An 8th grader surprised Ms. Brown - the 8th grade homeroom and English teacher - with a JAWSOME chocolate shark for Valentine´s Day, personalizing the thoughtful gift based on Ms. Brown´s known affinity for puns and sea creatures. From frosted sugar cookies to Sour Patch Kids, students brought in sweet treats for their classmates. Mrs. Powell - the middle school science and technology teacher - gave students Airheads attached to punny Valentine´s Day Cards (i.e. ¨You are DINO-mite¨). For a little childhood nostalgia and as a subtle nod back to a nonfiction article, ¨Top Gifts of the Decades,¨ read previously in English class, Ms. Brown packed mini, heart-shaped slinkys - a top toy of the 1940s! - into Valentine´s Day goodie bags filled with sour treats and punny stickers!

Can you interpret the puns on the sticker boxes? Are they word play on multiple-meaning words or similar-sounding words?



Sticker box pun interpretation from top to bottom of photo: 

A. Puurfect Valentine = word play on similar-sounding words (perfect v. puurfect).

B. (hedge)HUGS = word play on similar-sounding words (hedgehugs v. hedgehogs).

C. Wanna hang? = word play on multiple-meaning words (hang: to spend time together v. hang: to be suspended from above with the lower part dangling free).



When one 8th grader declared that the frosted sugar cookies tasted ¨like bread¨ due to their flaky texture, the class found some laughs in the simile´s parallels to a scene in the 2017 movie,  Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle. In the related scene, Jack Black´s character mistakes loaves of bread for cake, inadvertently causing Kevin Hart´s character to taste it and panic when he realizes it is actually cake - his video game character´s odd - but now unexpectedly pertinent - weakness.

One 8th grader brought in rose cupcakes for teachers! Thank you, Mianna!