IN THE WORLD OF WORDS

[orig. tittle: NO MUNDO DAS PALAVRAS]

1. Pedagogical base: literature/poetry
2. Main methodology: education through art, polisensorial education
3. Duration: 8 hours divided in sessions
4. Public: 6-10 years old children
   

Unforgettable travel to the world of fairy tales, books and histories to discover the magic power of the words.
Words which create ourselves, our imagination and reality around us.
Words which are express not only by our verbal language, but also by our body and even with eyes totally closed.
Listening to our soul we discover the words hidden inside of us and construct the most beautiful paintings ever seen.
We create the histories with our imagination, we discover the literature.
We express our own poetry of life.

Main goals:

• to create affective relations with books
• stimulation of cerebral areas responsible for reading and writing
  
• to develop creativity and lateral thinking
• prevention of dyslexia problem
• work on visual-auditive-kinesthetic coordination
  
• work on space and body orientation
• development of vocabulary (values, topics, concepts)

Orientation: António Xavier and Aleksandra Chomicz

Realisation:

• May-June of 2007: EB1 Pinhal Novo. Pedagogical base: "Dom Quixote" de Cervantes, "Os Ovos Misteriosos" de Luísa Ducla Soares, "A Girafa que comia Estrelas"de José Eduardo Águalusa
  
• March-April of 2008: EB2 Pinhal Novo. Pedagogical base: "Dom Quixote"de Cervantes