Penguins celebrating thanksgiving.

The week of celebrating Thanksgiving

This week we have been talking and reading about the first thanksgiving, what it is all about and why we celebrate it. We have made a turkey by cutting a square shaped cardboard box and glued many different color feathers and felt, we also had a math turkey activity with counting feathers and the shape of a turkey.

We ended the week with a nice turkey storytelling in the drama room with lots of hugs and thanks to everyone.

Purpose

Celebrating thanksgiving

Lpfö revised 2010

• Develop their curiosity and enjoyment, as well as their ability to play and learn.
• Develop their understanding of shapes,location and space.
• Develop their creative abilities and to convey impressions,thoughts and experiences in many different forms such as play,pictures,song and music, dance and drama.

Cockatoos- Green Screen

Green Screen activity

Cockatoos are preparing the Nobel project in litureature. We used  the Green Screen as the background for our nobel day literature and technology as the children do the jolly phonics sounds in the background of pictures off s, a, d, etc. They loved work with the Green Screen! 

Purpose: To use technology and literature as part of our nobel literature, and involve them in jolly phonics in a different way that we use to do. 

Lpfö

to develop their use of spoken language and the ability to play with words

Thanksgiving Fun- peacocks

This week we learned a lot about the history and meaning of the American holiday, Thanksgiving.  We learned lots of new vocabulary such as: Native American, Pilgrim, Wompanoag, wetu, Mayflower, tribe, village, treaty, grateful and thankful.  Each day the children said one thing they were thankful for and put it on a leaf on our, "We are thankful for tree" we also made thank you cards to thank people in our lives for making us happy.  In celebration of Thanksgiving and in relation to our IPC theme, houses and homes, we learned about how the Wompanoag Native American lived and the types of homes in which they lived.  We learned about how the homes were built and from which materials.  We divided into small groups and created our very own Wetus using pipe cleaners, felt and sticky tacky.  

Purpose: 

- to develop the children's understanding of why and how Thanksgiving is celebrated

- to develop the children's receptive and expressive vocabulary for words related to Thanksgiving

- to develop the children's understanding of the words grateful and thankful as well as ways to express thankfulness

- to develop the children's understanding of how Native Americans lived

Lpfö-98 connection: 

- Develop a feeling of respect for other cultures

- develop their use of spoken language, vocabulary and concepts

- develop their ability to build, create and construct using different materials

Kiwis- Creative expressions-Germs

We droped small blobs of liquid paint onto our paper. We used then straws to blow the blobs of paint in all directions. Once dry we sticked on the googly eyes and added few expressions like: sad, angry, happy as a reminder that some bacteria are friendly.

Connection to Lpfö: “Develop their motor skills. Ability to co-ordinate, awareness of their own body, as well as an understanding of the importance of maintaining their own health and well-being.”

“develop their creative abilities and the ability to convey impressions, thoughts and experiences in many different forms.”

Cockatoos: land and water art

Cockatoos for our land and water theme, we did an art project using shaving cream, glue, and coloring. We talked about the land being green and the water being blue. So that we were able to tell which was which we colored the land green and the water blue.

Purpose: As part of the grid in IPC we needed to talk about land and water and be able to distinguish them

Lpfö98- to develop their ability to listen to instructions.

To develop their fine motor skills.

Flamingoes: Thanksgiving Turkey Craft

Flamingoes enjoyed making thanksgiving Turkey craft. Firstly they wrapped yarn around styrofoam balls. Then they cut colorful feathers for the turkey. On the feathers we wrote what they were thankful for!!!

Purpose:

To learn more about different cultures

Connection to Lpfö:

Develop feeling and respect for other cultures

Develop their creative abilities

penguins pineapple week

Baking a pineapple pie

Today we introduced the children the exotic fruit pineapple with a funny learning song and some pictures of different color the fruit can have. We also talked about eating the fruit fresh as it is and you can also bake it, so we bake a pie. Which turned out to be really yummy and sugar free.

Purpose

Baking a pineapple pie

Lpfö:

• Develop their use of spoken language.
• Develop their mathematical skill-develop their understanding on the basic properties of sets,quantity, order and numbers, also for measurements,time and change.

Ducklings: Pineapple senses experienment in 5 senses room

On Wednesday we had the circle time in 5 senses room and water room in two small groups. Then the two groups took turns to do two activities. One was to do an activity on mashing a well ripened pineapple, blended  and chopped pineapple. The children were shown the different changes in processing a pineapple, we did the sensory of  the three activities of the pineapple. They can feel the soft or hard pineapple and talk about it. The hard one can be used for chopping and the soft can be used for mashing or blending.  We have also talked about the skin and why we need to peel it before eating . Then, we chose the one we liked to taste. The children loved eating the pineapple!

We have been working on the following Lpfö goals:

Develop their understanding of science and relationships to nature, as well as knowledge of plants, animals and also simple chemical processes and physical phenomena.

Develop their ability to listen, reflect and express their own views and try to understand the perspectives of others.

Kiwis - Swedish circle time

We used our Weather Bear Game to talk about what the weather looks like. We dressed the bear according to the weather outside. We used words like sunny and cloudy, wet, cold.

Purpose: To learn about what weather look like and the appropriate words .

