April Fool's Day in Room 11

• Picture Day!!! Appropriatly for April Fool's Day, after taking several shots of the class and dismissing them, it was discovered that two children were missing from the picture, so everyone had to be collected and led back to wait for a second go at the class picture.
• April Fool's Day is a perfect day for second graders. There was a lot of "There's a bug on your neck!" and "Your shoe is untied," going on. Hardy-har-har. Then two children toppled over each other when one of them really did step on untied shoelaces!
• April Fool's Day is even more fun when it's one of the teachers' birthday. It's time to make birthday cards instead of doing bellwork.
• This afternoon, a neighbor's chickens got out and were wandering around the parking lot at recess time. Three youngsters spent their entire playtime watching the chickens through the fence.
• P.E. couldn't be held in the gym, so the class played "Heads-up-7-up" during P.E. time.
• Young bankers are learning how to order coins from greatest quarters, dimes, nickles, pennies) to least, then count up the total. Most of them seem to enjoy the money activity...they may be running the country's banks some day!
• Everyone participated in a review of adding with carrying and subtracting with borrowing.