cards and the two kinds of images and especially the jobs), the fear about the success of the story goes away.
Good! We should never have to feel the pressure of making a story “work” five times a day. Just create the story. End it, if you really need an ending, with “Class! The world explodes!” End of problem.