This thesis aims to study the curriculum of early childhood education organized around the holidays and the calendar in two religious schools Early Childhood Education at one of the five most populous cities in the age group 0 to 6 years in the state of Rio de Janeiro. Understanding childhood as a social category and history, part of the culture and culture producer, early childhood education as a right of the child and the curriculum as experience of culture, has the theoretical background Bakhtin, Vygotsky, Benjamin, Sarmento and authors who have researched the school and curriculum. Trying to understand why schools from kindergarten curriculum organized around the holidays, whether it is orientation of the school system and the origin of this practice, knowledge and understanding of practices and interactions between children and adults, possible implications for the constitution of their subjectivities, if this practice relates to other conceptions in practice and identify learning institution that circulate in this environment. The first chapter briefly presents the recent history of early childhood education in Brazil and the conception of children taken in this research. The second chapter explains how the theme is present, presents the curriculum, policies, the debate on early childhood education and implications for daily practice. The third presents the theoretical references, research strategies, Information about the council, education system, schools and studied the process of approximation and integration in the field. The fourth chapter deals with observations, interviews and document analysis. The fifth chapter attempts to summarize the most relevant aspects of research and dialogue with schools and professionals in their desire to contribute to the perception of other job opportunities that are actually identified with the subjectivities that dialogue at the school.