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| Managed by a council, the SEC functions all
year round, including during school vacations. |
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| The SEC Fundecitrus-Araraquara has 240 children,
from 7 to 14 years old, enrolled in the public school system, who participate
in several activities beyond school hours. They arrive at the school in
the morning and participate in the SEC in the afternoon or vice-versa. |
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| There are seven workshops: Texts (reading and
composition), Interpersonal Relationships, Recreation and Games, Music, Daily Organization
Practices, Artistic Expression and Tasks. |
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Workshops |
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Texts (Reading and Composition) |
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| The objective of this workshop is forming children's
reading habits, and conveying the message that reading is a pleasure. To
achieve this objective, children write compositions according to themes
chosen by their teachers or prepare exercises based on words chosen at random,
which stimulate creativity. While they write, they learn the correct spelling
of words and at the same time organize their thoughts in a logic fashion,
from the stories they themselves create. In this workshop the students work
with dramatization, interpreting the characters that they themselves created
or characters from other authors. To accomplish this, teachers try to stimulate
children's and teenagers' latent curiosity. Basic computer utilization is
also part of this workshop. |
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Interpersonal Relationships |
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| Theater, dances and sports. Keep the body moving
is the purpose of the Interpersonal Relationships workshop. When students are aware
of their own body possibilities and limitations, they begin to build stronger
interpersonal relationships, and at the same time stimulate the preservation
of their self-image, becoming aware of their identity and individuality.
Teachers stimulate the differences that exist in each child, stressing his/her
social roles, ethical values and sexuality, contributing to the child's
development process. |
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Music |
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| One of the principal objectives of this workshop
is to expand children's musical knowledge universe. It all begins with the
awareness of body and environmental sounds, then the construction of musical
instruments built from scrap, and arriving at music composed by the most
diverse authors and performers. |
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Recreation and Games |
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| More than just enjoying some moments of leisure
in the program of activities of SEC, these workshops develop concepts about
rules, sense of teamwork, loyalty and the old concept that there is a right
time for everything: to play and to study. These activities are simple and
may become part of the students daily routine out of school, among which:
jumping rope, table tennis, checkers, nine men's morris, go, cards, halma,
puzzles, draw cuts. |
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Artistic Expression |
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| Collage, drawing, painting, manual arts and
crafts with various materials such as wood, gypsum and clay are some of
the activities that are part of the expression workshops in SEC - Fundecitrus.
Frequently, to compose works of art, students make researches with the material
available at school; they look for objects that apparently have no use,
they find things of their milieu to exercise their creativity. |
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Tasks |
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| In this workshop, teachers do not interfere
with the regular schooling program, but try to create in the children a
sense of responsibility and loyalty when they point out to the importance
of preparing their home work. |
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Daily Organization Practices |
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| Brush their teeth after every meal, take a
bath, keep them clean and organize their school material, seem to be simple
activities that any child can do. However, for those children who are not
taught at home, these habits end up not being incorporated into their lives.
Teachers explain the importance of these daily activities and, at the same
time transmit notions of citizenship. Environment preservation is a theme
that is treated separately at this workshop, showing the importance of respecting
the world in which we live. |
Supplementary Education Center Fundecitrus-Araraquara
