Where do bees wait? At the buzz stop.
- Andrew, Age six

Another unique attribute of human beings is our sense of humour. Laughter transcends all human beings. Its positive effects on psychological functions include a drop in the pulse rate, the secretion of endorphins, an increased oxygen in the blood. It has been found to liberate creativity and provoke such higher level thinking skills as anticipation, finding novel relationships, visual imagery, and making analogies. People who engage in the mystery of humour have the ability to perceive situations from an original and often interesting vantagepoint. They tend to initiate humour more often, to place greater value on having a sense of humour, to appreciate and understand others' humour and to be verbally playful when interacting with others. Having a whimsical frame of mind, they thrive on finding incongruity and perceiving absurdities, ironies and satire; finding discontinuities and being able to laugh at situations and themselves. Some students find humour in all the "wrong places"--human differences, ineptitude, injurious behaviour, vulgarity, violence and profanity. They laugh at others yet are unable to laugh at themselves.

We want our student to acquire the characteristic of creative problem solvers, they can distinguish between situations of human frailty and fallibility which are in need of compassion and those which are truly funny. (Dyer, 1997).-Arthur L. Costa, Ed. D.

Learning Activities:
* If you are not enjoying what you are doing, think about how can you make it better.
* Find something funny out of something boring.
* In your Journal, retell a humorous event that occurred that week.