Disney School Day 5 - Dumbo

So today we focused our attention onto the circus!  Yes, it was Dumbo Day here at our house.  I think the kids had a lot of fun with this one.

We started as usual with math sheets from school.  There are so many fun activities that you can come up with though. I would definitely suggest addition problems with jugglers, division with magicians, and any number of counting exercises with animals and acts.

Our video for today was a documentary of the circus.  I wanted to watch something on the history of the circus, but I wasn't having much luck on Youtube.  The documentary we watched was okay, but nothing really great, so I'm not going to leave a link today.  I think you'd be better off just watching videos of the circus.  The kids would like it much more. 

We were all ready to do something fun, so we changed to science.  Of course, with a circus theme, we tested the science behind tight rope walkers in this fun center of gravity experiment. 

https://www.rookieparenting.com/can-you-balance-a-craft-stick-on-a-chopstick-science-experiment/

It really does work well.  The kids were very quick to understand why the craft stick was able to balance after the weights were attached.  We didn't get a chance to follow it up, but if you have the means, have your kids try to walk across a board or line with weights in each hand and see if they can feel the difference. 

Our craft today was to make a circus car.  I got the idea from this site.

https://www.firstpalette.com/craft/circus-train.html

Both cars came out really cute.  The kids had a great time decorating their cars and their animals.

We took a break for lunch and then watched the movie.  We followed this up with some spelling and English pages from our workbooks.

Our last activity was creative writing.  Today's prompt was, "Describe what act you would perform in the circus, and explain why you would want to do that act."  My son came up with walking a tightrope over top a cage of lions.  My daughter wanted to do a dolphin act.  I think creative writing has become my favorite activity.  I love reading what they think. 

Well, this sums up our Dumbo day!  I hope you had fun following along.  Tune in tomorrow as we dive into the world of Cinderella.