Today's Classroom Activities :

Classroom Chuckles

Classroom Chuckles
Language Make a smiley face on an empty plastic container. As the children find jokes or humorous parts in stories, provide slips of paper on which to copy them. Put the slips in the smiley can. When you have to wait for a few minutes, call on students to select and read a chuckle. Was it funny? What made it funny?(Get some joke books from the library to have around the room.)

Funny Photos
Language Have everyone (including the teacher!) bring in pictures of family members or animals doing funny things. Post the pictures on large bulletin board paper. Allow various children to write a short caption under each photo. What is it that makes them funny? Can the action be explained in one sentence?

What's So Funny?
Language In celebration of Humor Month, have students select and share their favorite funny stories. Ask the children why we say we've hit our "funny bone" when we bang our elbows. (This nickname derives from the humerus, the long bone that runs from the elbow to the shoulder.) Have students research and present the various forms of humor.

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