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Theme: Night

Language mastery:

Work around the album, chronology of the story

The night

Evocation of fear, nightmares, bedtime rituals

day and night activities (school/street/home)

the landmarks of day and night

Identify the different day and night activities, people who work at night

 

Poetry: The Night - Jean-Pierre SIMEON

 

Literary network around the theme

Structuring of time:

Become aware of the day/night rhythm

history timeline

 

Discover the world

Animals that live at night

Address the notions of light and shadow, light and darkness

The flashlight :lamap the bear's nose (link)

                                        What is the use of this object ? ac Nancy Metz(link)

In the arts:

Night, sleep in art

Project launch

Three baby owls wake up at night and their mother is missing. The anguish of the little one will soon win over the older ones.

Third person narration
Key words
• Anxiety-Fear
• Ritournelle
• Separation

The mother's departure or absence, the wait, the return
Understand emotional states, learn to talk about them.

Discover the world

Discovery of the albumBaby Owls (Mr. Wadell)

  • Quels sont les personnages ?         Sarah , Remy, Lou, Mom

  • Où se déroule l'histoire ?        _cc781905-5cde-3194-bb3b -136bad5cf58d_        sur un arbre, dans une forêt

  • Quand cela se passe-t-il ?        _cc781905-5cde-3194 -bb3b-136bad5cf58d_       the night

oral language

Owls live at night and we, what do we do at night?

At home, how do you know when it's time to go to bed?

After the night, who does he have?

(provide "moon" labels to place between the days of the little train of the week)

The landmarks of day and night

clarity, sun, absence of electric lighting // darkness, lighting, car headlights, moon, stars

Shadow and light

(In the playroom, install the projector and make the room dark.)

"We'll go to the game room to play in the night."

  • Go slowly into the dark room, sit down.

Listen to the reactions: "we can't see anything... it's dark...

Listen to noises coming from outside.

          _cc781905-5cde-3194 -bb3b-136bad5cf58d_           = => when it's dark, we hear better, we pay more attention

  • Turn on the projector

Observing the shadows, playing with his shadow. (see project shadow and light​)

PS-MS operation

Gironde CDDP (link)

Literary network around the theme
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allez au lit maman.jpg
la chouette.jpg
ou est la lum.jpg
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bonne nuit les jumelles.jpg
bonne nuit mulotte.jpg
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papa.jpg
au lit petit monstre.jpg
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nuit blanche.jpg
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Album with link for educational tracks
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Evoking sleep in tales

Goldilocks falling asleep and falling asleep with the 3 bears.

Alice in Wonderland falling asleep and dreaming.

Sleeping Beauty plunged into a long sleep following a spell.

Snow White asleep as if she were dead.

The Princess and the Pea who can't sleep because of discomfort.

Poetry

As it is dark...

How dark it is in the valley!

I saw only a veiled form

Floated there on the forest.

She came out of the meadow,

His foot skimmed the flowering grass

It's a strange daydream,

It fades and disappears.

          _cc781905-5cde-3194 -bb3b-136bad5cf58d_          Alfred de Musset

                     "May Night"

The Night - Jean Pierre SIMEON

The Moonbeam Song

Do you know who I am ?

- moonbeam

Do you know where I come from?

- look up there.

My mother is bright and the night is brown

I crawl on the tree and slide under the water;

I lay down on the grass and run on the dune;

I climb the black wall, the trunk of the birch,

Like a marauder looking for his fortune.

I'm never cold, I'm never hot.

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singing

Dame souris

Dame souris trotte

Noire dans le gris du soir.

Dame souris trotte,

Grise dans le noir...

Un nuage passe,

Il fait noir comme en un four.

Un nuage passe :

Tiens, le petit jour !

Dame souris trotte,

Rose dans les rayons bleus,

Dame souris trotte,

Debout, paresseux !

Paul VERLAINE

Nouveau ! oct2024
La nuit étoilée          _cc781905-5cde -3194-bb3b-136bad5cf58d_ Vincent Van Gogh

The Starry Night is a painting by Dutch post-Impressionist painter Vincent van Gogh. The painting represents what Van Gogh could see and extrapolate from the room he occupied in the asylum of the Saint-Paul-de-Mausole monastery in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence in May 1889._cc781905-5cde-3194-bb3b -136bad5cf58d_Wikipedia

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Presentation of the work:

It is a reproduction (a photo) of the painting by Vincent Van Gogh

  • What do we see?

