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