Student/Teacher Essay

Hannah P.
Category: K-3 Elementary
Age: 7 / Grade: 2
Canopy Oaks Elementary School
Tallahassee, Florida
Teacher: Ms. Miranda Kelly

 

Hannah’s Humor Essay

I’ve chosen to write about humor because it’s an important part of my life. Without humor, I think everyone I the world would be sad. There would be no jokes, no laughter, no fun games, no fun places, and no happiness at ALL! Humor makes my life happy. Here are a few reasons why.

First, humor makes my life fun! When you make someone laugh, it makes you feel good, and that’s fun! Playing with your friends and laughing about humorous situations is very fun. In all these ways, humor helps make my life fun!

Next, humor is a very useful tool for making friends. Most kids like nice, funny people. For example, a new student just moved into my class at school. Telling funny stories and jokes while spending time getting to know her helped us become better friends faster. I also go to NetKids (a program at my church) and humor has helped me make friends there (because this is my first year in NetKids) by laughing, talking and sharing funny jokes and stories while we play.

One funny story I sometimes share with new friends is “The Philip Story”. This is a story about my baby brother (Philip). One day we went to the mall, Philip was tired and grouchy. He didn’t want to share his French fries with me; so he ran! As he ran, his baggy, droopy, sweat pants fell lower and lower until they were around his little ankles! I find this story very funny and it is a good way to make talking to new friends a little easier-using humor!

Finally, humor helps change my emotions, there’s nothing like laughter to change my mood from mad, sad, frustrated, and grouchy to happy, glad, excited, and delighted! One day I got a little chunk of wood stuck underneath my fingernail, I was in a lot of pain and very unhappy. My mom got the wood out and then used humor (by singing a silly song) to help change my emotion from unhappy to happy again. Laughing just helps make you feel better!

In closing, playing with and making new friends, sharing funny stories, learning new games and jokes, and being able to change my emotions are just a few ways humor benefits my life everyday.