Humor

=Funny Video Clips= http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIMFL9wRaJE - funny videos of toddlers wiping out http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2D8jwyBJa50 - teacher teaching ABC's and principal trying to correct (coach) her. Could be great when including coaching humor or talking about scaffolding and how scaffolding is good but sometimes we attempt to scaffold too much. http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/clips/p00ctlvg/the_one_ronnie_clips_blackberry_sketch/ -Apple/Blackberry video

http://crazythingsparentssay.failblog.org/ (Crazy Things Parents Say)

http://www.rd.com/clean-jokes-and-laughs (Reader's Digest)

Cheers- Normisms

Excuses Authors: Unknown || code These are excuse notes from parents (including original spelling) code code collected by schools from all over the country. code code 1. My son is under a doctor's care and should not take P.E. code code today. Please execute him. code code 2. Please excuse Lisa for being absent. She was sick and I had code code her shot. code code 3. Dear School: Please ekscuse John being absent on Jan. 28, 29, code code 30, 31, 32, and also 33. code code 4. Please excuse Gloria from Jim today. She is administrating. code code 5. Please excuse Roland from P.E. for a few days. Yesterday he code code fell out of a tree and misplaced his hip. code code 6. John has been absent because he had two teeth taken out of his code code face. code code 7. Carlos was absent yesterday because he was playing football. code code He was hurt in the growing part. code code 8. Megan could not come to school today because she has been code code bothered by very close veins. code code 9. Chris will not be in school cus he has an acre in his side. code code 10. Please excuse Ray Friday from school. He has very loose code code vowels. code code 11. Please excuse Pedro from being absent yesterday. He had code code (diahre) (dyrea) (direathe) the shits. [words in 's were crossed out.] code code 12. Please excuse Tommy for being absent yesterday. He had code code diarrhea and his boots leak. code code 13. Irving was absent yesterday because he missed his bust. code code 14. Please excuse Jimmy for being. It was his father's fault. code code 15. I kept Billie home because she had to go Christmas shopping code code because I don't know what size she wear. code code 16. Please excuse Jennifer for missing school yesterday. We code code forgot to get the Sunday paper off the porch, and when we found code code it Monday, we thought it was Sunday. code code 17. Sally won't be in school a week from Friday. We have to code code attend her funeral. code code 18. My daughter was absent yesterday because she was tired. She code code spent a weekend with the Marines. code code 19. Please excuse Jason for being absent yesterday. He had a cold code code and could not breed well. code code 20. Please excuse Mary for being absent yesterday. She was in bed code code with gramps. code code 21. Gloria was absent yesterday as she was having a gangover. code code 22. Please excuse Burma, she has been sick and under the doctor. code code 23. Maryann was absent December 11-16, because she had a fever, code code sore throat, headache and upset stomach. Her sister was also code code sick, fever and sore throat, her brother had a low grade fever code code and ached all over. I wasn't the best either, sore throat and code code fever. There must be something going around, her father even got code code hot last night. code code 24. Please excuse little Jimmy for not being in school yesterday. code code His father is gone and I could not get him ready because I was in code code bed with the doctor. code Children Are Quick

TEACHER: Maria, go to the map and find North America. MARIA: Here it is. TEACHER: Correct. Now class, who discovered America ? CLASS: Maria.

TEACHER: John, why are you doing your math multiplication on the floor? JOHN: You told me to do it without using tables.

__TEACHER: Glenn, how do you spell 'crocodile?'__ __GLENN: K-R-O-K-O-D-I-A-L'__ __TEACHER: No, that's wrong__ __GLENN: Maybe it is wrong, but you asked me how I spell it.__

__TEACHER: Donald, what is the chemical formula for water?__ __DONALD: H I J K L M N O.__ __TEACHER: What are you talking about?__ __DONALD: Yesterday you said it's H to O.__

TEACHER: Winnie, name one important thing we have today that we didn't have ten years ago. WINNIE: Me!

__TEACHER: Glen, why do you always get so dirty?__ __GLEN: Well, I'm a lot closer to the ground than you are.__ _

TEACHER: Millie, give me a sentence starting with ' I. ' MILLIE: I is.. TEACHER: No, Millie..... Always say, 'I am.' MILLIE: All right... 'I am the ninth letter of the alphabet.'

TEACHER: George Washington not only chopped down his father's cherry tree, but also admitted it. Now, Louie, do you know why his father didn't punish him? LOUIS: Because George still had the axe in his hand....

__TEACHER: Now, Simon, tell me frankly, do you say prayers before eating?__ __SIMON: No sir, I don't have to, my Mom is a good cook.__

TEACHER: Clyde, your composition on 'My Dog' is exactly the same as your brother's.. Did you copy his? CLYDE : No, sir. It's the same dog. _

TEACHER: Harold, what do you call a person who keeps on talking when people are no longer interested? HAROLD: A teacher