The Circus and Sweets Candy!

The circus is in town!  And, made a special visit to our school.

Our week was full of clowns, juggling, balloons, popcorn, elephants and more!

We still did a lot of learning this week too!  Check it out:

For our literacy center, we had elephants on the tightrope! Each elephant had a letter of the alphabet on his belly and the children were challenged to balance the whole alphabet on the tightrope in alphabetical order.

For a math center, the children were able to visit the legendary McDonald's restaurant for some nuggets and fries.

Each nugget and fry container was numbered from 1-10 and the kids were instucted to put that many nuggets or fries into the container. They enjoyed doing this and serving to their friends.

For a sorting center, we sorted clowns by their size and color.

The children could sort them f rom big to small in the same color, just by color, or just by size.

And, for some dramatic play, we had popcorn, balloon animals, and juggling!

I borrowed the popcorn machine from a friend, and boy did the children love it!  They got so excited when the popcorn started popping.  They were giddy!

They did a great job at making balloon art.  We had animals, swords, flowers, and more.

We all attempted to juggle. Not many of us could do it (those clowns are amazing) but we never gave up!

For our song this week we sang Popcorn Popping on the Apricot Tree.

Our star of the week this week was:

Maxx! He loves the outdoors and has some great pets, including a turtle!

We also had the opportunity to visit the Sweet's Candy Factory this week!

Thank you to all you parents for your support and help with these field-trips. I literally could not do it without you. We had a great time on our 40 minute tour through the factory where we learned interesting facts! Did you know it takes 7 days to make a jelly bean? And, they made over 6 million pounds of taffy just for Wal-mart for the Easter holiday! Of course, you get to taste test along the way.....YUM!  Thanks

Sweet's Candy for a great visit!