In front (in the foreground) a tree, a cypress​.

Then, further back (second plan) a village.

And in the background (background) the sky with stars.

  • What catches the eye?

In the center, in the middle, ​spirals and a star.

The huge spiral resembles a wave and gives the impression of movement. 

Other lines are sinuous: the cypress, the bell tower...

  • What colors does the painter use?

Blue (cold, serene color), different blues, and golden yellow​ (warm, luminous color).

The sky is very bright but the village and the cypresses are in the dark.

  • How did Van Gogh work with these colors?

by small keys​

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Appropriate the vocabulary describing light

 

          _cc781905-5cde-3194 -bb3b-136bad5cf58d_           _cc781905 -5cde-3194-bb3b-136bad5cf58d_     Compare different tables

Van Gogh - Starry Night : flickering, light intensity

Millet or Munch: halos, lights

Matisse - The Fall of Icarus

Braque - two birds

Light illuminates, shines, sparkles, dazzles... (intensity)

Different sources: neon, desk lamp, flashlight, candle, phosphorescent object, car headlights,... (different lighting capacities and different colors) 

sleep in art
Danae - Gustav KLIMT

This painting by Gustav Klimt represents the myth of Danae.

Danae is the daughter of Acrisios, king of Argos and Eurydice. The myth tells that  Acrisios locks up Danae in a tower after having consulted an oracle who announces to the king that he will be killed by his grandson.

He locks Danae in a tower so that no one can approach him.

But Zeus, in love with the young woman, falls in the form of golden rain on the sleeping Danea.

From this divine meeting will be born Perseus.

Asleep, Danae seems innocent and full of sweetness.

Her calm, peaceful face contrasts with the sensuality of her thigh,  of her breast and her half-open mouth.

Klimt, as usual, puts the eroticism of women in the foreground as well as the sensuality of the body.

Danaé - Jan GOSSAERT aka MABUSE

In this painting, Danaé  is represented halfway covered by a  blue garment which highlights the whiteness of her body and_cc7819758de90-39758 bb3b-136bad5cf58d_which gives an erotic aspect to this work.

She is sitting on a cushion at the top of the tower while the golden rain falls on her.

Pottery: Danae and the Golden Rain

Ceramic from  Antiquity.

Danae is sitting or lying down, barely dressed and receiving the golden rain.

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Discover the world
Nocturnal/diurnal animals

At night when you sleep in your little bed, some animals walk around...

Do you want to know who they are and what they do?

Who goes out at night?

Many animals live at night, they feed, they hunt,...

the cat, the hedgehog, the owl...

read different animal documentaries. Make sheets for the knowledge binder (cf: We know how to talk about the hedgehog)

propose animal labels to classify 

Langage oral          _cc781905-5cde- 3194-bb3b-136bad5cf58d_     sleep
Health Education:
Emphasize the importance of naps and nighttime sleep 
Express yourself freely in the context of a collective discussion:
Children will draw on their personal experience

Session 1: The signs of sleep

How do you feel like you want to sleep?

your eyes sting, you rub your eyes, you yawn, you get angry for nothing, you stop listening...

You want to sleep but not go to sleep.

Sleep is necessary to be healthy and fit.

It is during the night that the learnings of the day are fixed and memorized.

Session 2 : Friends of sleep

To sleep well, what do you need?

a blanket, a story,   the elves, the good fairies who protect from the dark, a song, hugs, a kiss, your thumb, a pacifier, a bottle, a glass of water, a little light, silence or, on the contrary, soft music, sounds of conversation from parents...

Need for a real activity during the day and a return to calm a little before bedtime (reduce noise, light, movements) and the security blanket that reassures.

The night is the end of the day (today) and the beginning of another (tomorrow). who love you when you wake up.

Session 3 : Fears, nightmares

 

Are you in your bed a little scared? About what ?

darkness, a monster, a wolf, having a nightmare, your parents disappearing, things you saw during the day, in the street, on TV, in a book, at school, at home...

You can talk to your parents, the Mistress, the ATSEM...

Session 4 : The enemies of sleep

What keeps you from falling asleep?

too much noise in the house, outside, arguments, anger, fear of the dark, of having eaten too much, of watching a scary movie, nightmares...

Extension :

Draw what scares me (objects, animals, monsters...) by drawing me as a superhero in the middle, or even with my favorite cuddly toy.

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