kindergarten
Kindergarten
The circus - an educational outing. . .
Introduction :
The circus arouses great fascination in children.
It arouses different feelings:
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cheerfulness in the music, the light, the costumes
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the tenderness and friendship between trainers and animals
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the feeling of flying with trapeze artists or skill with jugglers
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wonder at the magician's tricks
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laughter with the clowns, their quarrels and their pranks
Under the marquee whose circle evokes conviviality, children can dream and marvel thanks to the remarkable work of the artists
Before leaving:
This educational outing will be prepared in advance => impregnation on the theme
(readings-slides-films-posters-vocabulary-space/time
The exit :
Where is the circus set up? identify different elements:
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the big top for the show
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the trucks to transport the equipment
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the caravans
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animals
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the artists
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the staff who work there
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the ticket office, the queue
The circus acts, the program
After leaving:
Output exploitation:
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written production (dictated to the adult) - captioned drawing
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acrosport - body expression
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Plastic arts - music
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etc...
The circus - school and cinema: Charlie Chaplin
Before the screening
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Discover the 1970 poster
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Know the cultural referents
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Watch a clip from the film - defining burlesque
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Circus professions
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The circus in Art (Seurat, Chagall...)
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After the screening
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Telling (evocation language)
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Draw Charlot
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Go back to the movie poster: What is the Tramp looking through the hole?
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Timeline (reordering of film frames)
The circus - Educational exploitation ...
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Literature - Reading images:
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Themed Albums, Stories and Magazines
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Documentary: the circus
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study of the album Bénépate (ed not scale)
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Show posters, posters, movie poster
Oral language:
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Acquire vocabulary on the theme (tent-track-spectators-jugglers-tamers-...
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List the questions that students have about the circus, look for answers in books and on the way to the show
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Poems (the clown-Like on parade...)
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Evocation language: recounting an outing
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Dictation to the adult (keep track in the life book)
Written production :
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Make a poster to inform parents of the outing
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To remember (memory evocation):
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Math :
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progression adapted to the theme
The circus
live performance
Audiovisual:
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Movie: Chaplin's Circus
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circus show recording
living world:
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Discover animals that have been used in circuses (use)
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then these same animals in their natural environment
Body language :
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Dance, mime, juggling
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Acrosport: balance, postures, cooperation
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facial expressions
Space-time :
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Locate the date of the show on the class calendar (timekeeping)
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Chronology: (from release-from featured issues)
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The capital: a special place (vocabulary-topology-way of life)
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Arrangement to delimit the space (marquee-trucks-caravans)
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the circus of yesteryear/the circus of our days
Become a student:
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Control of road education concepts for an outdoor outing
Musical Education :
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Audition of circus music, the walkers (Bécaud), the clown is dying (Moouloudji)
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The Circus Orchestra
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Percussion
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Rhymes and songs: I have a big red nose...
Plastic arts:
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Study of paintings (see the circus in art)
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Creation of masks, disguises
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The clown portrait (facial expressions)
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The unstructured portrait
Language mastery
Vocabulary :
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circus professions
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clothes and accessories
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animals
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places
the marquee - the circus - the ring - the spectators - the director - Monsieur Loyal - the orchestra - the drum - the juggler - the horsewoman - the tamer - the clowns - the white clown - the august - the magician - . ...
Rhymes, songs and poems:
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Like on parade - Marie Litra
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The Clown - Topor
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The Clown (vocals)
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Clown-Soprano (YT video link)to be used in PE (dance-choreographic creation)
Written production
Sheets on the theme
Lea at the circus
A short story to tell from the magazine La Classe Maternelle n°165 01/2008
BENEPATE
Part 1 : Reading - comprehension (beginning -> didn't belong among the turnips)
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Whose story is this? (clear the main character)
A: Bénépate, a little mole
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Where does she live ?
A: at the bottom of the vegetable garden
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Uncover the problem:
What does she do all day?
What does the gardener think?
Who is not happy too?
A: Hubert, the earthworm - Edmond, the lazy hedgehog - Lucette, the flirtatious bee
=> The inhabitants of the vegetable garden were getting tired of it!
