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Grade 4 - How we express ourselves

The Funny Side

Central Idea
Humor is a universal form of expression.

An inquiry into:
- How humor is communicated through the arts
- The elements and styles of comic design
- How there are humorous situations in everyday life

Online Catalogue

Call Number, Title by Author

  • CD E A light in the attic. Shel Silverstein. A light in the attic -- Bear in there -- Rock 'n' roll band -- Eight balloons -- The sitter -- Quick trip -- How not to have to dry the dishes -- Squishy touch --an others.....Shel Silverstein performs his own poetry with instrumental background. A collection of humorous poems.
  • CD 811 Where the sidewalk ends. Shel Silverstein. "Recited, sung and shouted by Shel Silverstein" . A boy who turns into a TV set and a girl who eats a whale are only two of the characters in a collection of humorous poetry.
  • BKC E Amelia Bedelia and the surprise shower. Amelia Bedelia and Alcolu get into trouble when their literal interpretations of party instructions don't turn out to be what is expected.
  • BKC E Amelia Bedelia. A literal-minded housekeeper causes a ruckus in the household when she attempts to make sense of some instructions.
  • BKC E  Animals should definitely not wear clothing. Depicts the inconveniences animals would be burdened with if they behaved like people.
  • BKC E Horton hears Who! and Horton hatches an egg.
  • DVD 796 1000 sports bloopers & antics. Funniest sports bloopers -- Super-duper sports bloopers -- Sports bloopers country style -- Sym-funny of sports bloopers -- Old school stunts and bloopers. Voiceover by Kris Chandler. View the funniest scenes of athletic mayhem, mishaps, and embarassment ever caught on film.
  • DVD 812 Best of fractured fairy tales.
  • DVD 812 The Chaplin collection. A collection of four Charlie Chaplin films.
  • DVD 812 Cloudy with a chance of meatballs. The story of the town where food and drink came down from the clouds, and the trouble created when the "weather" went awry.
  • VID 812 Dr. Seuss: Green eggs and ham.
  • DVD 812 Giggle, giggle, quack-- and more funny favorites. Giggle, giggle, quack narrated by Randy Travis.Most wonderful egg in the world narrated by Ian Thomson.Foolish frog performed by Pete Seeger. Presents four funny animal stories, including the title work in which Duck makes trouble while Farmer Brown is on vacation by changing all his instructions to notes the animals like much better.
  • VID 812 The gods must be crazy. Marius Weyers, Sandra Prinsloo, N!xao, the Bushman. When a primitive Bushman (starring a real-life Bushman) finds a coke bottle, he sets out to return it to the gods, and encounters the insanity of "civilization" for the first time.
  • VID 812 How to eat fried worms.Billy's friends bet him that he can't eat a worm a day for 15 days, and the prize is a red dirt bike.
  • VID 812 The Princess who had never laughed. A forlorn princess yearns for laughs, but her stern father demands to be addressed as "Your Seriousness." Growing up without humor, the Princess becomes more and more morose, finally locking herself in her royal bedchamber and refusing to leave. The King, in desperation, declares a royal Laugh-off to make his daughter happy.
  • VID 812 Rip Van Winkle. Presents the legend of Rip Van Winkle who took a nap for 20 years.
  • VID 812 Unknown Marx brothers. A journey through rare home movies, insightful interviews with family members and film clips that give an intimate portraitthree of the men known as the Marx Brothers.
  • DVD 812 Willy Wonka and the chocolate factory. Poor boy, Charlie Bucket is rewarded by eccentric candy-maker, Willy Wonker, for a kind heart.