I Let AI Run My Classroom for 24 Hours… Here’s the Hilarious Chaos (and the 7 Prompts That Actually Saved Me)
Last Thursday I was sick, exhausted, and out of subs.
So I did the most unhinged thing possible: I let free AI teach my 4th graders for an entire day.
Spoiler: We all survived. Barely. And I now have the 7 prompts I’ll use until retirement.
6:45 a.m. – AI Wrote My Sub Plans While I Was Still in Bed
Prompt to Claude:
Write hilarious, detailed sub plans for a 4th grade class with no sub. Include a schedule, 5 no-prep activities, seating chart drama notes, and end with “If all else fails, play the emergency Kahoot link below.” Make the sub (me watching from home) laugh three times.
Result: The sub (me in pajamas) cried laughing at “Please don’t let Jayden near the glue sticks. He thinks it’s snack time.”
8:12 a.m. – AI Became Morning Meeting Host
Gemini prompt → 3-minute scripted morning meeting with greeting, share, and joke of the day.
The joke AI told: “Why don’t skeletons fight each other? They don’t have the guts.”
The class lost it. Day = won.
9:27 a.m. – The Great “AI Writes Our Story” Disaster
I let ChatGPT co-write a class story.
Prompt:
“Continue this story in the style of Diary of a Wimpy Kid: ‘Today in class we found a secret portal behind the whiteboard…’”
Result: The story ended with the principal turning into a giant hamster.
We read it aloud. I have never heard 24 kids laugh that hard. Ever.
11:05 a.m. – AI Saved Math Block with One Prompt
Prompt to MagicSchool.ai:
Turn today’s fractions lesson into a 20-minute escape room where students have to ‘feed the correct fraction pizza’ to free the trapped class pet (a stuffed turtle named Kevin).
Kevin was freed in 18 minutes. Math block = zero complaints.
1:15 p.m. – AI Turned Dismissal into a Dance Party
Suno.ai prompt:
“30-second upbeat dismissal song that lists every student’s name and ends with ‘See you tomorrow, superstars!’”
Played it at 2:55. Half the parents filmed it from the doorway.
3:30 p.m. – The Parent Emails Started Rolling In
- “Best day ever???”
- “Can you be sick more often?”
- “My kid said school was ‘like a YouTube video but real’”
Want me to generate tomorrow’s entire day plan right now so you can call in “sick” guilt-free?
Drop your grade + one subject in the comments and I’ll run the full 24-hour AI takeover live, for free.
Teaching doesn’t always have to be serious.
Sometimes it just needs to be stupidly fun.
