- Good morning, my dear sweet, beautiful, brilliant students.

♪ Do you know what today is ♪ ♪ It's our Fun Friday ♪ ♪ Where we can learn anything in any kind of way ♪ ♪ Do you know what today is ♪ ♪ It's our Fun Friday ♪ ♪ Hip hip hooray ♪ (laughter) So before we get started, I just have a few questions for you.

Now go ahead and go grab and put on your thinking cap because these questions are going to be challenging.

Are you ready?

Okay.

Here's question number one.

What did one eye say to the other eye?

Something between us smells.

(laughter) Here's another one.

What is a snake's strongest subject in school?

Hiss-tory.

Ba-da-bing.

(laughter) And finally, what kind of music do mummies, not like your mother, but like mummies like walk like an Egyptian, mummies, listen to?

Wrap music.

(laughter) You get it?

'Cause, you know, wrap.

Okay, anyway, anyway.

Oh, man.

Being here with you today has really reminded me of how much I miss physically being in the classroom with my students.

I start every day by telling them how beautiful and brilliant they are.

Just like, I always greet you.

And then we sing and tell jokes so that we can activate our minds.

(laughter) And did you know that laughing actually makes you smarter and live longer?

It's true.

Laughing doesn't just make you feel happy it actually makes your heart and your lungs and your muscles happy too.

And it increases blood flow and even boost and it improves your immune system.

So laugh and be silly sometimes, your body will thank you later.

Fun Fridays are not just good for singing and laughing, they're also a great day for poetry.

The easiest and most recognizable type of poetry is the couplet.

Greeting cards and songs and children's books, they all use couplets.

A couplet is two lines where the last word rhymes.

And rhymes, as you know, are two words that sound similar like cat and hat.

Can you think of two words that rhyme?

Now that you have your two words in mind, let's put them together to make a couplet.

So if I were to go with my first example, I could say, I know a cat who always wears a hat.

It has cinnamon fur and loves to stretch and purr.

See what I did there?

I actually made two couplets.

"I know a cat who wears a hat" is a one couplet, cat and hat are the last words that rhyme.

"It has cinnamon fur and loves to stretch and purr" is another one.

Fur and purr are the last words that rhyme.

Now you try it with your rhyming words.

To make a whole poem out of couplets you just repeat that process two or three more times.

Once you have mastered the couplet, then learn about other forms of poems.

And if you keep practicing and writing, one day you'll be as good as Amanda Gorman.

She's our first National Youth Poet Laureate, and she got a chance to write and perform a poem in front of the President of the United States.

I'm looking forward to seeing you on the big stage one day.

So get to writing and stay righteous, bye.