{"id":483,"date":"2016-03-30T06:10:08","date_gmt":"2016-03-30T06:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fulbridge.org\/?p=483"},"modified":"2016-03-30T06:23:08","modified_gmt":"2016-03-30T06:23:08","slug":"lesson-of-the-week-april-fools-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fulbridge.org\/w\/lesson-of-the-week-april-fools-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesson of the Week: April Fool&#8217;s Day!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/fulbridge.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/\ucea1\ucc98-1.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-490\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-490\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fulbridge.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/\ucea1\ucc98-1-300x230.jpg?resize=300%2C230\" alt=\"\ucea1\ucc98\" width=\"300\" height=\"230\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fulbridge.org\/w\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/\ucea1\ucc98-1.jpg?resize=300%2C230&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fulbridge.org\/w\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/\ucea1\ucc98-1.jpg?w=647&amp;ssl=1 647w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>April Fool&#8217;s Day Lesson<\/em> by\u00a0Preston Nanney (South Korea 2014) and various other websites!<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Start off April 1st with an April Fool&#8217;s Day lesson! This lesson of the week is a lot more free form, and will contain lesson and activity materials, resources, and ideas. It&#8217;s not a formal lesson that you can download, but instead,\u00a0contains a multitude of resources for you to tailor for your own lesson ^^ Therefore, this lesson is suitable for all ages!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m going to be listing mainly website resources, so credit goes to those sites. But for a fun vocabulary\/new classroom rules prank, you can use ETA Preston Nanney&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/fulbridge.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/New-Class-Rules.ppt\" rel=\"\">New Class Rules<\/a>\u00a0PPT.<\/p>\n<p>Start off your class with a teacher prank (fora list of great teacher prank ideas <a href=\"http:\/\/squareheadteachers.com\/2013\/03\/28\/teachers-april-fools-day-pranks\/\" target=\"_blank\">HERE<\/a>!) You can give students a really difficult test, or even create some new and ridiculous English classroom rules or grading\/homework assignments. The possibilities are endless. After you reveal the joke&#8230;you can show your students a really funny classroom prank.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"770\" height=\"433\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/R9rymEWJX38?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>You can then teach your students some fun facts and background about April fools day (check some fun facts out <a href=\"http:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2013\/08\/16\/world\/april-fools-day-fast-facts\/\" target=\"_blank\">HERE<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>And for some fun activities afterwards, you can find alot of print outs and activities:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/busyteacher.org\/4833-foolproof-fun-lesson-activities-for-april-fools.html\" target=\"_blank\">Activity Ideas<\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/edhelper.com\/April_Fools_Day.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Print Outs<\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0Worksheets: <a href=\"http:\/\/bogglesworldesl.com\/april_fools_worksheets.htm\" target=\"_blank\">(1)<\/a> \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/busyteacher.org\/classroom_activities-vocabulary\/holidays_and_celebrations\/april_fools-worksheets\/\" target=\"_blank\">(2)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Happy April Fool&#8217;s Day~~~<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>April Fool&#8217;s Day Lesson by\u00a0Preston Nanney (South Korea 2014) and various other websites!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":490,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[49,89,90,21,22],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fulbridge.org\/w\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/\ucea1\ucc98-1.jpg?fit=647%2C495&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fulbridge.org\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fulbridge.org\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fulbridge.org\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fulbridge.org\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fulbridge.org\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=483"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/fulbridge.org\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":491,"href":"https:\/\/fulbridge.org\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483\/revisions\/491"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fulbridge.org\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fulbridge.org\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fulbridge.org\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fulbridge.org\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}