![]() ![]() ![]() When a circus shop runs aground off the coast of Maine, all the animals have to swim through the chilly waters until they come upon a nearby island. This book is great for discussion! The Circus Ship by Chris Van Dusen It tells the story of the circus from set up, to show time, to taking it all down and moving on to the next town. My students were mesmerized by this book. ![]() WRITING/ART IDEA: After reading this book, have your students draw or create their own silly circus performer and write about it. This circus has more than a lion tamer and a trapeze artist, it has a wink-hooded Hoodwink and the Spotted Atrocious among other astonishing acts. SeussĪ classic for sure! This is the story of young Morris McGurk’s big circus dreams. WRITING IDEA: After reading this story, have your students write about their own adventure at the circus. But while her classmates are listening to their teacher, Emeline is doing some learning of her own! Emeline’s teacher is quite strict and asks her students to sit still and listen while she shares information with class about what they are seeing. This is the story of young Emeline who visits the circus with her second grade class. Here the are!Įmeline at the Circus by Majorie Priceman I do want to share the books that we used for the unit of study because they too were fantastic. I could write a series of posts on all the things we did including creating our own circus, but will save those ideas for another post. We just finished our circus unit at school and I will tell you it was phenomenal. ![]()
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