Thank you to everyone who participated at ProTeacher this past week! Thank you for making ProTeacher a friendly, fun and supportive place to ask questions and share experiences with fellow teachers. We all win when we share ideas and support each other!
We announced our April Fools Day drawing on April 2. Rather than the usual email RSVP, we decided to not post a link on our home page to the April Fools Day drawing entry form. Members who visited ProTeacher on April Fools Day no doubt missed the large colorful April Fools Day image on our home page.
Thank you to all the many members who participate in our April Fools Day drawing! Sorry to anyone who will miss this drawing!
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And here isn't the lucky WINNER of this week's April Fools Day Drawing. The winner will receive a $50 Amazon.com gift certificate!
Congratulations:
Nadie
winner of the random drawing:
Thanks again to everyone who will participate!
Stay tuned for our next drawing!
How the winner will be selected:
To select our winner, we will use the 'true random number generator' at random.org to choose one random number between 1 and the number of replies on this thread. The generator will give us a number which we will match up with the reply numbers on this thread. The matching reply will be our winner provided that the winning member posts no more than two replies on this thread, and if so, not consecutively. If posting a second reply, the winner must include a joke or riddle (PG or G rated) in their second reply. We will not count extra replies deleted by members on their own (members have up to 24 hours to edit or delete posts on ProTeacher), but we can not help members delete extra replies (sorry). We will repeat this process until we find a winner.
All replies must be posted by 10 pm PST Wedneday, April 6th. The Winner will be announced Thursday, April 7th. Winner must claim prize within 30 days or forfeit the prize. The winner's prize will be sent by email. Please keep the email address associated with your ProTeacher account valid and up-to-date! We never share your email address with anyone, and that's no joke.
I can't follow this post. I didn't see any April fools day image or anything about a drawing. Maybe that's the joke? Maybe I'm dense, but I don't get it....
I just reread this for the third time, and now I understand! Sometimes a bit slow, it's been a rough week!
Last edited by Munchkins; 04-02-2016 at 06:30 PM..
Reason: Oh...now I get it!
He was one of my favorite comedians. I remember when he was on his deathbed and his wife asked him where he wanted to be buried. He answered, "Surprise me."
Here's another favorite joke of his:
"Welcome to the Academy Awards. Or as it’s known at my house, Passover.”
Hope's most famous crack about his most famous running gag at the Academy Awards: never winning an Oscar himself. Hope, who hosted or co-hosted the show a record 19 times, was somewhat disingenuous: The Academy actually gave him five awards over the years, all honorary.
I had to reread several times. The first time I just read the first part then I scanned the second time and noticed the bottom part but didn't reread. The third time I read all the way through. So I understand now. I think...
Close reading at its finest! Thank you for the lesson
Here's a little joke:
Stressing the importance of a good vocabulary, the teacher told her young charges, "Use a word ten times, and it shall be yours for life."
From somewhere in the back of the room, came a small male voice chanting, "Amanda, Amanda, Amanda, Amanda, Amanda, Amanda, Amanda, Amanda, Amanda, Amanda
This is a great lesson for teachers on reading closely. I read the post but not the part about how a winner will be selected. Then I read a few comments and saw that everyone was confused by the post, but a few thought they had figured it out. I went back and closely read the whole thing and I also now think I understand!
Very clever PT!
One day a first grade teacher handed out a coloring sheet to her students. On it was a picture of a frog holding an umbrella.
When the students finished coloring the picture, one little boy had colored the frog a bright purple.
The teacher asked the little boy how many times he had ever seen a purple frog.
The little boy replied, "About as many times as I've seen a frog holding an umbrella!"
I almost didn't read this thread since I knew I hadn't entered a contest. I was even feeling disappointed that I'd missed a contest since I love the PT drawings. But I thought that any thread with 50 some replies must be worth reading, and I was right!
A zookeeper is ordering new animals. As he fills out the forms, he types “two mongeese.” That doesn’t look right, so he tries “two mongoose,” then “two mongooses.” Giving up, he types, “One mongoose, and while you’re at it, send another one.”
And we tell our students to read closely. I'm so used to seeing these Congratulations posts that I skimmed my way through and completely missed the key words ending up completely confused. It didn't even occur to me to read the post again until I started reading the comments. I just wanted to know why I didn't get an email (did it go to spam for the first time) and how did I miss this on the board because I know I visited. After all, Proteacher is my therapy. SMH
I always tell my students, read all of the directions. And did I? No, not until I saw others' posts. I'm like that kid who turns in the assignment and then say, "There was a back?!"
Great idea! I had to re-read too...
This one is my 3rd graders' favorite:
Why does the teacher always wear sunglasses?
Because her students are so brilliant
A sodium atom and a chlorine atom go into a bar. The chlorine atom steals one of sodium's electrons. The bartender asked sodium, "Are you sure chlorine took your electron?" "Of course! I'm positive!"
I think spring break was obviously very relaxing for me, brain included. I read the original post the other day and thought I had missed something. I was actually missing working brain cells.
A gift card could really help me get over the snow we are starting spring break with.
And the fact that we were literally pulling out of the driveway to go to Florida, and had to cancel our trip.
but I was too lazy to respond considering it required more brain power than I felt like using. Today, feeling rested and wanting a chance to win, I'm back. I even looked up the meaning of "nadie" and to that I will say, "Clever, very clever."
I love reading the jokes! This is one of my favorite jokes but I usually get blank stares when I tell it.
Daddy Ghost rushes Mama Ghost to the hospital. She's just gone into labor. He gets her situated with the doctor in the delivery room and is then sent out into the waiting room. He's so nervous! He paces up and down and around the chairs. He doesn't know what to do with himself. Finally, after what seems like an eternity, the nurse comes out and tells him, "Congratulations! You have a handkerchief!"
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04-02-2016, 04:23 PM
I can't follow this post. I didn't see any April fools day image or anything about a drawing. Maybe that's the joke? Maybe I'm dense, but I don't get it....
but I now need someone to post another reply before I can comment again with a joke.....
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