Jon’s been doing the announcements fairly often this year at school, as have some of the other boys in his class. At first they were telling jokes, but last month was Black History month, and Jon did two days: a two-paragraph presentation about Martin Luther King (with others joining in with other paragraphs about MLK) and one about Harriet Tubman.

This week, they returned to their vaudeville roots. Thursday was Jon’s turn to be funny man (he played straight man on Friday). His dear former teacher Tami was in the office as he did, and emailed us with this (used with her permission):

What a hoot! Jon put on quite the performance!

At the end of announcements came Jon’s big moment and he played it for all that it was worth. He told the entire school 3 or 4 good jokes using Ms. Placey, this year’s teacher, as his “straight man”. His “timing” was perfect, and his inflection, masterful! I especially loved it when he laughed at his own jokes.

I think the favourite one was about the attorney (he said attorney and Ms Placey said lawyer) where it went something like “What did the lady attorney call her daughter?” to which his teacher replied “I don’t know. What did the lawyer call her daughter?” With a huge grin, Jon said “Sue!” and then laughed out loud for a few seconds before snorting “Ha, Sue! That’s funny!” Then he sat up very straight in his chair, looked around at everyone with a beautiful smile on his face and declared “I did a very good job giving announcements today! Have a nice Day!”

My heart swelled and I got all “misty”. I couldn’t have been more proud of him if he was my own! Way to go Jon!

Thanks Tami!