School Fun...Yeah I'm a Pretty Cool Teacher

So we had this random dumb day where we went off track on a Tuesday. I felt like it was going to be a waste of a day with very few students. So I decided to bribe them to come to school for an "awesome activity". All but 1 showed up. The day started off with me explaining that my friends "Mr. and Mrs. Valentine", who I told the students the day before would be helping with our fun activity, had something bad happen last night. I told them that the police came and sectioned of an area in the classroom until they could determine what happened and that they could look but not cross the caution tape. This is what they saw when they came in....

They had fun being detectives and answering questions to help them determine what happened, "of course no violence" ;) Then they wrote a creative story about what they think happened last night.

Then we had some fun  with some fingerprinting 

activities. First we  took our own fingerprints and

determined what type of fingerprint we had. Then

we shared some of our fingerprints with our friends 

so they could determine our fingerprint type. 

Then they were able to brush cocoa powder on plastic covers to find the fingerprints that were already on them. And to top it off we watched The Great Mouse Detective. I'd say it was a success!