1. CEIP Ramon Macip - Dolors Granés

2. Nowadays Carnival is a popular and playful festival. It is celebrated the week before Lent. The dates of this festival depends on the moon. For this reason Carnival can start between 29th of January and 4th of March and can end between 4th of February and 10th of March. Carnival is related to Christian tradition. Lent is a time of sacrifice and people can’t eat a lot; Carnival represents freedom and a time to break rules (to take advantage of this week to do what people won’t be able to do later).

3. Historically, two characters represent the fight between Carnival and Lent. The king of Carnival is a crazy person. His enemy, the old Lent, is an old woman with 7 legs, who fast and is vegetarian. Each year, the king of the Carnival reads an opening speech and then Carnival starts. In his opening speech, the king gives people permission to have fun without restrictions: it’s the time to dance and fancy dress parade. But chaos and madness only last a week. The last day of Carnival people realize that so much disorder isn’t good. In a public trial, the king is found guilty of all chaos and he’s condemned to death. After reading his will, he’s burnt in public.

5. In Carnival children have fun following the King of the Carnival’s instructions and putting on fancy dress, such as Spiderman, Batman, a chinese, a demon, a doctor, a nun, a witch, a princess, a baby, etc.

6. The king of the Carnival went to our school the 5 th of February and gave the children the following instructions: Monday, 8 th of February : To come to school wearing beach clothes. Tuesday, 9 th of February: To come to school with a funny hairstyle. Wednesday, 10 th of February : To come to school looking very smart. Thursday, 11 th of February : To come to school painted such an animal. Friday, 12 th of February : In the afternoon, to come to school putting on a fancy dress costume.

9. MONDAY Instructions:

11. TUESDAY

12. WEDNESDAY

14. THURSDAY

15. FRIDAY

17. Teachers and school staff

19. Carnival is also celebrated in our village. Many people and children were dressed with fancy costumes for all the streets on the 14th of February. Some people were dressed in a common theme (vikings, cowboys, clowns, …) but others in a specific item. Here we can see a little show…

22. Some of our pupils

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