Monday, October 23, 2017

Outdoor activity with Portuguese story

Subject: "Mermaid visited Pirita beach" 
Children ages 6 -7 years

Goals: 
- The child understands that photos can be easily processed (edited)
- The child is able to use place definition words correctly (front, back, right, left, high, low)

Tools: phone / camera; paper; Scissors with jagged edges; glue; brushes; colored sand; seaweed. 

Preparation: Select a place to take a picture; Preparing the tools for processing the image in the classroom. 

Activity: 
The activity starts inside in the classroom. The teacher tells the Portuguese legend of the Rocha Beach to the children. Afterwards they have a conversation and discussion about the story to see if everybody understood it and what they thought of it. Then they have a discussion about what is image editing. Then the teacher gives them the news that: "Today, we are playing the photographers of a society newspaper, who go to Pirita beach to make a photo for the news entitled" Mermaid was seen on Pirita beach "".
Reminde the rules of walking to the beach and back (traffic, safety on the beach, safety vest). 

Walking to the beach. Onsite repeating place definition words through a game. 

Then made group of five children. One teacher took the groups to make pictures. The children had to choose where to make the picture. The teacher gave the rule that on the picture had to be sea and a stone (to which the mermaid could later be added). While some children photographed the sea with one teacher, the rest of the children played different movement games with a second teacher and teacher assistance and built a sandcastles. 

When everyone had photographed, the children picked some seashells and seaweed. And then they returned to kindergarten.

On the following day, the children glued the mermaids tale to the printed photos. Then the pictures were supplemented with seashells and seaweed.






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