My fourth and fifth grade love group lessons. This is a great lesson on Alexander Calder, I used the book "Sandy's Circus" as a motivator. My classroom has six tables so each table was considered a group, each group was given a large brightly colored circle or "ring". The rest is up to the students to figure out how to create a circus out of various materials. I made sure there was plenty of materials such as cardboard tubes,pipe cleaners, wiggly eyes, wood bits, wire, etc. After the initial "storming" of ideas, the children used their imaginations and ingenuity to create fanciful circus creations. We displayed our circus at our public library and other community art exhibits...they were a hit!!
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