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.

Kiwis- Swedish Circle time

We have Swedish circle time twice a week. We asked the kids to pick one cards on their own choices and then we sing in Swedish. Each child has the opportunity to participate and get to learn new words and rhymes in Swedish.

Purpose:

- To learn new words in Swedish.

- To have the opportunity to show their interests.

- To develop their social skills.

Lpfo 98:

Develop their spoken language and vocabulary in Swedish.

Flamingoes: Funny Bones Activity

For our theme Super Humans ,the Flamingoes are now learning about what is inside our bodies. Today we learned about the skeleton and why it is so important to us!!!

The children explored the different parts of a real human size skeleton. They matched the different bone names to the correct part on the skeleton . They also had fun feeling and moving the different parts!!

The children also pretended to be doctors and took X-rays of the different parts of their “patients’ bodies”. They also had fun matching the real pictures to their X-rays. Lastly we all danced to the ‘Skeleton Dance’ song.

Purpose

To learn the importance of a skeleton for our body

To learn the names of the different bones

Lpfö 98

Develop their understanding of science and awareness of their own body

Celebrating the International peace day

International Peace day

Today we celebrated the international peace day by watching a short song video about peace for children. Our peace activity was a peace and love tree,

we traced our hands in different colorful papers and cut them out so that it looked like two hands making a heart. All the children took their own hands and glued it on a tree branch.

Everyone had a great time,some even traced their feet so it looked like a peace bird.

Purpose

Celebrating a tradition

Lpfö Revised 2010

• 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.

Ducklings: Pom Pom Drop Math

We learned about colors and sizes by having a “pom pom drop” activity. The children were presented paper rolls in different colors painted by themselves earlier. They tried to pronounce the words of colors first, and then we presented them different sizes of pom pom balls in different colors. We used them for an experiment: dropping different sizes of pom pom balls through the paper rolls. The children got to learn to sort the colors as well as learning that not all the sizes can go through the rolls. It was a fun learning process. The children were excited about this activity. Some of the children can sort the colors well, and they were curious to drop different sizes of balls in the rolls to see what would happen.

The Lpfö we have been working on:

To 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.

To develop their mathematical skill in putting forward and following reasoning.

Cockatoos - OUTING/PreJollyPhonics

Pre Jolly-General sound discrimination “Make a picnic”we played a listening game using big ears.During the picnic we heard water pouring in the cups, when cutting fruits, noise when we eat them, when we talk, wind,cars passing on the road, bicycles, etc; we encouraged kids to name what they heard around.

Children's interest: All the children were enthusiastic during the activity.They had fun but also focused their attention on listening.

Purpose: To train listening skills and make them aware of sounds in the environment .

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

Peace Day Celebrations

Flamingoes - International Day Of  Peace

To celebrate World Peace Day and a sense of togetherness and unity,  the Flamingoes and Peacocks made a peace sign in the big field!!! We have been doing various activities to highlight the importance of peace. The teachers also performed a puppet show to show the children the impact of hurtful actions and words, as well as, how we can help by our kind gestures and words to create peace and unity. We also took the opportunity  to talk about bullying and how we can stop it with a three step approach.

Purpose:

To develop a sense of unity and cooperation

To understand the meaning of Peace and its importance.

To learn about different traditions and celebrations.

Connection to Lpfö 98:

To develop openness,respect,solidarity and responsibility

To develop the ability to cooperate in different kinds of situations

To understand rights and obligations as well as take responsibility for common rules

The Penguins celebrating olympics day

Celebrating

The olympics

Today we celebrated the olympics on the grassfield at central park, we had circle time together with Ducklings,cockatoos and kiwis groups. After all the singing we had yoga together with easy steps suitable for the young ones.

We later divided the groups and everyone had their own activity planned out for today.

We penguins had a mini obstacle course with cones that the children had to go around,hula hoops that the children had to jump in and a tunnel where they had to crawl into and when they came out kick a ball.

They all did amazingly good and was really proud of themselves.

