No one knows exactly where, when or why April Fool’s Day began.

The most popular theory about the origin of April Fool’s Day involves the French calendar reform of the sixteenth century. In 1564 France reformed its calendar, moving the start of the year from the end of March to January 1. The people who failed to keep up with the change, who stubbornly clung to the old calendar system and continued to celebrate the New Year during the week that fell between March 25th and April 1st, had jokes played on them.

April Fool’s Day fall on the first day of April.

The earliest recorded association between April 1, pranks and foolishness can be found in

Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales which was written in 1392.                                          kidskonnect.com

Test, Test, Test

I Can Take Tests

Pi Day

March 14th (3/14)

Pi Day is celebrated on March 14th (3/14) around the world. Pi (Greek letter “π”) is the symbol used in mathematics to represent a constant — the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter — which is approximately 3.14159.Pi has been calculated to over one trillion digits beyond its decimal point.

History of Pi

By measuring circular objects, it has always turned out that a circle is a little more than 3 times its width around. In the Old Testament of the Bible (1 Kings 7:23), a circular pool is referred to as being 30 cubits around, and 10 cubits across. The mathematician Archimedes used polygons with many sides to approximate circles and determined that Pi was approximately 22/7. The symbol (Greek letter “π”) was first used in 1706 by William Jones. A ‘p’ was chosen for ‘perimeter’ of circles, and the use of π became popular after it was adopted by the Swiss mathematician Leonhard Euler in 1737. In recent years, Pi has been calculated to over one trillion digits past its decimal. Only 39 digits past the decimal are needed to accurately calculate the spherical volume of our entire universe, but because of Pi’s infinite & patternless nature, it’s a fun challenge to memorize, and to computationally calculate more and more digits. http://www.piday.org/learn-about-pi/

Presidential Experts

Make each of your students an “expert” on one president. Put together a living museum with five students speaking as the commander in chief per day. Use a simple Web Diagram worksheet to dictate which aspects of the president’s term should be emphasized.

Presidential Bingo

Give students a list of 24 presidents and instruct them to fill one in each box of a Bingo card (Don’t forget to leave the middle space free!). Then read a brief description of one of the 24 presidents. Students will check off the president they think you are describing. The first student with five checked off presidents in a row on the Bingo card wins!

Repost from We Are Teachers

Dr. Seuss Book List 

The books in the Dr. Seuss Book List are categorized according to Dr. Seuss’s publishing company, 

Random House’s divisions.

 BEGINNER BOOKS in the Dr. Seuss Book List
(Ages 4-8)

Beginner Books were originally created by Dr. Seuss in order to encourage children to read all by themselves. He took a list of 223 easy-to-read words, found the rhyming ones and created a fun and 

simple blend of pictures and words. All Beginner Books have a picture of one of Dr. Seuss’s most 

famous character creations, the Cat in the Hat, on their cover.

The Cat in the Hat, 1957,
The Cat in the Hat Comes Back! , 1958
One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish, 1960
Green Eggs and Ham, 1960
Hop on Pop, 1963
Dr. Seuss's ABC, 1963
The Cat in the Hat Beginner Book Dictionary, 1964 written with P.D. Eastman
Fox in Socks, 1965
I Wish that I had Duck Feet, 1965 Illustrated by B. Tobey
Come Over to My House, 1966 Illustrated by Richard Erdoes
Wacky Wednesday, 1974 Illustrated by George Booth
Because a Little Bug Went Ka-choo, 1975 Illustrated by Michael Frith
Oh, the Thinks You Can Think!, 1975
The Cat's Quizzer, 1976
Please Try to Remember the First of Octember, 1977 Illustrated by Art Cummings
I Can Read With My Eyes Shut!, 1978
Oh Say Can You Say?, 1979
I Am Not Going to Get Up Today!, 1987 Illustrated by James Stevenson

BEGINNER BOOK EXTRAS in the Dr. Seuss Book List (Ages 4-8)
These Dr. Seuss books are not part of the main series of Beginner Books, but are still considered to 

be part of the Beginner Book Category by Random House.

And to Think That I saw it on Mulberry Street, 1937
The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins, 1938
The Cat in the Hat Song Book, 1967
My Book About Me, 1969, written with Roy McKie
I Can Draw It Myself, 1970
Maybe You should fly a Jet, Maybe You Should be a Vet, 1980 Illustrated by Michael J. Smollin
Hunches in Bunches, 1982
Daisy-Head Mayzie, 1994

BRIGHT & EARLY BOOKS in the Dr. Seuss Book List (Age Preschool)
Dr. Seuss created these books for the “beginning beginners”. With few, simple words and colorful, 

telling pictures the stories are fun and brief for the youngest of kids.

The Foot Book, 1968
The Eye Book, 1968 Illustrated by Joe Mathieu & Roy McKie
Mr. Brown Can Moo! Can You?, 1970
In A People House, 1972 Illustrated by Roy McKie
Marvin K. Mooney Will You Please Go Now!, 1972
The Shape of Me and Other Stuff, 1973
There's a Wocket in My Pocket!, 1974
Great Day for Up, 1974
Would You Rather be a Bullfrog?, 1975 Illustrated by Roy McKie
Hooper Humperdink…? Not Him!, 1976 Illustrated by Charles E. Martin
The Tooth Book, 1989 Illustrated by Joe Mathieu & Roy McKie
The Pop-Up Mice of Mr. Brice 1989 Illustrated by Roy McKie
I Can Write, 1993 Illustrated by Roy McKie

BRIGHT & EARLY BOARD BOOKS in the Dr. Seuss Book List (Ages Baby to Preschool)
As you can see, some of the titles here are the same as in the two categories above. They are the 

same Dr. Seuss stories published into sturdier books for the youngest of the young.

One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish
Ten Apples Up On Top, 1961
Hop on Pop
Dr. Seuss’s ABC: An Amazing Alphabet Book!
The Foot Book
The Eye Book
Mr. Brown Can Moo! Can You?
The Shape of Me and Other Stuff
There's a Wocket in My Pocket!
The Tooth Book

HARDCOVER CLASSICS in the Dr. Seuss Book List (Ages 4-8)
While these books don’t fall into the Beginner Books category they do retain their value to children 

and parents. Many of these Dr. Seuss books contain moral or ethical messages embedded in the funny stories.

The King's Stilts, 1939
Horton Hatches the Egg, 1940
McElligot's Pool, 1947
Thidwick the Big-Hearted Moose, 1948
Bartholomew and the Oobleck, 1949
If I Ran the Zoo, 1950
Scrambled Eggs Super!, 1953
Horton Hears a Who!, 1954
On Beyond Zebra, 1955
If I Ran the Circus, 1956
How the Grinch Stole Christmas, 1957
Yertle the Turtle and Other Stories, 1958
Happy Birthday to You!, 1959
The Sneetches and Other Stories, 1961
Dr. Seuss's Sleep Book, 1962
I Had Trouble in Getting to Solla Sollew, 1965
I Can Lick 30 Tigers Today! And Other Stories, 1969
The Lorax, 1971
Did I Ever Tell You How Lucky You Are?, 1973
The Butter Battle Book, 1984
You're Only Old Once!, 1986
Oh, the Places You'll Go!, 1990
My Many Colored Days, 1996 (posthumous)

Story Jar

Give students the opportunity to learn more about their classmates with a story jar. Write personal topics, such as My favorite place is..., or After school, I…, on slips of paper and place in a jar. At writing time, let each student pick a slip from the jar and write a personal narrative on the chosen topic. Let students share their stories, then return the slips to the jar. Have students periodically pick new topics from the jar.