PENGUINS- Reading and Phonics fun

Exploring the Pretend Room!

On Friday the ducklings explored the pretend room by visiting the grocery store, seeing a doctor and working in front of a computer! The children have explored different environments that we have in our everyday life!

LPfö: To develop their curiosity and enjoyment, as well as their ability to play and learn

Life cycle, butterfly

For the theme changes we choose the book of the hungry caterpillar to start with. The children heard a lot about the cycle of the butterfly. We read the book caterpillar to butterfly. On a plate they had to complete the cycle. They had to cut out all the pieces first and put them in the right order. 

Making our own Weather vane

The flamingoes made their own weather indicator by cutting out the shapes of cloud, snowflake, raindrop and  Sun. Then they coloured these shapes. For hanging these cutouts we went to the forest to gather sticks. The flamingoes then painted their sticks in different colours and tied them in the shape of the English alphabet 'x', with the help of the teacher. Next the flamingoes hanged thier cutouts at the four corners of this 'x' shaped stick thus creating their very own weather vane!

Purpose :                  To make the children familiar with the changes in weather.

Lpfö connection.  :     Develop their ability to build using different material.

                                  Develop their understanding of different cycles in nature.

Caterpillar changing into a Butterfly!

In keeping with our changes theme the Flamingoes were involved in 'The Caterpillar transforming into a butterfly' activity. We divided this activity in two parts . In the first part the flamingoes made the caterpillar using felt balls, clothespins and pipe cleaners. In the second part of the activity the Flamingoes coloured the tissue paper using their imagination. This tissue paper was then attached to the clothespin and voila! The catrrpillar was transformed into a butterfly!

Purpose :                   To make the children familiar with the changes theme.

Lpfö connection :       Develop their understanding of Science and relationship to nature.

Lets Pretend- Goldilocks

We set up a "real life" Goldilocks setting for the children to interact with as part of our entry point.  We ask them questions of size comparisons and see if they can recognize what story this is and what items belong to who.

Lpfö98: To develop their ability to ask questions and develop their ability to compare size, shape, etc.

Lets Pretend

For our entry point in our IPC theme, we have Lets Pretend. Today we dressed as different animals, used puppets, hats, etc to be anything we want. We wanted to introduce the costumes and let the cockatoos' imagination take over.

Lpfö98- "To develop their communication and creative abilities."

Week 3 pics

Fun in the snow.

Lpfö 98:

Develop the kids' gross motor skills

New year greetings.

Making new year greetings!

Lpfö: develop their creative abilities.