I need to make a brainstorming flowchart of ideas for the theme CIRCUS?

Question

any ideas?? im stumped

Answer 1

Hello! I actually just finished up my two week unit on Circus. The children had a blast. First of all we created a huge clown and made a bulletin board our of it and called it, "clowning around"...They made balloons (where they used water colors to paint them and then we glued pictures of them during the outside obstacle course). The course was a circus theme with silly things they had to do (like jump the swings and run and touch the monkey bars, ect..). Anyhow, they created clown masks and circus bears and elephant ears.  We had a peanut hunt outside and read lots of great books like Clifford at the Circus and Curious Geoge at the Circus. Have FUN!

Answer 2

Are you planning on doing this activity with the children, or are you using a flowchart to help you plan things to do with your class?  Because I've never done a flowchart with preschoolers; we do word webs--it's more on their level.  For a word web, you would put the word circus in a circle in the middle and have lines come off the circle.  The preschoolers would tell you words that go with circus and you fill in the lines.  You could do this at anytime: in the beginning of the unit to gauge how much they know, during the unit to see how much they are retaining, or at the end of the unit to see what they've learned.

I'm not even sure how a theme of circus would lend itself to a flowchart.  Obviously, circus would be in the middle oval.  Coming off it could be things like: Entertainers--acrobats, barkers, clowns, ringmaster, tightrope walkers.  Workers: ticket takers, food sellers, animal trainers/minders, maintanence people.  Animals: dogs, seals, elephants, horses, lions, tigers.  Food: cotton candy, popcorn, soda, hotdogs, pretzels, snowcones, funnel cakes.