penguins celebrating Nobel

Celebrating Nobel

Today we celebrated the Nobel by making a project video of mathematics. The children had to match the balls with the right color holes and drop it in. This activity showed how the children could match colors and also say the color out loud. We also had a feeding the shapes bags, the children got different colored shapes to put in the bags.

We got the diploma for mathematics.

Purpose

Learning about shapes,matching colors

Celebrating Nobel

Lpfö 98 revised 2010

• Develop their mathematical skill in putting forward and following reasoning.
• Develop their understanding of space,shapes,location and direction
• Feel a sense of participation in their own culture and develop a feeling and respect for other cultures

Cockatoos - Jolly Phonics

         




 We worked with Jolly Phonics set 2 c,k,e,h,r,m,d and we pasted pictures with letter shapes and their funny actions on Joly Booklets.

Children's interest: All the children were interested to use glue and paste the pictures, to remember the letters' actions and to sing their songs.

Purpose: To work on recognizing letter symbols

LPFÖ: Develop an interest in the written language and an understanding of symbols, and communicative functions.

Penguins having a math activity

Feeding the shape bags.

Today we had a math activity of different shape and color bags, the children had to pick a shape and feed the right bag. They either fed in the same color as the bags or fed in the same shape as the picture on the bag.

Some children didn’t want to participate because the bags look different but with a bit of push from the teacher the tried to.

Purpose

To develop the early math abilities

LPFÖ 2010 Revised

• Develop their understanding of shapes,location,color and direction.
• Develop their ability to listen and try to understand

Kiwis- Forest fun

One of our main focus area is healthy living. That time we went to the nearby forest where kiwis liked to climb and explore new places and enjoy their time as Wall as keep their body healthy. It also helps them to develop their motor and their gross motor skills.

Purpose:

1- To keep their body healthy.

2- T develop their motor skills.

3- To play and learn.

Lpfo:

Develop their motor skills and their ability to maintain their body healthier .

Flamingoes : Nobel Day Charity Project

This school year we have the focus areas, healthy living and children's rights. We decided to combine the two,  into a charity project for Nobel Day. 

The children learned about the 3R’s, Reduce, Reuse and Recycle. Three great ways that we can reduce waste and protect our environment, which ultimately contributes to our health and well-being. We made art and crafts with the recyclable materials. The children also donated their used books, toys and clothes which others can reuse. 

All the arts and crafts  and collected items were sold in the Christmas Market, which was a great success!!! The funds raised will be donated to Rädda Barnen/Save the Children organisation. It was a great learning experience for the children . They were involved in the whole process!! They learned about how they can take care of their environment by reducing, reusing and recycling and most of all how we can help save the children of the world and give them a better future!!!

Purpose:

For children to know how we can project our environment.

For children to know their rights.

For children to develop their empathy towards others by giving.

Lpfö:

To develop their ability to accept responsibility for their own actions and environment.

To develop the children’s ability to take account of and empathise with the situation of others, as well as the willingness to help others.

To develop an understanding that all persons have equal value.

Cockatoos - Exploring a wide of shapes

                 

        We played with different 2D shapes like circle, square, oval, triangle, diamond. We used either colored playdough or snow and mark making activity to explore and observe shapes.

Children's interest: All the children were very happy to play with snow but also to make circle prints in it.

Purpose: To explore different shapes through fun

LPFÖ: Develop their understanding of space, shapes location and direction, and the basic properties of sets, quantity, order and number concepts, also for measurements, time and change.

Cockatoos - Math - learning orange color

       
We learn to recognize orange color through a sensory activity.The children made playdough carrots and pretended boiling and prepare a soup with them.
Children's interest: All the children were excited to take part in the imaginative play.They were totally involved to prepare carrot soup and named the orange color while they were making carrots.
Purpose: To learn recognizing orange color through a sensory activity.
LPFÖ: Develop their ability to use mathematics to investigate, reflect over and test different different solutions to problem raised by themselves and others.

Peacock's parachute fun

                           

                                                            Parachute Fun!!!!!

Activity: 

The children learned the importance of following directions and cooperation when working in a large group.  They learned that in order for the parachute activities to work and for everyone to have fun each one of them played an important role.  They also discovered how the activities didn't go as planned when someone was not cooperating.  In the end, they were all eager to demonstrate the required skills for the group activity and had an amazing time. 

                                 

Purpose:

* develop the children's gross motor skill

* develop the children's ability to follow directions and cooperate in a group

Connection to the Lpfö-98 (Revised 2010):

The preschool should strive to ensure that each child develops.......

* their ability to function in a group

* their ability to develop their motor skills and co-ordinate

Penguins showing different emotions

Different emotions

This week we talked and acted our feelings out, looking into the mirror and making different emotional faces. Everyone got halved piece of  plate and glued on a  Popsicle, looked in the big mirror and made a face, we teachers helped drew a  eg. happy,sad,excited..etc face on the plate, we got to change our emotions, while looking in the mirror.

