Teacher is Mean

So yesterday was April Fool's Day, and I thought it was a great chance to teach some of my older kids about an American tradition.

In Korea, some of the older kids are aware of the day, but they call it Lie Day. As in you tell people lies. Some of the kids caused a mini-stir when they called home on their cell phones to tell their parents that they had an extra test and needed to stay at school for an extra hour. Of course the parents called the school, and the people at the desk and to come in and scold the kids. For the record they called from the bathroom, so no teachers knew what they were doing.

I decided that with these older kids, I could play a prank on them. They are all in 5th grade, so they're pretty with it. Well I went to and printed of some word searches. Which were impossible.

We have a sticker reward system at my school, and on the typical day a kid gets 2-4 stickers. I offered 10 stickers to the first person who could solve the word search.

We had plenty of time after our lesson, for some reason the class is 10 minutes longer than all other classes but we don't get much more material, so I gave them 15 minutes to work on it. At the end of class, I told them all "April Fools!"

They were not impressed.