1. Monday = Pun-Day & Language Fun-Day Start this interactive PowerPoint by pressing F5; then, use the space bar to navigate through the riddles and jokes!

2. Monday = Pun-Day & Language Fun-Day My classroom is student-centered, meaning I often let my writers take control of the routines I establish with them. To build a love of language, we set aside ten minutes at the end of class on Monday as "Pun-Day" or Language "Fun-Day," and my students bring in some pretty hysterical things that make us all appreciate language."Pun-Day" or Language "Fun-Day," Once it’s established, the routine takes a month or two to catch on, but once it's going and students are bringing in classroom-appropriate blurbs to share (in PowerPoint format like mine are thanks to this template I provide), my classroom becomes a student- centered pleasure. To establish the routine and its expectations, I have created forty interactive "Pun-" and "Fun-Day" PowerPoint slides. Visit my Teachers Pay Teachers Store to find out how to purchase this new resource from the summer of 2016.this templateTeachers Pay Teachers Store The following six slides (plus slide #3, which shares one of my rationalizations for this product) are a sampler of what I share with students during my establishment of the routine. There are forty slides in the product we are selling from TPT for only $9.99. If you’re interested in purchasing these materials when I finalize them, email me, or if you “follow” me at Teachers Pay Teachers, you’ll receive an email from them when this (and other products) are added or updated.email meTeachers Pay Teachers

3. What would you definitely find in Charles Dickens’ kitchen spice rack? The best of thymes and the worst of thymes. Love the Language Explanation: The first paragraph of Dickens’ classic, A Tale of Two Cities, begins with “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.”

4. Love the Language Rationale for these slides: When I was in third grade, I received an Old Maid-like card game called “Authors.” Eleven famous authors were represented, and four of their most famous works were listed on each card. I played this game for hours and hours with my mother and brothers. Without ever having read Shakespeare, I could tell you the names of four of his best plays. Knowing about these authors before I was old enough to read them made me that much more eager to read them when the time came. This slide is just for teachers; it explains why I think it’s okay to introduce a Dickens joke before ever having read Dickens It’s okay to plant a literary or language reference early on!

5. What did author Harper Lee write after seeing 2000 migrating mockingbirds? Love the Language Two Kilo Explanation: Author Harper Lee published her Pulitzer Prize- winning novel To Kill a Mockingbird in 1960. Although mockingbirds are just briefly discussed in the book, the famous main character has another bird-inspired name: Atticus Finch.

6. It’s weird that we park on driveways and drive on parkways, but do you know what’s even weirder? That we have noses that run and feet that smell! Love the Language Park on the drive… Drive on the park…

7. Love the Language Question: What the only five-letter word in English that becomes shorter when you add two letters to it? Answer: short

8. How do you make copyeditors vomit? Show them a typo. It will make themm [sic]. Love the Language Explanation: sic means ‘so thus’ in Latin. If an editor is quoting something written that has an error in it, he or she will follow the error with sic in brackets to indicate he or she saw the error but left it uncorrected.

9. Why didn’t Alfie the Apostrophe get asked on a second date? Love the Language He acted a bit too possessive on the first one! Explanation: Apostrophes are the punctuation mark that— together with the letter s—turn nouns into possessive nouns. Jane and ball are both nouns. If you write Jane’s ball, the apostrophe shows that Jane possesses (or owns) the ball. Purchase a classroom copy of Alfie the Apostrophe at Amazon!Alfie the Apostrophe

10. Monday = Pun-Day & Language Fun-Day My classroom is student-centered, meaning I often let my writers take control of the routines I establish with them. To build a love of language, we set aside ten minutes at the end of class on Monday as "Pun-Day" or Language "Fun-Day," and my students bring in some pretty hysterical things that make us all appreciate language."Pun-Day" or Language "Fun-Day," Once it’s established, the routine takes a month or two to catch on, but once it's going and students are bringing in classroom-appropriate blurbs to share (in PowerPoint format like mine are thanks to this template I provide), my classroom becomes a student- centered pleasure. To establish the routine and its expectations, I have created forty interactive "Pun-" and "Fun-Day" PowerPoint slides. Visit my Teachers Pay Teachers Store to find out how to purchase this new resource from the summer of 2016.this templateTeachers Pay Teachers Store The following six slides (plus slide #3, which shares one of my rationalizations for this product) are a sampler of what I share with students during my establishment of the routine. There are forty slides in the product we are selling from TPT for only $9.99. If you’re interested in purchasing these materials when I finalize them, email me, or if you “follow” me at Teachers Pay Teachers, you’ll receive an email from them when this (and other products) are added or updated.email meTeachers Pay Teachers