Connection to Lpfo: “Develop their curiosity and enjoyment, as well as their ability to play and learn.”

Cockatoos- world map

Look at the World map and globe! 

CockatooS looked at a world map and globe, identifying the land and the sea. They had to find sea, land and rivers. Where do we live? Is it near to the sea? Is it near to a river? Who has lived near the sea? Find it on the map.

They were really curious about the land and the sea in the world.

Purpose

Using a variety of strategies for exploring and making sense of the world

To learn The natural environment and their own place in it

Lpfö

To develop their ability to learn through explore and play and ask questions.

To develop their ability to listen.

Kiwis

Outing : We went to the woods for an outing. It was nice to spend time outside in rain. We had à lot of fun there.

Purpose:

To work on social and gross motor skills.

Lpfö : "develop their motor skills. Ability to co-ordinate awareness of their own body, as well as an understanding of the importance of maintaining their own health and well-being."

Penguins color bunting

Mango bunting

This week we have introduced the new exotic fruit mango to our group. Today we talked about the different colors a mango can have, we made a color bunting by using coffee filter and washable pen in the colors of a mango (green,yellow and red). all the children one by one drew some lines and circles and later a teacher cut it out in a shape of a mango and added some water so that the colors mixed together beautifully like a mango.

Purpose

Develop their fine motor skills.

Lpfö revised 2010

• Develop their creative abilities in many different forms, such as pictures, song, music and paint.
• Develop their curiosity as well as the ability to play learn. 

Peacocks: Engineering and the strongest shape

The peacocks have been learning about different professions involved in the building process.  We have discussed the responsibilities of the architect and have now introduced the engineer.  We used the www.pbs.org shape lab to test the strength of different shapes in architecture.  The children have learned about weight and how it affects different structures.  They have learned that a rectangle's sides are weak and unable to bear a lot of weight but can be made stronger if a beam is placed diagonally in the middle.  They have learned that a triangle is the strongest shape, but only when the weight is placed on it's strongest part, it's points.

Purpose:

* develop the children's understanding of shapes involved in architecture as Wall as their understanding of the following vocabulary: weight, pressure, load, point, side and support

Lpfö-98

develop their use of spoken language, vocabulary and concepts

develop their ability to distinguish, explore, document, put questions about and talk about science

develop tehir abitity to identify technology in everyday life and explore how technology works.

Town Project

Flamingoes: Town Building Project

This week the Flamingoes started to plan for their Town Building Project!!! Firstly, we made a ‘Mind Map’ for our project.We discussed what makes a city work and what was important for the infrastructure of a City and why? We talked about the physical or structural part of a city. The children asked and answered several questions and were able to identify many important things  that included a city’s transportation systems (roads, bridges, highways, public transportation, etc.) and its buildings (schools, hospital,library,sports facilities, shopping center, bank,bakery).

After identifying the important buildings and what makes a city work, we moved on to the next part of our project, which was to make a plan for the city. Children were divided into two groups and each group drew a plan/map of the city with illustrations of important buildings, roads/streets ,bridges e.t.c.These initial planning drafts were used to prepare the final plan for the city/town!!!

Purpose

Develop understanding of Spatial relation

For the children to reflect, explore and to think independently and develop problem solving skills

Connection to Lpfö

Develop understanding of space, shapes ,location and direction ,quantity and number concepts.

Ducklings: Trick or treat at Halloween!

Last monday we had celebrated Halloween together around the whole preschool. The ducklings children also all dressed up as in different interesting costumes and we went trciking or treating around the preschool! We were also singing and dancing in the drama room by making a big circle and checking later their pockets in which they got their special "treat" from the activity: the raisins :-) The chilren were enjoying the trick and treat and eating the raisins.

We have been working on the following Lpfö goals:

Develop their creative abilities and the ability to convey impressions, thoughts and experiences in many different forms, such as play, pictures, song and music, dance and drama.

Feel a sense of participation in their own culture and develop a feeling and respect for other cultures.

Penguins celebrating Halloween

Halloween

This week we celebrated halloween, we made lots of halloween decorations and baking sugar free goodies for our halloween fika for parents and friends. Almost everyone was so cute dressed in their halloween outfits. We knocked on doors and went trick or treating which was fun and scary at the same time, But all of the penguins loved their treats that they got in their bags.

Purpose

Celebrating Halloween

Trick or treating

Lpfö revised 2010

• Develop their curiosity and enjoyment.

Kiwis- Math Touch and Feel activity

We talked about summer and fun at the beach even outside it is autumn .We mixed sand and playdough to make our own mini sized beach.We added it shells and we counted them.

Purpose: To use our senses feeling smooth and rough textures(playdough and sand).To learn to count up to 10.

Connection to Lpfo:

“develop their understanding of space, location and direction…..”

“Develop their motor skills. Ability to co-ordinate, awareness of their own body, as well as an understanding of the importance of maintaining their own health and well-being.”

Cockatoos- Halloween

On Monday 2nd of November we had our Halloween party!!During the morning we celebrated trick and treat with the kids and in the afternoon we had a big Halloween fika with parents and children. We had an amazing and fun day !!

Cockatoos prepapared some decoration the week before of Halloween so  the school could look scary. 

Purpose

To celebrate Halloween tradition