The Snail Family at the Greatest Show on Earth. Do you notice that Little Snail is just about as tall as her brother? She is in the 99th percentile for height. She is a giant!
We have been learning about the circus for the last couple of months. We began our unit with questions asked by Big Snail:
- Who is in the circus?
- What do people in the circus do?
- What do animals in the circus do?
- What tricks do clowns do in a circus?
The Snail's Trail: All About the Circus
We pretended to be a clown with a clown mask
We made a clown wig out of paper mache and ribbons
We practiced circus skills to circus music
We made a dictionary of circus related words to use in our story writings
We went to the circus!
This is one of their trailers.
Big Snail jumped rope for the very first time in his life! Definitely a moment to remember forever! He also got to be a trapeze artist. This really made his day!
We made a book about the circus
We read books about the circus
We learned clown tricks from CircusFit
We watched some short little circus movies: Clifford at the Circus and Kid Songs: Circus
We listened to Tom and Jerry at the circus, Dumbo, Leoncavallo's Pagliacci, and Bozo at the Circus
We watched some experiments on tight rope walking
We will continue to learn about the circus, primarily through dramatic play (or "pretend play"), until The Snails are tired of the topic. When they are older, we will visit the circus again and learn about the physics of the circus and the ethical treatment of animals that perform in a circus.
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Wow! That's really awesome! You guys sure did a lot of circus related stuff! LOVE the clown wig, that turned out super cute! :)
What a great unit! Your glasses look a lot like mine, just to let you know. :)
This is da Bomb!! Exactly what I love about home school. Yesterday, after we listened to Peter and the Wolf, my kids spent the rest of the afternoon making lassos and now want to learn everything there is about rodeos!! :D
We're heading to the circus this summer--cannot wait to get started on these projects!!
What an awesome unit study! Little Snail looked ecstatic to be at the circus!! Thanks for the inspiration.
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What an amazing unit study. I love it, and those masks are soooo cool.
What a wonderful time you had.
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What a wonderful extensive range of circus activites. How fun!
Wonderful unit with so many wonderful activites. It's great you even got to go to the circus and your little one was able to participate in so many activities.
This is sooo totally cute! Great ideas!! You have very lucky kids.
Looks like so much fun and so many memories!
Hi Momma Snail. I think this is great! I am not sure how I found your blog I think I was just looking for Halloween images for face painting and came across it but I am glad I did! I think you and your ideas are fabulous! I will be using many of them with my 3 year old daughter and hopefully with my 4 month old some day!
Anyway, before I became a stay at home mom I taught art at a public elem. school. I love that you did a unit on the circus! When I did one, we looked at work by Alexander Calder, both his mobiles and the circus installations. We made circus mobiles by creating little circus figures out of pipe cleaners. We talked about what each persons talents were as well. They are fun and colorful and are great for creating lines and movement (I wish I had a pic). Kids had fun trying to figure out how to make them balance. I did this with 3rd grade but with a little guidance and one on one you could do something similar.
Another fun idea that I am planning to do in both my daughter's rooms (instead of painting a mural because I can't decide on anything!) is painting a grouping of picture frames (some can even be real) from very simple to pretty fancy. I then plan on painting the inside of the frames with magnetic paint found at the hardware stores. I will probably use different standard paper sizes so that I can showcase some of their artwork and change it out! :O)
oops! Sorry about the crazy long comment! I forgot to mention another really great circus book is Olivia Saves the Circus by Ian Falconer. All of the Olivia books are my favorites!
Rosa
What a fun unit study!
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I grew up doing the Ringly Brothers Circus every year! Loved it thanks for posting!
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