Every day, multiple times a day, I am approached by a student looking for a lost item. Often, I know where it is. "It's on the floor, under your desk" is usually the answer. Or, I'll have them bring me the box that fits inside their desk and I'll sift through the detritus and hand them whatever it is that had been supposedly irretrievably lost.
Sometimes, it is a prized trinket that has gone missing and if I can't find it, I'll usually offer a piece of candy for whoever can find it. It almost always works. They fan out on their hands and knees, searching and they find whatever it was.
Yesterday, it was one of the girl's turn to open the advent calendar. She got her mini brand, it was a teeny tiny Rugrat doll, and everyone oohed and ahhed and she placed it on her desk and within the hour it disappeared. I looked around and didn't see it. We were on our way to PE and I said that no one was leaving until we found the mini brand.
One boy found it, miraculously, in his pocket.
(He didn't get a piece of candy.)
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