Indian Day Project for Early Childhood Education and Initial Series

We selected in this post several suggestions for your Indian Day Project for Early Childhood Education. Indian Day is celebrated annually on April 19th.

O Indian's day is celebrated annually in April 19th in Brazil. This important date serves to remember and reinforce the identity of the Brazilian and American indigenous people in current history and culture.

During Indian Day, schools and other cultural and educational institutions encourage children and young people to learn about the different cultural practices of indigenous peoples.

And it was with this in mind that we selected these wonderful suggestions for your Indian Day Project for Early Childhood Education, check out:

Indian Day Project for Early Childhood Education

This one Indian Day Project for Early Childhood Education lasts approximately 1 week:

Goals:

• Know the stories of Brazilian Indians;
• Knowing how to identify indigenous customs;
• Knowing how to cite the influences of the Indians in our culture;
• Report how the Indians live in Brazil lately;
• Mention what FUNAI is and what the objective is.

Project development:

• Informative reading about the Indians;
• Text reading on the indigenous theme;
• Hunting words;
• Crusades;
• Indian Day Masks Making;
• Making of adornments;
• Hangman Games and Letters Salad with indigenous themes;
• Making of Murals and Panels;
• Songs about the theme;
• Research and debate on Indians in Brazil.

Activity Sequence:

• Indian Day Activities for Elementary School
• Indian Day Activities
• Indian Day Activities for Early Childhood Education
• Indian Day Activities

Culmination:

• Exhibition of work done by students.

Indian Day Project for Early Childhood Education to print

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Indian Day Project for Early Childhood Education – Indian

According to the PCN's, it is necessary for the student to know and value the plurality of Brazilian sociocultural heritage, as well as sociocultural aspects of other peoples and nations, taking a stand against any discrimination based on cultural, social class, belief, sex, ethnic or other individual characteristics and social.

The Indian Day is a rescue of our history and our roots. The theme gives the student the opportunity to perceive themselves in other social groups, helping them to build their identity, in acting as the other group in social life, in the preservation of the environment in which they live and in the construction of values.

GOALS:

• Know a little about the history of the Indians.
• Reflect and value the cultural plurality that exists in Brazil.
• Knowing, analyzing and debating the habits and customs of indigenous peoples;
• Encourage the celebration of the Indian's day;
• Stimulate creativity.

DEVELOPMENT:

• To start, the teacher will take an Indian doll to the room, explain where she lives, tell her name and tell the children that they will be able to take the girl home and tell the family all about her, register the visit through drawing or Photograph.
• Use the map to show children where there are more indigenous peoples in Brazil:
  How does the forest Indian live? How is this Indian's house? What do they eat in the forest? What is the most used means of transport? Do they wear clothes?
• Of course, the Indians we see on the streets these days wear clothes, some buy their food. But how do Brazilian forest Indians live? What do they feed on?
• Have a picnic with the healthy food – fruit gang!
• In the image above, the teacher decorated it with banana leaves, it was very beautiful!
• Making an Indian with a pet bottle and also your utensils such as bow and arrow:
• Let's make an Indian with creative role – make up, hair and clothes if you wish….
• Where they live? Where do they sleep? How is the dwelling of the forest Indian? Make a cardboard hollow with the children:
• Each friend will make their oca using collage and lots of creativity:
• Body and face paintings and decorations - Making headdress using paper - follow the step by step:
• Art – Let's use clay to make pots or pans:
• The Indian who lives in the forest does not have a pharmacy… how do they take care of the sick? Let's learn what Medicinal Herbs are.
• Indian with a pet bottle – Each friend will make the face and face painting and headdress:
• Let's sing??? Using finger puppets, let's sing the Song: Little Indians:
• Mathematics – Let's count?? Music: Indians!
• If I were an Indian…. Paint your face in the photo, put on your headdress, everything just your way!
• Let's sing and dance – Make musical instrument – ​​rattle with recycled material – Follow the step by step:
• Indian with folding and canoe with popsicle stick:
• Research – Homework – Everything about the Brazilian Indian!
• It is part of the indigenous culture of Brazil to paint the body, decorate the body and wear necklaces, let's make pasta necklace:

Others in: Lesson Plan - Music for the Indian Day

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Indian Day Project for Kindergarten and Elementary Education

This Indian Day Project for Early Childhood Education, which we will make available below, was prepared by teacher Valéria Tavares and belongs to her wonderful blog: www.ensinandocomcarinho.com.br

The commemorative dates must be worked interdisciplinary in class. The Indian's Day is a special date that is always widely explored among children, making them know and value the plurality of Brazilian sociocultural heritage, in addition to cultural differences, the different peoples. Working the day of the Indian is to rescue our history and our roots. The project helps students to understand and build their identity and perceive themselves as an integral part of a society full of unique characteristics, values ​​and cultures.

Main goal:

• Appreciate and learn about the history of the Indians, as well as their culture and teachings.

