April Fools' Day
1 minK1st2nd3rd4th5thSocial Studies
Summary
April Fools! How did April 1st become a holiday of jokes and pranks?
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Discussion questions
Discussion
Short explainer (1 min) from PBS LearningMedia's *All About the Holidays*.
- What are some ideas about how April Fools' Day started?
- What makes a joke funny instead of hurtful?
- What is a famous prank you have heard about?
Quick work-a-long
Vocabulary: prank, hoax, tradition, calendar.
Try it: Write a rule your class could use to tell a kind joke from an unkind one.