April 1st Week Part A

April 1 - April Fools' Day

 

 Our day started off with my only student today pulling an April Fool's joke on me. She told me that her head was really itchy. The she grinned and said, "April Fools!" She had a couple more tricks to play on me as the morning went on, but she caught me by surprise with the first one. We watched and learned a cute little April Fools' song.

To help her remember a fun Knock Knock joke to pull on her family we put together a joke bracelet. This bracelet is backwards so read it from right to left. The flat clear beads reminded us to say "Knock knock."  Then after the person said, "Who's there?" the long yellow bead told us to say, "Banana." After the other person said, "Banana who?" We repeat the same. Then the second time the person said, "Banana who?" We repeated the knock knock and our answer to who's there was "Orange." And the final punch line is "Orange you glad I didn't say banana?" LOL She loved the joke but had some difficulty remembering "Orange you glad ..." but we worked on it all morning.

For math we are working on a class graph. We are going to play 10 - 12 rounds of A Snail's Pace Race, to see which color snail will win the most games. She made a prediction, that the pink one would win because it is her favorite color.

After three rounds the yellow is ahead as it won two rounds and pink has only won one round.  After our thrilling snail races, we did a Read the Room. We got out the binoculars and looked around the room to see if we could see ...

food

crew

our April Fools' jester on word cards. We discovered several word cards placed around the room.

	"oo"	"ew"
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 The student was given this chart to fill out. I simplified the activity and chart so it would be easier for my new three year old student, but he wasn't here today.

 Another prank for our families will be when they have "Mud Pie" for dessert. Most people put gummi worms in the mud (chocolate pudding) but my student chose gummi fish to be added to the pie. Of course we topped the pudding with crushed Oreo cookies for dirt.

There were no worms left to put into the pudding, because they had been in the apples when I made Fresh Apple Muffins for snack. The worms got so mad in the oven that they poohed on the muffins. Even with the worm pooh the muffins were delicious. [I tried to cook a gummi worm inside the muffin. DUH! it melted in the cooking process. So in a stroke of genius, and not to waste the muffins, I called it worm pooh.] We also ate a magic banana, it was a mutant banana that was already sliced when we opened it. WOW!! To round out our snack we had celery sticks with peanut butter. [This is a personal favorite of two of my students. I could serve it every day and they would be happy.]

 It was kind of a lonely day for outside play with only one student. We had a couple of hula hoop rolling races, hula hoop tossing competition, and hula hoop jump rope. My cute little student missed her buddy who she competes with. The teacher is not true competition.

Since I only had one student, she was able to complete all of our planned activities and we still had about 45 minutes before mom arrived. So, .... I let her choose the activities that she would like to do. She chose Boggle Junior to play first.

When she got tired of playing that she decided to play Dr. Seuss Super Stretchy ABC Game. It is something like Twister.

Homework was April Fools Day coloring sheet, Shapes Make a Face,  and a simple April Fools Day word search I created.