Let’s Share a Laugh!
Posted by Hope Spencer on 26 Nov 2009 | Posted in: Inspiration and Motivation
Don’t you think kids are the easiest people to work with? They will tell you when you have stuff in your teeth or if your shoes look odd to them. They are honest about feeling sad or bored. Sometimes they will hug you for no reason at all. But my favorite thing about kids is that they love to laugh!
Of course, I have to make a confession: I love corny jokes. My nieces are seven and ten years old, respectively. My husband doesn’t like to ride in the car with the three of us because we start telling jokes and we can’t stop. He’s trapped! Here are some of our favorites.
- When is a car not a car? When it turns into a driveway.
- Where does a king keep his armies? In his “sleevies.”
- What happens when a banana gets a sunburn? He starts to peel.
Do you and your kids have a favorite joke or funny moment? I’d love to laugh with you and your students today.
Always leave them laughing—oh, and check your teeth in the mirror before the kids arrive!
Hope
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THATS TRUE ABOUT KIDS. I ALSO WISH I COULD BE LIKE KIDS ALWAYS.
THEY ARE A GOOD MIRROR OF ADULTS- EVEN THEIR TEACHERS TOO.
I LIKE THE KIDS. SO WONDERFUL.
here is another one, one day for show and tell a child brought in his mothers bright purple metal tweezers. I asked him what it was and he said “it’s for pulling out your chin hairs” !!!
I work with young Pre-K’s. We were reading “Dear Zoo”. In the book the child writes to the zoo to send him/her a pet. Each page features a lift the flap with a zoo animal in a packing crate or box and tells why the child sent it back. “…they sent me a snake but it was tooo scary. I sent it back”. So for art I gave them each a box cutout and had them draw what was inside the box. I got to my oldest student who decided to draw a goat with horns. When I asked why he “sent it back” he said in perfect innocence, “because it was too horny!”
Teachers have a lot of influence in a child’s home. I had a family member share this one with me. The family was gathered around the Thanksgiving table. (Extended family as well.)My student, their child, began to act up. Daddy pulled out his cell phone and requested my phone number from the mom. Mom immediately rattled off 1-800-tea-cher (Not really my number but it didn’t matter.)Little student sat bolt upright and urgently requested that I be not summoned! Dad said ok this time but she had better behave. They did not have one bit of trouble with her at the table. All the other parents requested that phone number as well!
I am a teacher of English as a second language in Spain. On one particular day I was erasing the blackboard and a little girl looks at me and says: “Conxi, you are wearing such a nice top, I love it. Will you give it to me when it’ll get too small for you to wear?
My son was three years old at the time and was attending a prekindergarten in southern Jersey. On this particular afternoon he came running off the bus to tell me, “Mom, our bus driver has hair on his yip!” The next day I went out to the bus with him, and sure enough, the bus driver had a moustache (it was noteable for my son because it was unusually long and the driver had waxed it to curl up). That has given us a good laugh many times since then.
I teach second grade and one day, a boy handed me a piece of paper and asked me to sign my name. I signed my name in pen and handed it back to him. He looked at it funny (you should have seen his face), handed it back to me, and said, “Would you write this in English please?” I laughed and then printed my name for him. It was the funniest thing!!
When I was pregnant with my first child (who is 21 years old now) one of my students came in all excited. She said, “Mrs. Powell, guess what? When your baby gets borned, the doctor is going to cut its vocal cords!”
I admit, there have been a few times when I wished…
My students were working on a group project. As I neared I heard one child say, “My Grandma lives in a condom.” (”Oh, dear”, I thought. “I’ll have to deal with that.”)Without even looking up another child said, Don’t you mean in a condo?” “Oh, yeah” said the first, “a condo.” All the 5th graders continued to work without making a connection. Crisis averted.
If April showers bring may flowers, what do May flowers bring?
Why pilgrims of course.
New joke to annoy your husband with.
My husband asked our 5 year old son if he would like frozen waffles for dinner and our son replied with: Dad don’t you think we should cook them. BTW: our son is now 30+ years of age. Talk about memories.
During National Children’s Book Week, I have guest readers come to read to my first graders. My mom came in as one of the readers and told the class that she would be reading the book “One Morning in Maine.” One of my students immediately replied, “My dad ran with the bulls in Maine!” Maine, Spain…all the same, I guess!