Purpose

Develop their awareness of the different emotions.( sad, happy, angry, sleepy)

Develop their ability to express their feelings and also how to change it. Eg when she/he is sad what do we do to make him/ her happy.

Lpfö Revised 2010

• Develop their understanding the different emotions and how to change it.
• Develop their ability to express their emotions according to the situation.

Cockatoos - Universal Children's Day

We celebrated this day by playing with colored balloons.Each child choose and named the color of the balloon and they played freely.

Children's interest:The excitement and happiness was on all the children’s faces.  

Purpose: To learn about importance of events and inter-nationality.

Lpfö:To feel a sense of participation in their own culture and develop a feeling and respect for other cultures.

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

A visit to the Recycling Center

This year for the Nobel Day the Flamingoes are doing a recycling project. We have been learning about the three R’s of the environment that is to reduce, reuse and recycle. The Flamingoes collected recyclable materials , sorted them and today we went to the recycling center.  All the children got to put the recyclable materials into the correct bins. It was a great hands on experience for the children!!!

Purpose

To teach the children about the importance of reducing, reusing and recycling.

To instill love and care for the environment.

Connection With the Lpfö

To develop a respect and care for the environment

Ducklings: Making Face Art Crafts with Different Emotions

We reviewed the emotions we learned last week with flashcards and then the children were divided into two groups doing an art activity about emotions. The children were given round colored construction paper to represent the faces and also googly eyes, pipe cleaners  and colorful stickers as five senses on the face. The children made different facial emotions with the help of the teachers like happy, sad, scared, sick and surprised faces.

Purpose:

To develop their fine motor skills.

To learn about different senses on their faces (IPC All About Me: My Body)

To develop their early knowledge on emotions and emotion management.

The Lpfö we have been working wtih:

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.

Penguins making stick puppets

Stick puppets

This week we introduced emotions with different colors to the children, yellow is happy, red is angry, blue is sad, purple is scared and green is disgust/blah. Everyday we talked and made the different emotion faces and compared them to the colors.The children made small teddy stick puppets,by choosing the color and emotions. For some children the choose the just the colors but for other they said eg. “Yellow=Happy” so the picked their colors.

They all added glue on the colored felt and stuck on the stick so that it looked like a teddy stick puppet. We are going to use the puppets together with teachers puppets that we made, and having puppet show expressing the different emotions.

Purpose

To understand the emotions and comparing it to the colors

Lpfö Revised

• Develop their creative abilities and the ability to convey impressions,thoughts and experiences in many different forms.

Cockatoos - Spray green color in the snow

We had fun playing with green water color in the snow learning this way to recognize it better.

    Children's interest: All the children enjoyed the activity and used spray color everywhere in our backyard.

   LPFÖ: Develop the ability to distinguish, express, examine and use mathematical concepts and their interrelationships.

Mathematics

Mathematics: kiwis had to match the number written on the mother fish by putting same number of baby fishes. Everybody took part in this activity.

Purpose: to develop their early math skills.

Lpfo:  "develop their mathematical skill in putting forward and following reasoning."

Ducklings Halloween Celebration

During the Halloween week we did a lot of activities to celebrate this Festival. We first introduced to the chlildren what is Haloween and what do people do during Halloween and we watched some halloween videos about trick or treat. The children and teachers were all dressed up and we went around the preschool to do trick or treat. The children really enjoyed the activity and they got majskrokar in the candy bag to eat as treat. Later on in the afternoon we had the Halloween fika together with the parents and the children got to taste the bakeries from each group and the parents. We had a great party celebrating Halloween!

The following Lpfö we have been working with:

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

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

Penguins celebrating Halloween

   Halloween

This week we prepared for halloween, we made lots of bakery goods and decoration to hang all over the preschool. Today we went trick or treating, most of us dressed up but all of us went knocking on doors. We knocked and said “trick or treat”? And we got lots of nice treats in our goodie bag. We then later went back to our room and ate the goodies, while other groups came in and knock on our door, and said “trick or treat” We said treat and gave them glowing bracelets. All the penguin children got one bracelet each to put in their bags.

We later that day celebrated halloween with a fika with parents and friends, we served all our baked treats and showed them the halloween video of the day.

Purpose

To celebrate Halloween

Lpfö Revised 2010

• Develop their curiosity and enjoyment,as well as their ability to play and learn
• Feel a sense of participation in their own culture and develop a feeling and respect for other cultures.
• Develop their creative abilities and the ability to convey impressions,thoughts and experiences in many different forms,such as play,pictures, song and music.

