31 Mar

April Fool

Posted by Christopher in School/Education.

That might be my new name after my plans that I have for tomorrow. I think this might be the first or second April 1 that I have had school on since I have started teaching. I wanted to do something crazy for the day. My crazy solution? For the first half of the day I am switching places with another teacher. She will be in my class while I will be in hers. The crazy part is the grade level of the other teachers. Yes my friends, I will be in a Kindergarten class tomorrow morning. 

Now you are starting to see how crazy I really am. The Kindergarten teacher that I am swapping with has promised to leave me all kinds of “fun” crafts including glue and glitter. Now I am not sure if I have shared with you my policy on glitter but it basically is I don’t want to see it. I don’t want glitter in my room, I don’t want glitter near my room or near my person either. So I have been brainstorming what would be as annoying as glitter is for me for this seasoned teacher. So tomorrow my class starts the day off with an exciting MAP (standardized test) review. Yuck. I know very few teacher, much less students who like to do that. Then later in the day, I have all kinds of computer/SmartBoard centered activities since this teacher is a bit of a technophobe. 

As a bonus April Fool’s trick, before I left school today, I started up all the student computers in my room and pressed control + alt + down arrow. On most of our more modern computers in the building, this key combo will change the orientation of the screen so that it is upside down. So when they go to do the computer activities she will have twelve groups of students with questions on why their computer monitor is displaying upside down! Hehe. April Fool’s little children and teacher; all with one April Fool’s gag! How much fun is that.

Something I am looking forward to tomorrow… rest time!

Something I am not looking forward to tomorrow other than activities that involve glitter and glue… have lunch at 10 something. Good night!

I will let you know how it goes.

FYI and on a totally different topic… I have upgraded this blog to WordPress 2.5 which adds a bunch of new features and a completely re-designed admin area. So if something isn’t working, this is why. I will also be looking to find out where my links went in the sidebar. I believe this has something to do with the upgrade or an inactivated widget or something. 

2 Responses to this post.

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    Posted by Ben on 31.03.08 at 9:35 pm

    Nice April Fools Day, Christopher! I was actually planning on doing the same thing with the monitors in my room as well. Can’t wait to see those 5th graders come in, wake up their computers, and see their screens flipped upside down :)

    Let us know how Kindergarten goes. I’m shuddering now just to think of how your morning will go :)

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