Celebrations Around the World

Name: Silvia Romano

Grade level: Pre-K-K (Small/ large Group activity)

Content Areas: Social Studies, Math, Language Arts, and Fine Arts

Classroom Time: 30 minutes/ day, for 1 or 2 weeks during December.

Purpose: Students will be exposed to different celebrations around the world integrating Math, Language Arts, Fine Arts and Social Studies.

Skills addressed:
Social Studies: Learn and celebrate different customs and traditions.
Math: Review shapes, numeration, one to one correspondence, patterns.
Language Arts: Listening and retelling stories, writing, printing awareness.
Fine Arts: Listening and singing various traditional songs, creating Artwork related to the different celebrations.

Supplies: Construction Paper, glue, scissors, crayons, markers, handouts, seeds or buttons or some small objects, “stamps” Music: Traditional Christmas songs (English and Spanish), Hanukah songs and African songs, Christmas, Hanukah and Kwanzaa Books, optional: Dreidel, Mancala Game

Links page:
Preset: “The Raven” http://knowingpoe.thinkport.org/writer/annotated.asp
Full Text for printing- http://www.eapoe.org/works/poems/ravent.htm

3. Musical selections: www.Amazon.com
Visual Art Suggestions: Gentileschi, Judith Beheading Holofernes
http://www.artchive.com/artchive/G/gentileschi/gent_holofernes.jpg.html

Hopper, Sun in an Empty Room link

Kahlo, Self Portrait link

Klimt, The Kiss http://www.penwith.co.uk/artofeurope/klimt_kiss.jpg

Modigliani, Jeanne Hebuterne with hat link

Monet, Impression Sunrise link

Munch, The Scream or Cry link

Tiebaud, Cakes link

Waterhouse, The Lady of Shalott http://www.jwwaterhouse.com/view.cfm?recordid=28
(careful about previewing because of other images on the screen)

Wyeth, Christina’s World link

5. The Shining Redux http://www.ifilm.com/video/2681181
The Shining link
8. “The End of the Raven” can be found at: http://bertc.com/end_of_the_raven.htm

Venn Diagram
http://www.readwritethink.org/materials/venn/index.html

Extension recuts: Link

Directions: Circle or highlight the word you feel best represents the mood of the movie trailer.
Movie Trailer 1	Movie Trailer 2
angry whimsical optimistic somber suspenseful ominous merry frightening mysterious poignant	angry whimsical optimistic somber suspenseful ominous merry frightening mysterious poignant

Name That Mood

Directions: Circle or highlight the word you feel best represents the mood of the different poems.
“The Raven”	“The End of the Raven”
angry whimsical optimistic somber suspenseful ominous merry frightening mysterious poignant	angry whimsical optimistic somber suspenseful ominous merry frightening mysterious poignant

Define mood: ________________________________________

Directions: Listen to the songs your teacher plays for you. After you listen to each song, identify the mood using one of the words below. Look at the paintings that your teacher shows you. Identify what you think the mood of the painting expresses.

	Mood of Song		Mood of Painting
Song 1		Painting 1
Song 2		Painting 2
Song 3		Painting 3
Song 4		Painting 4
Song 5		Painting 5

Angry	envious	mysterious	merry	apprehensive	Optimistic
Poignant	lonely	gloomy	thrilling	whimsical	Threatening
Introspective	frightening	ominous	suspenseful	Somber	Desire

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