Happy April – It’s officially my birthday month!
We had fun celebrating April Fools’ Day in second grade today. One of my kiddos got me before I could play any tricks of my own! Before the bell even rang, I found this guy on my chair at my kidney table. EEEEK!
Don’t worry, I got to play some tricks of my own.
First, we took a “Following Directions Test.” I told the kids that it’s super easy – all they have to do is follow directions! (This is true, but easier said than done…)
I remember taking one of these trick tests when I was in third grade. I’ll never forget it!
Then, I told my kids that we were going to do word searches for fun word work today! I told them that the first one to find all of their spelling words would win a piece of candy. Little did they know, NONE of their spelling words were actually hidden in the word search. I had them going for a good 5 minutes… by then some kids were getting too frustrated and a few students had figured out it was a prank. They were SO mad!
Lastly, I tried to fool them into looking for the lirpaloof. Thank you Sunny Days in Second!
They are too smart – They quickly realized that lirpaloof is “april fool” backwards.
At the end of the day, I put sad faces in all of my students’ agendas instead of happy faces. I got halfway around the room before anyone said anything! Afterwards, I changed them all to happy faces except for one; She asked me to leave her sad face so she could fool her mom – Ha!!
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I cannot believe it is already APRIL! We are in the home stretch!