Legend of Serra Monchique

Age group 5-6 years old
Art Education: Paper cup for water - origami

Legend of Serra Monchique

Age group 5-6 years old
Science Education
Water experiment

Legend of Serra Monchique

Group age: 5-6 years
Integrated activity
Methods and strategies: quadrant, brainstorming, r.a.i,  aquarium, gallery tour

Activity with Legend of Rocha Beach

TOPIC: Legend of Rocha Beach. Mermaids, sea, fishermen.

AGE OF CHILDREN: 4 years

OBJECTIVES: 

- The child knows the legend of Rocha Beach. 

- The child knows who is mermaid, that she lives in the water and breathes on the land.

- The child knows the differences of the land from the sea, they know who lives in the sea and what grows on the land.

- The child can themselves make a fishing hook from wood stick.

- The child knows who's a fisherman.

TOOLS: The legend of Rocha Beach, an image of mermaid, a large A1 paper, white paper, crayons, fishing hook, wood sticks, string, modeling clay, tack tape.

PREPARATION: Printing out images of mermaid and the legend. Drawing mermaids sitting on the rocks on two A1 papers. On one paper also drawing the waves of the sea and to other land and montains. Tack tape the pictures one on tabel and the other to the other tabel. Also put some crayons beside them. Put ready white note papers and crayons. Also wood sticks, rope, modeling clay. Make one big tabel to everybody can sit around.

ACTIVITY: 

The children have heard the legend of Roch Beach once before. The teacher tells it again and they have a conversation about it. So everybody understands it.

Then teachers shows two big pictures of the mermaid. Now every child has to choos if they want to be the farmer or the fishermen. Some children couldn't decide like the mermaid. But in the end everybody made a choice. Then they had to draw the things that are good on land or in the sea.

Now we make the fishing hook. At first we observe and investigate real fishing hook. Then everybody tries to make one themselves. They had to tie the string to the wood sticks (with little help of teacher and assistant). On the end of the string they made little worm from modelling clay. Then everybody got a piece of paper and they draw fishes on it. And fishing game was ready. They put fishes into a box and started fishing with fishing hook.

 

Outdoor activity with Legend of Rocha Beach

TOPIC: Fairy tales - using Portuguese legend of Rocha Beach 

KID'S AGE: 6-7A 

GOALS: Environment and me, language and speech, movement, art.  

• The child listens to the Portuguese fairy tale "Legend of Rocha Beach." 

• The child is enjoying activity on the beach and in the forest. 

• The child can name a variety of fish species, flowers and various types of fruits. 

• The child embodies different characters (fisherman, farmer, mermaid and fish, fruit, flowers, sand, sea, mountain) and plays through the story of a fairy tale. 

• The child uses natural material at his own discretion. 

TOOLS: 

• Fairy tale "Legend of Rocha Beach." 

• Empty white papers and pencil. 

• All natural materials that attract attention and can be used on the beach or in the woods. 

ACTIVITY: 

• Go to the Pirita beach.

• Listen to the fairy tale. 

• Analyzing fairy tales. 

• Writing the fairy tales characters on the notes and everybody draws one. 

• Embody your character. 

• Discovering riches of the beach and selectively picking them.

• Discovering the riches of the forest and selectively picking them.

• Desired use of natural material. 

Summary: The action turned out to be a fun adventure for a couple of hours on the beach and in the forest. We saved a jellyfish who was stranded on the sand and we also observed very active crow. We walked in wet long grass and compared the aroma of the beach with the scent of a forest. We enjoied becoming the characters and also playing the legend, and just the beauty of being in nature. With the girls we made so-called photo shoot titled - "Autumn decorations in the hair."

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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.