Purpose

Celebrating olympics day

Lpfö revised 2010

• Develop their motor skills. Ability to co-ordinate,awareness of their own body.
• Feel a sense of participation in their own culture and develop a feeling and respect for other cultures.
• Develop their curiosity and enjoyment, as well as their ability to play and learn.

Kiwis real experience of caterpillar in a cocoon

Our theme of this school year is Changes. 
The story of The Very Hungry Caterpillar is one of our main tools to get our kids understand and know the meaning of Changes. After we have read that story, we showed the kids how the caterpillar ,that they found in our preschool yard, has build a cocoon around herself. They saw that part in the story and then in the real life. They were so excited 😆and wondering when is it going to change into a butterfly?🤔 We explained to them that, it needs some days in order to change into a butterfly then they can see it in real. 

Purpose:

-To learn about the life cycle of the butterfly.

-To learn new vocabulary and terms.

-To improve the kids' interests and curiosity.

Lpfo 98:

* Develop their understanding of science and relationships to nature, as well as knowledge of animals and plants.

* Develop their use of spoken language, vocabulary, and concepts.

Ducklings: Olympics “Tug of War” !

On Sep 15th we had Futuraskolan’s Olympics 2016 in the central park. The ducklings children were singing songs together with penguins groups and did also Yoga positions together with all the other groups in the preschool. Later on, we started our Olympics activity this year: “tug of war”. We prepared three ropes with different colors and lengths, and we talked about the rules of the game first. Then the children chose to play the game in pairs or in groups. The children were a bit shy at the very beginning when we did in pairs; however, after we tried to play in groups and divided them into two teams, the game became very fierce! The children participated on each side tried their best to pull the rope to themselves and the boys team finally won! We did several times later on and they just loved it. It was a great activity which they got to practice their motor skills and to cooperate in a team! At last, we also did parachute activity with all the children!

Purpose:

Develop gross motor skills

To learn about different  traditions and celebrations

To develop  team building skills

The Lpfö we have been working on:

To develop their ability to function individually and in a group, handle conflicts and understand rights and obligations, as well as take responsibility for common rules.

To 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 Olympics Day

Flamingoes Olympic Day 2016

When we arrived at Ostermalm IP, we started the Olympics with the opening  parade. We  warmed up by doing some yoga exercises. We played several games, obstacle courses race with cones and tunnel, hopping race and loops toss, balance the ball on the spade, sack race, backward race, hold the ball team race, tug of war, color sorting game and more!!!

The children also received their Olympic medals for their great cooperation and team spirit!!!. 

Purpose:

Develop gross motor skills

To learn about different  traditions and celebrations

To develop  team building skills

Lpfö 98:

Develop their motor skills. Ability to coordinate,  awareness of their own body as well as an understanding of the importance of maintaining their own health and well being.

Cockatoos - Jolly Phonics Story for "p,n" sounds

We learned about the sounds "p,n" through listening a story using pictures and toys.

Children's interest: All our children were curious to see what is happening in the story.They were paying  attention to the  sounds and they were doing the  funny actions after the teacher.

Purpose: To make them aware of letter sounds.

LPFÖ:Develop an interest in pictures, texts and different media, as Wall as the ability to make of, interpret and talk about it.

Cockatoos - OUTING - Activity for entry point " Changes" unit

”Touch and feel” - we explored texture change enjoying  being in the nature and using the sense of touch:

with hands we felt tree trunks that are rough with bear feet we felt soft grass and  rough sand; we played in the rough swing made of rope

Purpose: To practice body awareness. 

Target LPFO:

Develop their gross 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.

Ducklings Marking Art: Body Tracing Activity

This week we are so excited to start our first art activity for the new term! We had done an art activity about “My Body” which is called body tracing. This is a part of our IPC Unit “All about me”-- my body. We pasted two big pieces of white butcher paper that suit the children’s body and chose two children and let them lie down. Then the teacher traced the children’s body with a marker. Later on, all the children decorated the portraits as desired with  crayons, felt, fabric scraps or decorative papers, etc.  They really enjoyed the activity and had a lot of fun. We will pick two children per week to lie down and have their body traced for all the ducklings children to decorate!  

The Lpfö we have been working on:

Develop their motor skills.

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.