1. Poisson d’Avril
Class 8:

2. L’Histoire
King Charles XIV decided to change the calendar from the Julian to the Georgian. Thus, the New Year was changed from the end of March to January first. All of those who forgot about the change, or were ignorant of it, were deemed as “fools” or in French “fish” and teased on April 1st.
A common prank has since developed! More than likely in France, a child will stick a paper fish onto the back of an adult, then runaway shouting “Poisson d’Avril!”.
Many bakeries and chocolatiers sell chocolate fish pastries to celebrate on April 1st.

3. Vocabulaire Rire (to laugh) Sourire (to smile)
Blaguer or plaisanter (to joke)
Une farce (a practical joke or prank)
Une Blague (a joke)
Hilarant (extremely funny)
Je suis mort(e) de rire (dying from laughter)
For more, visit: aprils-fool-in-france

4. Une Blague C’est l’histoire de deux pommes de terre…
Une d’elles se fait écraser et l’autre s’écrie “Oh purée!”
“This is the story of two potatoes…
One of them is run over and then the other one cries, ‘Oh purée!’”

5. Due to the lack of time…Swedish Fish!

6. Une Vidéo

7. Avez-vous des blagues? Ou des histoires drôles?
Une Blague…again
Avez-vous des blagues? Ou des histoires drôles?

8. Le Petit Prince

9. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (Sahnt Ex-ZOO-peh-ree)
Born in 1900 to a French aristocratic family.
Loved plains since their invetion during his childhood and grew-up to design a postal airplane system for the military.
A writer as well! He wrote of his flying adventures, i.e. Night Flight.
Escaped to America during WWII- Le Petit Prince was written in NYC!
Sadly, he joined the military in 1944, and on a spy plane mission…disappeared.
Source and facts on the symbols in the book:
exupery-facts

10. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (Sahnt Ex-ZOO-peh-ree)

11. Deux Videos