Penguins celebrating chemistry day

Celebrating chemistry day

Today we celebrated chemistry day with two trays filled with baking soda and three cups filled with vinegar and food coloring. All the children had pippets, they got to fill it with color and drop it in the tray. It started to fizzle in different colors and all the children said “wow”. It was a fun and exciting experiment. Everyone kept saying WOW all the time, it was wonderful.

Purpose

Celebrating chemistry day

Lpfö revised 2010

Develop their understanding of science and the physical phenomena as well as simple chemical process.

Develop their curiosity and enjoy, as well as their ability to play and learn.

                        

Flamingoes: Chemistry Day

Chemistry Day

Germs Germs Go Away and Fizzing Eye Balls Experiment!!!

For Healthy living and Chemistry Day we have been discussing what germs are, where they are found, how germs spread and how we can get rid of them. We also made our very own vanilla soap bars!!!

The children collected germs samples from around the school eg from the toilet , door handle, floor and from their own washed hands and dirty hands. They carefully placed their samples in agar-filled Petri dishes. The children made predictions as to which sample will have the most bacteria/germs. We will keep the Petri dishes under observation for a few days and see if our predictions match our final results!!!

To show how germs spread, the children rubbed hand lotion together with the glitter ( pretend germs) on their hands. In this way, they could visually see how germs spread. We used paper to wipe off the germs but it didn't work so well. The children then washed their hands with soap and water and all the ‘germs’ was washed away.

To show that germs don't like soap and water, we sprinkled some pepper(germs) into the water. The children dipped their soap-covered finger into the middle of the peppered water. They were amazed to see the soap repelled away the pepper( germs).

Finally we made our very own vanilla fragranced soap bars with cornstarch ,oil,liquid soap, vanilla essence and food coloring!!!

They also loved the fizzing eyeball experiment with vinegar and baking soda!!!

Purpose:

To learn about Germs and understand importance of maintaining their own health and well being.

To build their curiosity and be able to investigate, observe, make predictions and compare results

To be able to measure dry and liquid quantities

Connection to Lpfö:

Develop their understanding of science, relationships to nature, and also simple Chemical processes.

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

Cockatoos - Weather Change

We saw different pictures with types of weather and we named them.We also looked through the window to check the weather for today and sang "Weather song" and "Mr Sun song".

Children's interest: All the children were curious to discover in the pictures the sun, cloud, rain, rainbow, snow and pointed their favorites.They enjoyed singing the songs and copying their funny actions.

Purpose: To introduce the idea of weather change according to different seasons.

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

Mathematics-peacocks

                         

Activity: Montessori math- tactile numbers and number rods.  The children worked with numbers and quantities through multi-sensory exploration. 

Purpose: To develop the children's awareness of quantities and numbers.  

Connection to the Lpfö:  the preschool should strive to ensure that each child.....

 develop their understanding of basic properties of sets, quantity order and number concepts

Ducklings: Sense of Touch, How it Feels…

We did a sensory activity about hands. The children were presented with different types of materials: feathers sponge, sandpaper, furs, wood piece and cotton. This trained their sense of touch and they learned about the feelings of bumpy, hard, soft, very rough, spongy, scratchy, furry, smooth and fluffy. The children liked the activity and all the children tried to feel everything. This is also part of our activity of the week: all about my hand according to our IPC Unit All about Me- My Body.

The Lpfö we have been working with:

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

To develop their use of spoken language, vocabulary and concepts.

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

Penguins Hair activity

Adding hair to our face pictures

We all had a picture of our faces but now hair, we talked about the different colors that we have on our heads and that we wanted to add hair to our pictures. All the children one by one picked the color of yarn or twigs that they wanted and and glued it on their face picture. It turned out really good, one child wanted to have blue felt so he got it. He got very satisfied.

Purpose

To recognize their hair color and to develop their creative abilities

Lpfö Revised 2010

• Develop their creative abilities and the ability to convey impressions,thoughts and experiences in many different forms, such as pictures.

Kiwis-Yoga

One of our main focus areas is healthy living. Kids were stretching their bodies in different directions in order to make elephant. They were good at following the teacher's instruction, and they had great fun too.

Purpose:

-To maintain their body healthy.

-To know about yoga and how we can use our bodies in different directions.

Lpfo:

- 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.

Flamingoes: Odd and Even Number Activity

Today the Flamingoes learned about Odd and Even numbers using Montessori Maths Method. The children were asked to put the number cards in order from 1 to 10. Then they counted the correct number of lego pieces and matched the quantity to the number cards.

The children were shown that some numbers have friends/partners( pairs) and some don't. The numbers which end up with a friend/partner are even numbers and the ones that don't are  odd numbers.

Purpose:

To reinforce the knowledge that each number is made up of separate quantities.

