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Who Said That?

"I'm hoping people throw popcorn."

-- Kaylee Lovett

For six weeks, clowns from Circus Sarasota taught 90 students their routines during gym class.

The program — which is also taking place at Emma E. Booker Elementary — is paid for by a $10,000 grant through the Roberta Leventhal Sudakoff Foundation.

Through the program, some students learn about inertia and friction from circus acts in their science classes while others read about a young girl performing on the high wire. The Alta-Vista third-graders developed their own circus.

Read more at the Sarasota Herald-Tribune.