Children

Criança é Vida Crianças (Child is Life Children) began as a pilot project in 1999, but it soon became a highly successful program of the Criança é Vida (Child is Life) project. Its goal is to transform children into small agents of change for their own reality.

And, to learn to work with children in the best possible way, a Strategic Alliance was established with the Escola Viva, a preschool reference in the city of São Paulo. It is very important to have the educational support of those who know how to sensitize children and offer activities that really awaken the interest of this age group.

This project was originally designed for the 5-to-6-year age group, and in 2012, the instructional units were also adapted to 3-to-4 year-old children. In recent years, we worked only with the project for the 3-to-4-year age group, a cycle of 8 instructional units.

Cycle 1

  1. Me and my bath
  2. Playing and eating with clean hands

Cycle 2

  1. Caring for skin and hair
  2. Clean and wash with soap

Cycle 3

  1. Too, too, ra, too, from “I care for my teeth”
  2. You can’t be too careful

Cycle 4

  1. Eating to grow I
  2. Eating to grow II

Testimonials about this project

As a matter of fact, this project only emphasized how the real, the fun, and play can make a difference in learning, making it more interesting and consequently easier to assimilate. I analyze myself this way and see that I am on the right path.

(What most impressed me) in the project was the priority given to the fun aspects, because even though we know that this is essential in early childhood education, with the hecticness of everyday life, we allow everything to become very mechanized. The project showed me that the way to ensure real learning is to add play and lightness to content.

You cannot eat dirty things because you’ll get little belly bugs; they are the microbes.