Specific objectives

• Know the habits, customs and way of life of the Indians;
• Raise awareness of the importance and respect for the contribution of Indians to society;
• Stimulate children's imagination and creativity;
• Make the learning process enjoyable during project development, through art, dance and environmental preservation.

Awareness:

• Welcome with a conversation circle about the Indians;
• Presentation of videos about culture, dances, housing, indigenous music, etc.
• Presentation and dance of the song CURUMIM EI, EI

Development:

• Storytelling about the Indians;
• Exhibition of typical Indian food;
• Research on the games created by the Indians;
• Listening to songs representing the Indians;
• Making of a mural by the gang;
• Free drawings about the Indians;
• Assembly of the Oca in the classroom;
• Painting on children's faces;
• Making of masks for dramatizations;
• Diverse activities on the theme with: cutouts, collages and assemblies with objects;
• Manufacture of Indian accessories (headdress and rattle);
• Making party favors for the class;

Assessment:

• The assessment will be analyzed through the participation of children, as well as their artistic productions and resourcefulness in the classroom.

Others in: Gift Ideas and Templates for the Indian Day

Suggestions of Stories to work the Indian Day Project for Kindergarten and Elementary Education

More in: Activities for the Indian Day – 1st and 2nd year

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Indian Day Project for Early Childhood Education and Initial Series

General objectives:

• Socialization – stimulating relationships of fellowship, friendship and cooperation;
• Encourage orality using books, music and audiovisual – understanding and interpreting stories, singing songs;
• Recognize the rhythm in music;
• Stimulate body language and expression – dances and imitations;
• Stimulate the appreciation and appreciation of handcrafted objects.
• Encourage the practice of motor coordination in different cutting, collage and painting activities;
• Recognize sizes – large/small, larger/smaller,;
• Recognize quantity – plus/minus;
• Recognize colors;
• Distinguish shapes and images – same/different;
• Distinguish the physical characteristics of men and women;
• Differentiate landscapes – natural and modified.
• Specific objectives:
• Knowing and valuing indigenous culture – habits, customs and arts;
• Recognize indigenous culture as an integral part of our culture;
• Valuing the racial diversity of the Brazilian people and promoting respect for racial and cultural differences;
• Knowing and valuing the contact and the relationship of respect for Nature, typical of the indigenous culture, encouraging preservation of the environment;
• Valuing the wisdom of the elderly in the transmission of knowledge through orality;
• Make the learning process in the school environment enjoyable.

Development with the class

• To facilitate understanding, I divided, so to speak, the project into three axes (used media): Text, Audiovisual and Music.

Text:

• Queno-Curumim, by José Américo de Lima

Objective: Work on the relationship of respect and preservation that indigenous people have with nature.

Activities: Reading to the class and then interpreting; ask the children to retell the story

•  Abridged version (made for the group) of the novels O Guarani e Iracema, by José de Alencar

Objective: Working on the physical characteristics of the indigenous characters in these works: Peri and Iracema – male and female.

Activities: Collectively make our Peri and Iracema using students as a mold – cutting, collage and painting.

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audio Visual:

• Animated short film Ilya and the fire, by Caetano Curi

Objective: To work valuing the wisdom of the elderly in the transmission of knowledge through orality – an indigenous legend that tells of the acquisition of fire by man.

Activities: Watch the video making comments/questions relevant to the story. Conduct the interpretation of the story. Ask students to retell the story.

• Animated short film playing in the village, by Animazul (2006)

Objective: Work on the characteristics of a village and indigenous customs.

Activities: Watch the video making comments and questions relevant to the story. Ask students to recount the story by dramatizing some scenes.

Get to know CUITÉ and collectively manufacture our cuité gourds.

• ►Video clip indians, from the DVD “A Galinha Pintadinha”

Objective: Working body, movement, language and quantity.

Activities: Dance and sing. Pay attention to the animation of the clip – more/less Indians in the canoe.

• Musical audio with images of Brazilian Indians in their natural habitat Amazon – Indians of Brazil, posted on the YouTube channel Mundiverso

Objective: Working on the characteristics, clothing and habitat of indigenous peoples through images of Brazilian Indians.

Activities: Get to know the real image of Brazilian Indians, identify elements that make up their natural habitat, their objects and clothing. Observe the physical characteristics of these Indians.

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Songs:

• Chegança, by Antônio Nóbrega (album “Pernambuco Falando para o mundo”, 1998);
• Mestre Guia, by Mestre Ambrósio (album “Terceiro samba”, 2001);
• Espírito da Mata, by Mestre Ambrósio (album “Terceiro samba”, 2001);
• Vó cabocla, by Mestre Ambrósio (album “Fuá na casa de Cabral”, 2000).

Objective: Working body, movement and language – dancing and singing. Relaxation. Identify some instruments in music. Recognize the rhythm of the music. Knowing and the indigenous instrument Pau-de-chuva.

Activities: Lie down, close your eyes and listen to the music. Imagine scenes relating to indigenous everyday life. Follow the rhythm of the music with your palms and feet. Knowing, listening to and handling the Pau-de-chuva. Get to know a sound close to that of indigenous music.