Carnival Class Plan for Kindergarten and Elementary Education

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Carnival Lesson Plan.

When we think of Brazil or the Brazilian people, the image of a happy and dancing people almost always comes to us. Carnival is a great example of this. It is a popular manifestation that occurs in different ways in various regions of Brazil, depending on the historical and sociocultural context of each place.

Interweaving the influences of black Africans, indigenous peoples, natives and colonizing Europeans, Brazilian culture resulted in a great diversity and richness of manifestations.

JUSTIFICATION

Brazil is a culturally rich country, however, what we know about this culture is limited to what we live in daily life and what the TV often shows us loose information, images that are very far from our reality or imprint commercial.

Thinking about it, we intend, in this Carnival Lesson Plan, provide activities that broaden children's knowledge about carnival in Brazil, taking into account their influences and making a temporal parallel from the old carnivals to today.

GENERAL OBJECTIVES

• Know the cultural aspects of carnival that influenced the Brazilian ethnicity.
• Recognize the carnival manifestations within the social context.
• Know the carnival marchinhas.
• Know, observe and follow the evolution of carnival genres such as: music, blocks, costumes and stories.
• Establish a relationship between the past and the modern.

Methodological procedures

• Make a carnival ball so that children can get to know a little about this popular manifestation.
• Bring the elements of carnival to the classroom through images or objects.
• Play songs relevant to the carnival universe.
• Make face paintings on the children and provide different clothes and props for them to use as costumes.

DEVELOPED ACTIVITIES

• Panel making with carnival cutouts and photos.
• Work carnival music
• Making carnival masks with scrap material.
• List the costumes that people usually wear in carnival.
• Skip carnival using different clothes and accessories as a costume.

CULMINANCE

• Costume parade.
• Exhibition of panels.
• Carnival ball.

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Carnival Class Plan for Early Childhood Education

Goals:

• Recognize the Brazilian Carnival as the biggest folk festival in the world.
• Know the history of carnival in Brazil and its characteristics.
• Collect data about carnival in Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo and other states.
• Make students aware that it is necessary not to confuse fun with confusion.

School:

• Adopt precautionary measures against drugs and sexual abuse of minors.

Development of the Carnival Class Plan

First moment:

• Research about the history of carnival in Brazil.
• Create a mural with carnival prints.
• Listening to carnival music, singing, making copies, sayings and other activities using the lyrics of the songs heard.

Teacher,
As our space is limited, you are only receiving part of the project. The other activities must be created according to the context where you and your students are inserted.

Second Moment:

• Decorate the classroom or hall where the carnival will take place.
• Use streamers, confetti, masks, glossy papers, etc.
• For decoration make mobiles with CDs (those that are scratched and cannot be used).

Third Moment:

• Make masks, hats and other accessories to participate in the party.
  Arrange the blocks according to the costumes (kittens, bunnies, animals, clowns, etc).

Fourth Moment:

• Do a rehearsal for the carnival (current or old songs).
• Make carnival drawings to decorate the classroom.

Fifth Moment:

• Culmination and evaluation.
• Carnival Ball.
• Choose the best Carnival Block.
• Choose the Girl and the Folia Boy.
• Delivery of sashes, medals and trophies to the winners.

Attachments: Carnival marches to print

Also see:

• Elementary School Carnival Project
• Children's Education Carnival Project

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Carnival Class Plan - SOCIALIZATION

GOALS

• Identify your name, to identify your presence at the service;
• Develop perception through the letters that make up your name;
• Develop fine motor coordination;
• Provide conditions for the development of creativity and artistic expression;

ACTIVITY SUGGESTIONS

Children's music - singing

Tale - the chess cat

Activity – production of masks for carnival

• painting

• clipping

video – unidos do cocoricó – marchinhas

Dance – Carnival marches

MATERIALS 

• Badges, mobile alphabet, whiteboard, pilot, mimeographed activity (A4 paper, printer, computer, scanner), colored pencils, scissors, rubber band, television, DVD player, video.

ASSESSMENT

Through individual and collective observations of involvement in proposed activities and fellowship among others.

Printable Carnival Lesson Plan for Early Childhood Education

Also check: Carnival masks to print and color

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School Carnival Lesson Plan

Carnival is considered one of the liveliest and most representative popular festivals in the world. It has its origins in the Portuguese Shrovetide, where, in the past, people threw water, eggs and flour at each other. Shrovetide took place in a period before Lent and, therefore, had a meaning linked to freedom. This sense remains to this day in carnival.

Main goal:

• Recognize carnival as a manifestation of Brazilian culture, rescuing traditions and awakening their interest in carnival celebrations.

Specific objectives:

• Identify carnival songs;
• Singing and dancing carnival marchinhas and other rhythms;
• Working memory and reasoning;
• Develop perception, motor coordination and imagination;
• Promote the socialization of students;
• Make children aware that fun should not be confused with confusion;
• Develop the creative spirit;
• Stimulate body rhythm and expression;
• Awaken and educate attention and observation;
• Provide freedom of self-expression;

Development:

• Know the history of carnival, and its various ways to celebrate it (the blocks, dances, street, costume contest, samba school parades).
• Dance with students to different rhythms (Frevo / Axé / Marchinhas);
• Elaborate a panel with carnival figures;
• Make a mask and decorate it with different materials, to use at the school party;
• Present old carnival marches to students;
• Build materials to decorate the school;
• Promote the Carnival Ball at school.

Material resources

• CDs of different carnival rhythms;
• Stereo;
• Colored cardboard paper;
• colored EVA;
• Colored glitter glue;
• Colored sequins;
• Scissors;
• Pencil.

Assessment:

It will be done daily during the project, through the observation of interest and participation in the proposed activities with responsibility, creativity, attention and dynamism.

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Carnival Lesson Plan - The History of Carnival

Reception, breakfast, call with name tags, calendar and time, educational activity, lunch, oral hygiene and rest.

Contents

• Literature
• storytelling
• Stories appreciation
• time sequence
• Musical Appreciation
• Exploration of artistic materials and techniques
• Collage
• Representation through drawing, painting, modeling
• body rhythm

axes

• Oral and written language
• Song
• Math
• Movement
• visual arts

Goals

• Participate in reading situations;
• Use and know the calendar as a way of marking time.
• Follow the music by singing and improvising;
• Listen carefully to music in varied rhythms;
• Handle paint, plasticine and other materials with different textures, consistencies and temperatures;
• Produce graphic representations using various techniques and materials.
• Develop fine motor skills and creativity.
• Realize the rhythmic expressiveness through songs, dances and games.

Procedures

We will tell the story of the Carnival from the collection “Did you know?” by Maurício de Sousa, we will talk about the knowledge that children already have about the Subject, we will mark the date of the upcoming Carnival on the calendar and place the children on the masked ball that will take place on February 28th at CMEI Children will receive Carnival masks previously made by the teachers so that they can decorate them with glitter glue, sequins, decorated paper, among others. Afterwards we will listen and dance to carnival songs.

Resources

• EVA masks, lastex, book, CD, sequins, glitter glue, radio, decorated papers.

Assessment

We will see if the children will participate in reading situations, in making masks and in listening and dancing to the songs.

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