LESSON PLAN

Teacher: Elena Morales Rivas

Date: Week 1
Topic: Ropa bordada Mexicana (Chiapas)
Materials: • White t-shirt
• Paintbrush
• Fabric Paint
• Acrylic Paint of different colors
• Images related with mexican embroidery designs

Preparation: To have the images printed and the fabric paint ready.
Learning objectives: To identify colors and designes that each bouse las int his way
students create their own design and then they present it.
Introduction: Student talk about how design clothing in each region of Mexico is
(10 minutes) different. However this activity is focus on Chiapas state.

To créate an oral presentation about this embroidery clothing is made

Explicit in San cristobal de las Casas, Chiapas. Where students explain each
Instruction/Teacher element and the origin of this kind of clothing.
Modeling Teacher explains to students the material is used in this clothing and
how the process is.
(15 minutes)

Teacher with her own material shows how to create the embroidery
Guided blouse.
Practice/Interactive•
• Students creats their own interpretation of their embroidery T-
shirt using fabric paint instead of threads. While they work, they
Independent
Working Time listen to reginal music, in this way, students can express
(10 minutes) themselves freely without losing the main objective.
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Students comment their T-shirt designs and colors they use; and what
was their favorite part of the activity.
Review and Closing
(10 minutes)

LESSON PLAN
Teacher: Elena Morales Rivas

Date: Week 2
Topic: Piñata Mexicana
Materials: • Balloons
• Newspaper
• Tissue paper
• Glue
• Piñata´s song
• Christmas season fruit images
• Piñata´s images
• Piñata´s song
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Preparation: To have ballons already inflated, the newspaper cut in gradual pieces ,
in other words , strips, tissue paper in small squares to decorate and
piñata´s images.
Learning To discover how piñatas is used in a Mexican tradition, in order to they
objectives: can create their own one.
Introduction: Teacher shows images about what a piñata is, the explanations of
(5 minutes) different elements students will use and in which moment in Mexico the
piñata is broken.
 Teacher explains to children in which season the piñata is broken, but
Explicit focus on what Mexicans do after the Christmas dinner mainly. Once
Instruction/ students have done their piñata, students and teacher meet in a house
yard to break the piñata already full of candies and season fruits like
tangerine, cane, Mexican Hawthorne and Mexican turnip.
Teacher Modeling
And teach them the piñata´s song

(10 minutes)

• Teacher shows the materials to create their own piñata

Guided
Practice/Interactive • Teacher explains how to paste the newspaper pieces and how
Modeling children can decorate.
(5 minutes)
Children create their own piñata with the materials according to the
Independent personality and style of each child.
Working Time It is important to mention that is important that children have
(20 minutes) experience with the textures ad colors they can find in each element. In
the same way, they listen to piñata´s song while they create their
piñata.

Teacher provides feedback about the elements were presented and at

Review and the same time student mention what is their favorite color and favorite
Closing celebration
(10 minutes)
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Teacher: Elena Morales Rivas

Date: Week 3
Topic: El Castillo de Chapultepec
Materials: • Chapultepec castle printed images
• Colors
• Paper with Crown images
• Fabric Paint
• Paint brush
Preparation: To have Chapultepec castle printed images and crown
Learning To recognize the importance of Chapultepec castle in Mexican history
objectives: and the location.
Introduction: Teacher talks about Chapultepec castle history and who were tenants,
(10 minutes) the development and what you can find inside it.

Teacher provides details about the tenants (Maximiliano de Habsburgo

Explicit and his wife Carlota), at the same time, that today is a great museum
Instruction/Teacher which has amazing historical remains, like paintings. Besides, that is
Modeling located inside of the great Chapultepec Forest with a great fauna.

(5 minutes)

They will be given the material, and they will be given instructions on
Guided what to do in their activities, which consists of decorating their Castle
Practice/Interactive and its crown with paint and colors.
Modeling
(5 minutes)
In this section the children will make their art, they will be given their
Independent material at home so that they can begin to decorate their little cats and
Working Time crowns, they will be able to experiment with colors and paints, to be
(20 minutes) shapes and textures.
 Students explain what their favorite part of the activity was, and are
asked questions like, “If you had a Castle, what would you name it and
Review and
where would it be?”
Closing
(10 minutes)
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Teacher: Elena Morales Rivas

Date: Week 4
Topic: Día de Muertos, Hojaldras
Materials: • Harina para pan
• Agua (o tener ya masa para pan preparada)
• Ajonjolin
• Hojas impresas sobre la ofrenda
Preparation: To have the dough ready, to be able to handle it and make the bread
(puff pastry) and the printed sheets on the offering.
Learning To know the traditions, emphasizing the Day of the Dead, through the
objectives: explanation of the offerings and the preparation of the bread of the
dead.
Introduction: Broadly speaking, we will talk about the Day of the Dead tradition in the
(10 minutes) community of San Baltazar Teteta, Puebla, Pue. How families live this
beautiful tradition.

We will delve into this tradition, how families put their offerings in their
Explicit
homes and for whom, and above all how each family makes their own
Instruction/Teacher
Modeling
bread, and how everyone collaborates.

(5 minutes)

There will be a sample of the steps to make the bread of the dead
Guided (Hojaldra), how to make the shapes, the bones and the sesame seeds,
Practice/Interactive but it will be necessary to emphasize that it is not going to be baked, it
Modeling will only be a demonstration.
(10 minutes)

The children will be little bakers, each child will make 3 puff pastries,
Independent the size will be small so that it can be enough for everyone.
Working Time
(10 minutes)
 Children and teachers will talk in general about the 4 weeks that the
children worked, talk about what their favorite activity was, and how
Review and
they felt working these weeks.
Closing
(15 minutes)