I tell them to act really sad and when their parents open it up they have to say April Fool’s!” ~ Kate B. ![]() ![]() They all get a giant, red sad face in their folders (if they want to participate) and take it home. “I don’t play one on my students, but we play a prank on their parents. The parents and students all loved it!” ~ Annette L. “Last year I was teaching from home, so I had my husband dress up like me, with a wig and all. You can definitely use this idea if you are still teaching virtually. One poor girl was upset because she didn’t “get” any nasty ones. Most of them thought they were bamboozled jelly beans and swore they had the nasty ones. “I made bags of regular jelly beans and wrote a note on each one “Try if you Dare”. This got me a few emails regarding what the heck I told the kids.~ Wendy H. I gave each student a baggie of Cheerios and told them to plant them at home if they wanted to have their own donuts. ![]() “I brought in a “glazed donut” bouquet and after we ate the donuts, I asked my students if they wanted to grow their own donuts with the donut seeds. Then asked parents/guardians to post videos!” ~ Ruthie S. I asked them to do it with their big people recording so they could remember what the bird looked like because it’s so rare. Then I said if it didn’t work, try to say its name backward when calling for it. “I recorded a video of myself explaining that there is a rare bird that only comes out on days like today, I used the weather I think so they didn’t catch on to April first, and that students should go outside with a treat and call Loof Lirpa three times and the bird will come and swoop down and get the treat from their hands. Then spell it on the blacktop and have them read it backward…” ~ Wendy M. “Loof Lirpa bird! We take the kids outside, have them hold up marshmallows, and call for the bird. I started in on the official script, but when they got to the part about opening the test booklet to page 3, I had tucked in a note “April Fools”. I told them we couldn’t give up a whole week again so they had to be finished that afternoon and Monday Morning). They questioned why I was bringing them back and I told them their answer sheets had been destroyed during the grading process and we needed to do the whole battery of tests over. I borrowed standardized testing booklets from the office (we had taken them a couple of weeks prior). “My best was 20 years ago when I taught 5th grade. “I give my students an April Fool’s Day Word Search that has none of the words they are searching for. The kids loved the switched-up roles, and it was a good challenge for the staff to step into someone else’s shoes for a bit!” ~ Jen K. The principal was the PE teacher, the 1st-grade teacher was now in 4th grade, etc. “Quite a few years ago, all the teachers and staff drew names and switched teaching roles for the entire morning. ![]() It doesn’t have to be elaborate, just silly. We act like they are joking when they protest. “My grade level partner and I lead our class into each other’s rooms every year. Students usually just stand there and stare at me like I’ve lost my mind. You and a teammate walk out and grab each other’s students and take them into your classroom and start teaching like it is any regular day. Then I spelled the words incorrectly and tried my hardest to stifle my laughter as the kids gave me the funniest puzzled and confused expressions!” ~ Ara B. “I gave my kids a spelling test a couple of years ago and told them to exchange papers for grading. “Fake spelling test with nonsense words! So funny!” ~ Meg K. I made it to like word #6 before I completely lost it…and only because I had a kid start crying!” ~ Brittany N. “I gave my kids a ridiculously hard spelling test one year. Most of them went home with their brown e to try to trick their parents/siblings too.
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