Mestre Tetê ( Paulo R. dos S. Ribeiro) has been living in Governador Valadares, Minas Gerais, for over thirty years. Master of Capoeira, graduated in Pedagogy and Management, degree in Physical Education, postgraduate in Neuropsychopedagogy and Psychomotricity. Tetê has been working with children for three decades and developed his methodology called ” The Animals in the game of Capoeira” having as structuring axis the interactions and play, a method full of educational intentionality, conceiving the child as a historical, which produces culture and must have their learning and development rights guaranteed.