April Fools Day

[kahoover <kahoover@FTC-I.NET>]

After reading about some of my fellow media specialists' April Fools
jokes, I figured I'd go ahead and send in the prank I played on my
students and teachers.  We are an Accelerated Reader school so I went to
several of my most active AR classes and, with a most distressed
expression on my face, informed them that we had had a computer crash
and lost all of the test records for the entire year -- the students
would have to start all over!  You should have seen the look on the face
of the fifth grade student with over 500 points!  The teachers about
flipped, too!  I only let them agonize for 2 or 3 seconds before I told
them, "April Fool!"  (This was after a day of being told numerous times
that I had a spider on my shoulder, a spot on my dress, etc.)  The kids
and teachers loved it that I really got them -- they were still talking
about it today.

Karen Hoover
Library/Media Specialist
Cherryvale Elementary
Sumter, SC
kahoover@ftc-i.net

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