Clube do Livro- tema Eu quero, Eu quero

Wednesday we had our Clube do Livro or Book club (literal translation). We did a play based on the book
"Eu quero! Eu quero!" by Shirley Souza.

The book was about this little girl that has a tantrum every time she wants something. By the end she learns that others are not as privileged as she is. Here is the summary in Portuguese ("Tudo o que Júlia quer ela ganha e quando não ganha, apronta um escândalo de arrepiar. Até que vê um menino de rua brincando em uma praça. Júlia nota que ele não tem muita coisa: brinquedos, casa, talvez nem pai, nem mãe. E assim ela percebe que possui coisas demais e algo mais importante que tudo: o amor de sua família."). It has a great message as it teaches that love is more important than material things.
The play was lots of fun...and entertaining. I especially liked that I played the dad... even though my mustache did not allow me to speak as well as I hoped. I particularly liked that I was an extremely good looking dad (my mustache made me sexy) and that I could have a daughter the same age as me (LOL). The kids played attention to the play so I declare it to be a success! Enjoy the picture:

Susanna and Daniella did a great job singing traditional Brazilian songs with the children. The songs teach vocabulary and passing on of Brazilian culture.  I took pictures of some of the songs and you can see them here.

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Suzanna reminded the children of the instruments used in our last Clube do Livro and also introduced some new instruments. I was pleasantly surprised when my son remembered the name of reco-reco.... This time they learned about the triangulo.
By the way, we used our Mala Magica to store the instruments. The magic bag is Monica's creation. For it I give Monica the "Fashion Hip Mamae Award".. it is similar like the Oscars but without the fancy dress... and the public, and the money... and the naked man statue...Oh well..okay..it is nothing like the Oscars but it is still a great Award for a Great Mala. (someone had too much coffee and is having too much fun with this blog today). Now, back to topic: Here is why I go on and on about the magic mala. Totally fun!

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When we finished singing the children were divided into three groups (different reading levels) and we all read at least one story to our children. It was really good!

So, I am in love with Lapbooks/Livro de Colo. I have been obsessively printing, cutting, gluing, laminating and creating things out of free lapbooks lessons. I have several favorite sites. Tonight I had the idea of searching for portuguese lapbooks. I was happy to find a few! Here they are for ideas:

Lapbook about Brazil..and its difference/similarities to USA
http://www.waldsfe.org/Snap%20Shots/brazil_flapbooks.htm

A bunch of lapbooks in portuguese with a christian theme
http://www.flickr.com/photos/sandramac/2269814956/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/sandramac/

Today Daughter and I did two activities.
The first was inspired by one of my favorite blogs of all time "Confessions of a Homeschooler". She got paint chips colors and did an activity for her preschooler to categorize colors (with different shades). I got her idea and changed up a little. You can read about what she did here

http://confessionsofahomeschooler.blogspot.com/2009/10/paint-chip-phonics.html

For us I wrote the colors in Portuguese. I let her try doing the lines to separate the colors.

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Then talked to my daughter about all the colors. We worked on our pronunciation.  It was so funny because when I was a kid I could not say "amarelo" (yellow) well..my daughter has the same issue. Everytime she would try saying "amarelo" it sounded like "amalelo" which sounds much like "yellow"... LOL! In this activity my goal was for her to learn/practice the colors in Portuguse.

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We were having so much fun that we decided to count all the colors (as a total) and then each color and write down the number. So in the end we worked on gluing, counting, color, pronunciation, and line drawing. But more importantly we had fun! Motherhood instructions definitely would have a chapter on fun.

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Another activity we did today, was to learn the location of Brasil and USA. Then we glued hearts in both places. So cute! So reflective of how I feel...hearts in both places.

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