Kiwis - Math Day

We counted the parts of the umbrella and put the same number of sticks with those. Some of us could recognize the number also.

Purpose: To continue practice counting, matching quantity with number and recognizing number symbols.

Children's interest: Every child liked to count colored sticks and to find the number symbols on the umbrella

LPFÖ:

Ducklings: Earth Day Celebration (Planting Trees)

Last Friday we had celebrated the Earth Day by planting trees in front of the preschool with all the groups. First the flamingos group performed an Earth song. Then the ducklings children were guided by the teachers to start planting first. We got a green pear tree and a bag of soil. We also got help from NCC gardeners with the tree planting! The children were very focused during the planting and they tried to add more soil around the tree. At last we stand around the tree and took a group picture! We also had pretend play in the drama room. The children were dressing up as spiderman, cowboy as well as different kinds of animals.

We have been working on the following Lpfö goals:

To develop their ability to coordinate, awareness of their own body, as well as an understanding of the importance of maintaining their own health and well-being.

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

Penguins drama play

Drama play

Today we had a fun afternoon, we dressed up as bob Marley's and danced around the room while singing. We also had a quiet/calm moment with nice relaxing yoga.

Purpose

To play and have fun

Lpfö Revised 2010

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

Kiwis - Circle Time

    We learned about different water vehicles like cruise, sailboat, skijet, etc. We also learned about various water sources like lakes, rivers and oceans. We showed the  pictures to children to understand it better.

Children's interest: All the children were curious to see how a river or a cruise looked like and they answered to teacher's questions.

Purpose: To learn about ocean, river, lake.

LPFÖ: Develop an interest in pictures,text and different media, as well as the ability to make use of interpret and talke about them.

Using Aurasma and the life cycle of a spider

Activity: 

In conjunction with our IPC theme, houses and homes, the peacocks have been learning about habitats.  Currently, we have learning about the rainforest.  Many of the children appear to be interested in the spiders of the rainforest.  The children used the iPads to view the different stages of the spiders life cycle and the app Aurasma helped bring the pictures to life. 

Purpose: 

To teach the children about different cycles of nature in a fun and interactive way. 

Connection to the Lpfö-98

The preschool sound strive to ensure that each child develop...

- their interest and understanding of the different cycles in nature

- ability to identify technology in everyday life and explore how technology works

Green screen

Kiwis learned how to use the green screen. We have been working about water animals and creating puppets. The children acted out themselves in the sea and pointed out the water animals. 

Children's interest : Everybody was so excited. They participated pushing keys and downloading pics.

Purpose: to introduce digital education as a tool for learning.

Lpfö : to develop their interest in different media and technology.

          To develop their creativity and imagination.

Ducklings Onion Sensory Activity

We did a sensory activity with vegetable red and yellow onions. We started first with introducing different forms of onions: in small pieces, slices, a quarter, a half and a whole onion. Then the children were practicing peeling the onion and some of them even tasted the onions and liked it :-). We have also introduced an onion song to the children and they enjoyed singing along with the teachers and using their body languages!

We have been working on the following Lpfö goals:

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

Making sand using salt and colored chalks

We gave the cockatoos salt and colored chalks. We asked them to scrub the chalk in the salt and see what is happening. They have realized that chalks colored the salt. Then they could make different designs by adding the colored sand in glass jars. They liked it and they wanted to make even more.

Purpose:

1-To know that we can make our own sand by using available materials.

2-To feel the texture of the sand.

3-To develop their ability to work as a team.

Lpfö:

Develop their craetive abilities.

Develop their ability to function individually and in group.

Develop their ability to built and creat using different techniques and materals.

Penguins Onion printing

Onion printing

This week we have been talking about onions and garlic, and today for art activity we made a onion print. We painted purple on a halved red onion and yellow on a halved yellow onion. We wanted the onion layers to get printed or stamped on the fabric that we colored last week with cabbage water.

It was a smelly activity but it turned out to be very pretty and arty craft work.

We hanged it up,and showing it off on art exhibition day.

Purpose

Develop fine motor skills

Lpfö 98 Revised 2010

• Develop their creative abilities and the ability to convey impressions,thoughts and experiences in many different forms, such as vegetables, paint and pictures.
• Develop their curiosity and enjoyment,as well as their ability to play and learn.

Flamingoes:Pipe Cleaners Challenge

The children were divided into teams and were given two basic materials…some tinfoil and pipe cleaners.  They were given the task to use their imagination and  to come up with something creative. This required the children to communicate to each other, to make a plan and work together.  Pipe cleaners and tinfoil is a fun creative tool for kids to play and work with. We encouraged them to twist them, mold them and shape them into anything they want.  The children loved the challenge and we could see their wonderful imagination and creativeness in their final creations!

Purpose:

To learn to communicate and work in a group

To build their imagination and creativity 

Connection to Lpfö:

To develop their creative abilities and the ability to convey impressions , thoughts and experiences in different forms

Develop their curiosity and enjoyment as well as their ability to learn and play

Read it, make it, write

Activity:

 The children used these Read it, Make it, Write it mats to help develop their reading and writing skills.  They worked on blending by combing sounds to form words, segmenting by identifying the individual sounds to form words and fine motor, pencil grasp and writing skills by writing each word.  The children all enjoyed the activity. 

                                              

Purpose: 

* to develop the children's ability to blend and segment words

* to develop the children's fine motor skills

* to develop the children's reading and writing skills.  

Connection to the Lpfö-98:

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

* develop their interest in written language and an understanding of symbols, and their communicative functions. 

Ducklings: Cabbage art craft

We introduced the vegetable cabbages by showing flashcards, videos and in real. We did an art activity of drawing a nature picture with cabbages leaves, sponges, and water colors as the background. The children enjoyed using the sponges as well as using their bare hands to paint colors on the construction paper, and later they put cabbage leaves into red color to make stamp in trees’ shape which were pasted on the construction paper later on as a nature picture with blue sky and green grass as background.

We have been working on the following Lpfö goals:

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.

Penguins Cabbage art craft

Cabbage art craft

This week we introduced cabbage for this week, we discussed about all the cabbages that grows, small,big different colors and shapes and the name of them as well  as what you can do with the vegetables.

Today we made a very pretty cabbage printing craft activity, we took the leaf of a cabbage and painted it red, the children got to take the leaf and stamp it on a piece of paper. When it was all dry, we cut it out and glued it on a cardboard box, (that was pre-painted as a nice background).

It became a nice cabbage tree painting.

All the children that were present had a joyful morning and afternoon with this activity.

Purpose

To learn about the vegetable cabbage and to make art

Lpfö Revised 2010

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