Clowning at Cayuga Heights Elementary School

My lacrosse coach, Heather Murphy is a special education teacher in the school district as works at Cayuga Heights Elementary School with K-2 grades. I approached her a few days ago about clowning in her classroom and she said absolutely! We haven't set a firm date but we agreed on sometime in May, after all of the AP testing is over. Today on our bus ride home from our away game we talked about what her kids find funny. She is a great resource on how humor develops in children and what they find funny, since part of her job is to teach the kids she works with  how to interact socially and understand humor and sarcasm (because apparently they don't right now) From her descriptions, these kids are probably funnier than I ever will be without even knowing it. They have a hard time understanding the flow of conversations and plays on words go completely over their heads. They laugh when they think they're supposed to, not because they understood what was funny. So basically I could get up there and start laughing and they would laugh to because they think something must have been funny so nows the time to laugh. (this will be a great confidence boost!) Coach suggested that I bring in props and use those because visual humor is easier for them to understand. Knock-knock jokes are definitely out of the picture, but any funny sounds or questions I want to ask them are good things to do. Before this event I have to figure out how to use props and what I am going to do with them! I'm excited to go in and work with the kids in her classroom though because I've been hearing hilarious stories about their antics for years and have only met one or two of them.