Charlie the Unicorn

Have you ever wondered what children find amusing? Watching an episode of SpongeBob will answer that question pretty well as will this YouTube video. As I get ready to teach another week of Summer Camp I thought I'd share this amusing tidbit from the previous week of teaching. I had 5th and 6th graders so ages 9-11. They were a great group of campers and we had an awesome week. Every once in awhile, I'd catch one of them saying "Charlie, Charlie..." in a wispy sort of voice and then the other kids would start laughing. I finally asked one of the kids about it and they said it was a really stupid YouTube video. After I got over the initial shock that 9-11 year olds are visiting YouTube - not that it's a bad thing, it just never occurred to me that there would be any reason for them to - I asked for details. My Junior Volunteer explained it in a little more detail and I figured I was going to have to check it out at some point. A video that 9-11 year olds think is really stupid, but funny enough that they all remember it must be viewed. I finally had a chance to check it out. It turns out that there are now three Charlie the Unicorn videos. All strange, silly, and poorly animated. Of course I'm going to share. Here's the first in the series - all kinds of wrong.