New beginnings, renewed goals and resolutions, exciting plans for a successful school year, happy new faces in the classroom… That’s what I always loved about the beginning of a new school year! Since I retired a few years ago, I have been substitute teaching and I still love sharing my talents with students in the classroom. The excitement of a new school year always welcomed me back, and now I can’t wait until I walk into that classroom for my first day of subbing in this new school year.
I still enjoy the riddle adventure when I’m subbing and hope that you will take on the challenge of sharing the magic of riddles with your children, in your classroom, your home, or wherever you may find them!
To you parents looking for a way to show your child’s teacher some appreciation for all (s)he does for your child, I suggest you share my book, Hooked on Riddles, with them. Besides being filled with riddles, it offers strategies to target specific thinking skills. Along with the guidance and hundreds of riddles found in the book, you'll find humorous school related anecdotes that come right out of my third grade classroom. Fun, useful, welcoming, challenging, exciting… Just like the beginning of the new school year.
I wish you all a happy, successful school year! I know you will need sunglasses because your children are so bright!
In joining those of you who celebrated the first day of school by posting and sharing pictures of your child's first day of school, I would like to share a picture of my first child on her first day of Kinder many years ago in Tegucigalpa, the capital city of Honduras. She now has two lovely children of her own. Her youngest child just celebrated her first day of Pre-Kinder this year. And the lovely cycle continues.
(Here's a shout-out and a huge "abrazo" to my American School friends!)
Back to School Riddles:
1. Why did the kid walk backwards to school?
2. Who belongs to the monster school PTA?
3.What’s a witch’s favorite subject in school?
4. What’s an owl’s favorite subject?
5.What’s a snake’s favorite subject?
6.Where did the skunk go to college?
7.What’s the favorite lunch in the
monster school cafeteria?
8.What’s smarter than a talking parrot?
ANSWERS:
1. It was back to school day!
2. Mummies and Deadies.
3.Spell-ing.
4. Owl-jebra!
5.Hisssstory.
6.P.U.
7.Spooketti.
8. A spelling bee.
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