Le Poisson d'avril!
Bonjour tout le monde! I hope you're all having a great school year! Today is the first day of my spring break, and I'm really looking forward to some rest and relaxation, and some time to catch up on my blogging :). And it looks like spring is finally arriving here in Michigan! I feel invigorated already! I've been teaching for a number of years, but for some reason I've never included Le Poisson d'avril (the French equivalent of April Fool's) activities in my classes. I tried it for the first time this week, and was happy with how it went. I explained the French tradition of taping paper fish on the backs of others without their knowledge and then yelling "Poisson d'avril" when the prank has been discovered. My classroom mannequin, Jacques, was decked out with fish in order to draw attention to the activity. The paper fish are traditionally taped on one's back, but I put them on the front here so that students could see them....