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Period 4 - Carnival Project

Interdisciplinary project

 

Project launch

Oral Language and Discovery of the World

 

Identify known festivals

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What is a party?

Look for examples (if necessary show photos - leaf through last year's culture book...)

Describe these festivals...What do they consist of?

        and classify themdepending on when they relate:

  • according to the seasons, the months, to be located in the year

  • put the photos in chronological order

  • locate dates on a calendar

 

Children's responses:

Birthday - Castanyada - Christmas - Tio - Epiphany - Mardi-gras - Candlemas - Valentine's Day

Very often they know how to talk about the party without knowing its name (the pancake party, the galette...)

 

Evoke other festivals

Music Festival (the first day of summer)

July 14 (parade - fireworks)

 

Common point :the social aspect

Holidays call for gatherings

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Prioritize Carnival

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Back to Mardi-gras, disguises, masks.

 

Specify the function of the mask

  • not be recognized

  • to become different from what one is

 

look for examples

(For children, the mask is mainly used to look pretty, so this questioning is important.)

 

Show images of Carnival(photos, videos, magazines,...)

Nice, Venice, Dunkirk, Limoux, Rio, Martinique,...

  • describe them

  • notice the elements of the parade (floats, musicians, big heads, giants, umbrellas...) and the decorations of the city

  • present the image of King Carnival on his float, explain

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Announce the class (school) project

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School carnival project theme  :                     

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Thème choisi par les enfants de la classe :        _cc781905-5cde-3194- bb3b-136bad5cf58d_       

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Procedure:

Parade in front of the parents with the other classes and the CPs

Confetti Battle

Snack with parents

 

Anticipate :     (list the tasks to be considered to carry out this project)

  • Make costumes and masks

  • Create a poster to inform parents

  • Write a letter to the CP to invite them

  • learn a song

  • To make pancakes

  • Ask parents to make cakes and bring fruit juice

  • Provide music for the parade

  • Buy the confetti

 

représentations initiales sur le thème de la fête

Get informed / do research:

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In albums, documentaries,... search images of farm animals

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Find out how to make masks

     -draw, reveal eyes and mouth, attach rubber band and try

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Come up with ideas for the costume

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Imagine what music could accompany our parade

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Carnival poster

Collective discovery:

exploitation of the poster made for the school carnival

  • the children notice that it is a party (typography: word carnival in decorated letters)

  • => a birthday... the circus... Carnival

  • verification of hypotheses (no i in the word; it's not the circus)

  • text reading: decoding and recognition of words/letters/syllables

  • For the moment, we do not know the exact date

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Provisional entry:

In order to specify the exact date

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écriture provisoire affiche carnaval2
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Carnival characters

After observing the poster representing the characters of the Carnival

  • Do you recognize any characters?

if so: ask the children to name him then read the short text providing additional information on the character

if not: point to the clues to recognize it then read the text

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Oral comprehension questions:

  • Who plays the mandolin?Pierrot

  • Who has a crooked nose and a bump in the back?Polichinella (Pucinella)

  • Where do the Gilles parade?in the streets of Binche in Belgium

  • Who has a coat of all colors?Harlequin

  • Who entertains the king?the fool

  • Who has magical powers?the witches

  • What happens to His Carnival Majesty at the end of the party?we judge it and we burn it

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each time ask a student to show the character on the poster

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Reminder of the story of Pierrot and Colombine

because many children do not know it

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Reminder of the story of Harlequin

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Write a letter to the CP to invite them
provisional entry with immediate correction
lettre invitation carnaval GS/CP
lettre invitation carnaval parents
Write a letter to parents
directed writing
plastic arts
Graphics

Cutting/gluing:Realization of carnival characters

use of poster paper and liquid glue for paper

background: poster paper glued on canson format 24x32

carnaval découpage collage fille

Decorative graphics:Realization of a wolf

to decorate the classroom or to wear

use of fine markers - graphics coded

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Shredding/gluing:Making decorative masks

use of wrapping paper

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Cutting/gluing:

use of flyers or catalogs

each child chooses  a color and cuts out the pieces of this color (notion of monochrome)

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carnaval déchiquetage collage

To make a kazoo:

  • decorate according to the model indicated using fine markers

  • cut each vertical strip stopping at the point

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A Harlequin hat to decorate the class:

  • Learn to make a diamond-shaped grid

  • Color each box. Warning ! the squares that touch each other must not be of the same color.

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Collective panel to display in the hallway on the theme of the Harlequin:

  • Realization of backgrounds with a roller on Canson paper

         rouge - vert - bleu - yellow - orange - purple - black - white

  • Diamond cutting in the backgrounds

  • Handling - assembly of diamonds - gluing

  • Collage on this Harlequin silhouette background or masks made using 2 egg box cells painted black + confetti + streamers + feathers

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Interdisciplinary project "Food balance":

  • fruit and vegetable mask workshop

carnaval masque chou
carnaval masque champignon
carnaval masque radis
carnaval masque ananas
carnaval masque banane
carnaval masque poire

Projet interdisciplinaire "Equilibre alimentaire" :

  • atelier Pop Art fruits et légumes

Je choisis deux couleurs de craies grasses, une pour le fond, une pour le fruit - Assemblage à la manière de Andy Warhol

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carnaval découpage collage clown
Student files
writing -  discovery of writing - picture books
fiche écriture vive le carnaval

Differentiated work:

propose a model according to the graphic possibilities of the student

  • Long live the carnival!

  • Long live carnival!

  • carnival!

  • LONG LIVE CARNIVAL!

Provisional entry:encode a written message

After the party, production of a writing to keep track in the notebook of life

Written production CP

carnaval production écrite CP

Referents created by students

dessin serpentins
dessin confettis
dessin sarbacanes
dessin chapeaux
poèmes chants carnaval

Clothes

New! Dec 2022
album quelle culotte

Kayo's panties flew off as they dried in the wind. 

All animals wonder about this mysterious object: is it a cap? a flag ? a bird trap? This pretty fabric would be so easy to cut...

Warning ! It's my panties!

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carnaval nice 2 petit quotidien
carnavals quoti
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carnaval dunkerque quoti
carnaval dunkerque 2 quoti
carnaval antilles quoti
carnaval antilles quoti
Flowchart:   "dress up, party!"
New !

Language

Body expression: parading - dancing

  • Search for a dance, steps, formations

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Carnival 
on the theme "castles - kings - queens

Kitchen workshop

  • Prepare pancakes or apple donuts

  • taste

visual arts

  • Make masks, hats, costumes, props

  • make up, dress up

  • Use different techniques to make the castle, the king, the queen in volume

  • Work with materials: wool, fabric, lace...

Mathematics 

  • Volume construction

  • Concept of alternating stones

  • Rhythms in the decoration of King/Queen clothes

  • Decoding a recipe and the concept of measuring ingredients

MEN projet carnaval animaux
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