Reading “Humor in the Music Classroom” does not challenge, but rather delight me. It is actually very amusing what children at a young age came up with especially with humor. Children pick up humor from every aspect of their lives and if it is being used in the classroom, they are more attentive in the lesson. This is seen in the reading where the teachers use silly songs or chants to keep the students engaged. The teachers tell a story through the song and the students think it is funny because it is something out of the norm that they can still relate to. It is great to see humor in the classroom because the students enjoy it a lot and see it everywhere in their lives which is why they respond well to it.
Something else humor can do is build a relationship of trust with students. Usually students respond positively to humor. This is seen in the story when the teacher introduces a new student that was already in her class to the students. The teacher built a better relationship with that student because he was not the best of students before, however, the teacher still showed that she cared. In the Halloween story, she is building relationships with all her students because she used humor to show the students what kind of things she likes. Gary came back with humor to show the teacher that he was listening to the lesson the teacher was giving. The teacher took the humor well because the students had taken her humor well the day before and reciprocated the humor.
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