To learn the sequence of numbers and number recognition

To learn how many separate units go to form each number

To learn about odd and even numbers

Connection to lpfö:

Develop their understanding of quantity, order and number concepts.

Cockatoos - Seasons change- Observing leaves colors

We went in the park and observed trees leaves and their colors that started to change.We noticed that the green turns into yellow, orange and brown.

Children's interest: All our children were excited to gather leaves and tel us their colors.

Purpose: To observe nature and its changes according to seasons change.

LPFO: Develop their curiosity and enjoyment, as well as their ability to play and learn.

Skeleton Puzzle

The peacocks had a great time participating in the skeleton puzzle activity. It's was an opportunity to teach the children about the skeletal system by having the children break-up into groups and choose a friend and have their body traced with tape on the floor. Once the child's outline was created the children were asked to place the bones in their appropriate place.

The children helped one another and communicated beautifully with when deciding where the bones belonged.

Purpose:

To teach the children about the skeletal system.

Lpfö:  "develop their ability to distinguish, explore, document, put questions about and talk science."

Penguins outing

Fun time at the park

Today we went for an outing to the park with the red bus from school. We went to the small central park behind the preschool. To motivate the children to use their gross motor skills and also to have fun at the same time.

Everyone had a fun time running around,sliding and playing in the sand box.

Purpose

Develop their gross motor skills

Lpfö Revised 2010

• Develop their motor skills. Ability to co ordinate, awareness of their own body,as well as an understanding of importance of maintaining their own health and well-being.
• Develop their curiosity and enjoyment, as well as their ability to play and learn.

Ducklings- Five Senses: Smell with Your Nose

We made these Sense of Smell Swatches as part of our Five Senses learning activity. The kids loved to feel and smell the different boards and swatches as it gave them hands-on tactile objects to explore and manipulate. Swatches for smelling: Rose petals, sichuan pepper, coconut flakes, black pepper, coffee, cinnamon and tea leaves. The children got to know that we smell with our nose and there are different kinds of scents from those swatches.

The Lpfö we have been working on:

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

To develop their acquire and be able to differentiate shades of meaning in concepts, see interconnections and discover new ways of understanding the surrounding world.

Kiwis- Children rights

Article 24:

You have the right to the best health care possible, safe water, nutritious food,, a clean and safe environment, and information to help you stay well.

We showed the kids two different kinds of food and water ( clean/ dirty water, good/ bad food). We asked the kids to try to eat and drink from both kinds. They refused to drink the dirty water or to eat the bad food. On the other hand they drank the clean water and tasted the good food.  We explained to them that everybody and every child in the whole world has the right to get clean water to drink and good food to eat, as well as safe environment in order to be healthy and grow strong.

Purpose:

- To learn about children's rights.

- To know that everyone has the right to drink clean water and eat good and healthy food.

- To know how we maintain our body healthy, strong, and energetic. 

Lpfo 98:

Develop their motor skills, ability to co-ordinate, awareness of their own body, as well as an understanding of the importance of maintains their own health and well- being.

Flamingoes: What is blood made of?

What is blood made of ?

We used water beads( red blood cells), ping pong balls(white blood cells) , water (plasma) and red paper strips( platelets) to demonstrate the various parts of blood in a fun and hands on way. The children explored for a while then we talked about the different parts of blood. It was a great sensorial experience for the children!!!!

Teacher:What is blood made up of?

Child :White blood cells and they are like police men!!!

Teacher: Why is heart so important for us?

Child : Heart pumps blood to different stations in our body

Child :It is like a pumping machine

Teacher: What is the liquid in blood called?

Child :Asma , plasma

Purpose:

To learn about the function of heart, what blood is made up of and how we can keep our heart  healthy

To develop interest in Science and the human body

To build their curiosity through exploration and hands on experience 

Lpfö 98

To develop their understanding of Science and awareness of their own body

To develop their understanding of the importance of maintaining their own health and wellbeing.

Penguins Montessori math

Big and small

   

Today we had a math activity by introducing BIG and small objects, the children got to touch the objects (toys) and compare the sizes. We also talked about the shape circle, that we sit in a circle for activities and making a circle using our hands.

Purpose

Develop early Mathematics abilities 

Lpfö revised 2010

Develop their understanding in shapes,location and direction.

Develop their ability to distinguish and express and use mathematics concept 

Ducklings Eyes Art Crafts

We introduced eyes to the children and different colors of eyes everyone in the classroom has. Then the children were given different colors of construction paper in eyes’ and eyeballs shapes so that the children used the glue sticks to paste them together as an eye. The children found this activity very interesting and very colorful, and a lot of the children were very proud to show the eye craft when they were done to the teachers and their friends and used the phrase to say: “my eye”. Material used: colored construction paper and glue sticks.

The Lpfö we have been working on:

To 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.