Labor Day Project

Labor Day is celebrated almost all over the world. On May 1st, workers and their representatives gather to commemorate the date chosen to remember the arrest, death and violence with which the police attacked hundreds of workers in the city of Chicago, United States on May 1, 1886.

Poems:

a toy i like

It's playing work,

Do you think I bet,

That this is not playing!

Without us realizing it,

go playing and learning.

With toys to make,

Useful things I'm doing.

I already made my bookcase,

A foot clean also did.

I've been playing a lot,

But working… who says?

Renato Seneca

LABOR DAY

I am short,

I want to study,

when grow up,

I am going to work.

I want to be a doctor,

sick I will cure,

I want to be a teacher,

for kids to teach.

I will be an aviator,

through the air I will fly,

I will be a driver,

passengers I will take.

I bricklayer,

I engineer,

electrician, plumber.

I painter, I carpenter,

the house is exquisite.

Look at the farmer here,

the plantation owner.

Here I am the creator,

I will take care of creation.

The employee is helpful:

The fireman, the jailer;

In the city it is necessary,

be it the garbage man or the postman.

And let's toast the worker,

who knows how to work with faith and with love!

(Unknown author)

Activity suggestions:

imitating professions
• In a conversation, use mime to sing the song or read the verses. They change the name of the professions and make gestures as they sing.

• Comment on each character in the songs, presenting the name of the profession.

• Survey students' prior knowledge by asking: What does it do? Where do you work? What do you use in your work?

• List the names of the professions on the board or on brown paper by doing a group search with pictures of the professionals.

• Ask students to draw a picture of their favorite profession.

LET'S SING?

(Give wings to gestures!!!)
Pass, pass hawk, Everyone is good!
The seamstress does this, The seamstress does this,
So, so, so, so!

Pass, pass hawk, Everyone is good!

The driver does it like this, The driver does it like this,
So, so, so, so!
Pass, pass hawk, Everyone is good!
The teacher does it like this, The teacher does it like this,

So, so, so, so!
(Keep singing: doctor, pilot, dentist, etc.)

book of professions

In a round of conversation, ask students what their parents' profession is. Write on the board in capital letters.

Comment with the class about each professional: What does he do? Where do you work? What do you use in your work?

Ask what other professions they are familiar with and explain how each one contributes to life in society.

Work on the sense of usefulness of professions and personal satisfaction at work, as a value.

Afterwards, prepare the Book of Professions with the students so that they can register through drawings or words, the professions of their parents, the ones they like the most and the others, with their objects and tools main. If necessary, the teacher can act as the students' scribe.

Just kidding – Guess who it is?

Sitting in a circle, motivate students to play. The teacher says: “I'm thinking of someone who bakes bread”. Students try to guess and say the name of the profession. When someone gets it right, the teacher must write on the blackboard/board the name of the profession, in capital letters. (The game continues, with the next student in the circle.)

Suggestions – Who is it?

Put out the fire; sells newspaper; works at the fair; paint houses; repair shoes; takes care of the sick; makes food; teaches children, etc.

Working with Elementary School...

Holding a debate!

Discuss the issue of child labor with your students.

Ask students if they know of any working children.

Whether she studies too or just works.

Ask them what they think is right: work or study?

(can also be used with early childhood education)

Objective:

§ Working the sense of usefulness of professions and personal satisfaction at work, as a value.

Other Suggestions:

• Use poems and texts to make students reflect on the importance of work in social life.

• Promote child labor research and programs to eradicate this practice.

To emphasize the date:

• Students will be able to leave the day before the date with a visor, where it will be written: I want to be… And next to it a button or engraving of the profession you want.

• The boys will be able to leave with a brown suitcase and tie, made of cardboard. On the briefcase it must be written: May 1st, Worker's Day.

• The girls will be able to go out with a bag, where the date identification must be written.

• Another suggestion is that students come out with a pencil with the tip of the profession they want to be. The idea could also be replaced by a stick puppet.

Child Labor - INFORMATION TEXT

In Brazil, the Federal Constitution and the Child and Adolescent Statute (ECA) prohibit child labor. But, unfortunately, there are 2.9 million children between the ages of 5 and 14 who are employed in plantations, charcoal works, potteries, quarries, informal markets and domestic activities.

Girls represent a third of this number. And more than 50% of these minors do not receive any kind of remuneration.

Information produced by the 1999 National Household Sample Survey (PNAD) reveals that the child labor is more concentrated in small family businesses, especially in the sector agricultural.

In 1999, the agricultural activity accounted for 80.4% of employed children between 5 and 9 years of age and 63.2% of those employed between 10 and 14 years of age. From 1995 to 1999, according to the survey, the proportion of employed children in the contingent from 5 to 14 years of age increased from 14.5% to 11.8% among boys and from 7.8% to 6.0% among the girls.

Source: PNAD / Ministry of Labor