Hook, Line, and Sinker!

Yes, this is how our April  began....with a hunt to see the elusive Lirpaloof Bird.  The students learned some important characteristics like you can only see the bird at the beginning of April, Lirpaloofs like carrots, and, don't forget, you can not yell at the Lirpaloof.  You must sing to it.  The students read all about it in an article.  The students studied hard so that we would be successful on our sight seeing tour.

Unfortunately,  there were no lirpaloofs out when we were searching.  So, the students returned to the classroom and we decided to do some word work with the word Lirpaloof.  We worked to find as many words as we could in the word using the letters in Lipaloof.  The students used the Word Wizard app to help them and recorded the different words they found on a paper and on the board.  

After about 15 minutes, the students had made over 25 words.  When they were sharing together, it dawned on the....Lirpaloof was April fool backwards!  Gotcha!