=> They want her gone
=> The little mole thinks they are right
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Imagine what's next
Part 2 : Reading - comprehension (-> nor in the beautiful tree-lined garden... where to go?)
Bénépate leaves the vegetable garden.
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Who helps Bénépate to find a place?
the gardener's cat
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Where to go? Imagine the rest
Part 3 : Reading - comprehension (-> end)
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Reminder: characters, places (vegetable garden, meadow)
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Problem :
She loves jumping, doing acrobatics.
The animals in the vegetable garden hunt.
The cow drives it out of the meadow.
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Reading part 3
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The resolution: The Centipede Circus.
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You will be a tightrope walker like dad!
(Some parts concern late CP / CE1)
Discovery of the 1st cover
Objective :Get the students to interpret the illustrations and the title of the album
to make assumptions about its content
I. In groups of 2(one photocopy of the cover per group)
Silent discovery then ask them to find all they can say
on the album
-> search for as many clues as possible to then develop different
assumptions about the contents of the album.
II. In large group
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Faire préciser : - le titre (Que veut dire funambule ?) _cc781905 -5cde-3194-bb3b-136bad5cf58d_ _cc781905-5cde-3194- bb3b-136bad5cf58d_ _cc781905- 5cde-3194-bb3b-136bad5cf58d_ _cc781905-5cde-3194-bb3b -136bad5cf58d_ _cc781905 -5cde-3194-bb3b-136bad5cf58d_ _cc781905-5cde-3194- bb3b-136bad5cf58d_ _cc781905- 5cde-3194-bb3b-136bad5cf58d_ _cc781905-5cde-3194-bb3b -136bad5cf58d_ _cc781905-5cde -3194-bb3b-136bad5cf58d_
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Take note of all the illustrated elements (characters, objects, places)
Discovery of history
Absence of the mother
Father/son opposition
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the father wants Pepito to be a tightrope walker (tradition)
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the son is afraid and wants to become a musician
Oral and collective reading
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Initial situation(from page 1 to page 6 - Pepito on the wire)
-> search for characters, places
-> highlighting the problem and the characteristics of the characters
-> check understanding, explain difficult words
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The dream(from page 7 to page 10 - they sleep in the trailer)
The image serves as a launcher for a written production = imagine their dreams
_cc781905-5cde-3194 -bb3b-136bad5cf58d_ by drawing - creation of bubbles (comic book approach)
_cc781905-5cde-3194- by text
Highlight concurrency.
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The argument and the fall(from page 11 to page 20) = highlight (trigger)
This part is conducive to a debate and a philosophical workshop session.
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_cc781905-5cde-3194 -bb3b-136bad5cf58d_ _cc781905 -5cde-3194-bb3b-136bad5cf58d_ Do we have the right to oppose the will of our parents?
Emission of hypotheses:
What will Pepito decide? Obey in spite of his fear / continue what he loves?
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The spectacle and reconciliation(from page 21 to the end)
Give your opinion on this album
- I liked it because...... (use the connector)
- I didn't like because..... (use the negative form)
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Extensions
- Thematic network
- Jobs:
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_cc781905-5cde-3194 -bb3b-136bad5cf58d_ - identify the advantages and disadvantages (including uniformed trades)
_cc781905-5cde-3194 -bb3b-136bad5cf58d_ - make a classification: dangerous, dirty jobs, outdoors, in an office....
Express yourself on your projects: Later, I will be ...... because I will have, I will be able, I will win ..... (use the future tense)
- Imagine a sequel (expl: Dad will become a musician and a tightrope walker)
Albums, magazines and documentaries on the subject
The circus in art
Georges Seurat
Fernand LEGER
Pablo Picasso
Marc Chagall
"Monsieur Loyal" by Matisse
Display the reproduction and leave time for observation and free comments.
Then return the painting and give its title (Monsieur Loyal). Explain the role of this character in the circus if you haven't already done so during the screening of the film.
The circles evoke juggling balls (one of the circus professions).
Karel Appel
The Clown Portrait
Bernard Buffett
picasso
The unstructured portrait
picasso
Andy Warhol