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.