Flamingoes: Food Pyramid Activity

The Flamingoes have been learning about healthy living and the different categories of food that make up the food pyramid. We took a trip to the grocery store and talked about healthy and unhealthy foods. Later, they were given pictures and items of foods which they have to sort and put into the correct category in the food pyramid.

Purpose :

To help children learn the food groups.

To learn the importance of having a balanced diet and acquiring good eating habits.

To learn to sort and classify.

Lpfö revised 2016 :

Develop their awareness of their own body, as well as an understanding of the importance of maintaining their own health and wellbeing 

Ducklings: Matching colors

We played a color matching game in the Construction Room. The students were given pom-pom balls, beads and crayons of different colors and given the task of matching each object to cups of the same colors.  They had a great time! 

Purpose: To develop their early math abilities.

                    To develop their motor skills. 

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.

Penguins skyping

Penguins using skype to communicate

Today we learned how to skype with another group, it was very exciting to see all the children’s face reactions. We used the ipad to call to the other group that was in another room.

Purpose

To communicate

To learn new technology

Lpfö 98 Revised 2016

• Develop their ability to identify technology in everyday life,and explore how simple technology works
• Develop their interest in pictures,text and different media, as well as the ability to make use of, interpret and talk about them

Peacock's Trip To The Museum

Activity

This week the Peacocks went to the museum to see the Human Body exhibit.  The children were able interact with the exhibits and demonstrate what they have learned thus far in our IPC theme, Super Humans.  The children were amazing on the trip there and back and appeared to enjoy their time at the museum.  

Purpose: 

To provide the children with the opportunity to demonstrate what they have learned thus far in our IPC theme, Super Humans in an interactive setting.

Connection to the Lpfö 2016

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

• develoop and understanding of maintaining their health and well-being
• develop their curiosity and enjoyment, as well as their ability to play and learn

Flamingoes Valentine's Day Celebration

Valentine Day Celebration 

We started our day with a game “Don't break my heart”. The children had to pass a tissue paper heart back and forth using a clothes pin without breaking the heart. Another favorite game of the day was “ Heart Lava” The children had to move across the room using two heart cutouts and without falling in the lava!!! Lastly they got to make their very own paper plates Valentine crowns and giveaways hearts for friends and family!!!

Purpose:

To learn about different celebrations.

Connection to Lpfö98 Revised 2010:

Develop a feeling and respect for other cultures

Cockatoos - IPC: Day and Night Chart

We learned about day and night and what animals or other things we can find during these parts of the day. We made a chart in black and blue and our children took their turn to pick up pictures by their choice.They named them and place them in the appropriate place on the chart: Day or Night with teachers help.

Children's interest: all our children were involved in the activity and they were excited to recognize the owl, the  sun, bee or the moon placing them in the right spot.

Purpose: To introduce day and night concepts through pictures.

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

Ducklings: Valentine's Day

For our Valentine's Day activity, the children got red pieces of paper each that were folded into cards. They decorated the cards border with glitter, confetti and other shiny craft materials. They were super enthusiastic about it and the card frames turned out great! Later on we had their pictures printed and placed in the middle of the card. The children had a great time and loved surprising their parents when they came to pick them up!


Purpose: To develop their creativity and early fine arts ability.

Lpfö 2010:
Develop their creative abilities and the ability to convey impressions and experiences in many different forms, such as play, pictures, song and music, dance and drama.

Penguins celebrating Vasaloppet

Penguins celebrating vasaloppet

Today we celebrated vasaloppet, we started by six of the children sitting on the red bus, the others went in pairs. We walk in a line all the way to the first flag that was in the forest. We climb up and sat down in the forest listening to the first activity. It was to collect (sticks,pinecones,leaves and stones) Everyone stood up and started to look for the things and put it in the bag.

When we were done we went to the second flag, had a circle sing time, the last flag was where we sat down and had bananas and yummy blueberry soup.

Purpose

Celebration Vasaloppet

Develop their gross motor skills

Lpfö 98 Revised

• 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.
• 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.

Kiwis

Jolly phonics (blending):

One of our focus areas is jolly phonics. After working on the single sounds, we started blending two sounds. As the picture shows, kids are learning in and on combining with real experience of in the box and on the box.

Purpose:

1- To practise blending two sounds in order to form a word.

2- To improve their learning of in and on.

Lpfö:

Develop their spoken language and vocabulary.

Develop their learning of prepositions.

Cockatoos - Math: Revising 2D shapes circle, oval, triangle

 

We remind 2D shapes like circle, oval, triangle in a fun way.We painted them with PINK our color of the week and then we pasted them on a piece of paper saying their names one by one.

Children's interest: All our children were very happy to use painting  for this activity and remind the shapes easily by playing.

Purpose: To revise some 2D shapes like oval, circle, triangle.

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

Lego Math

Lego Math

Activity: 

The children worked on developing their math skills by matching quantity to numbers.  They also used the quantity towers to develop their basic subtraction skills.  

Purpose:

to develop the children's ability to match quantity to number and introduce the concept of subtration

Connection to the Lpfö-98

The children should strive to develop their understanding of space, shapes, location and direction adn the basic properties of sets, quantity, order and number concepts.

Penguins using technology

Printing our friendship hands

This week we talked about how to be friends and what you do to keep friends. We had a tea party with our friends, we gave edible gifts and today we printed out our hands. Two by two stood beside the printer and put their hands on the print screen and the children pressed the green button. Some of the children were curious of what just happened, some said wow, and took their printed hands out of the printer. It was very exciting to visit the computer room and use the printer.

Purpose

To develop their use of technology

Lpfö 98 Revised 2010

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  Develop their understanding of science and relationships to nature,as well as knowledge of plants, animals and also simple chemical processes and physical phenomena.
• Develop their creative abilities and the ability to convey impression and experiences in many different forms.
• Develop their curiosity and enjoyment,as well as their ability to play and learn.

Cockatoos- learning blue color

We introduced Blue color through an water activity.We used two types of colors and our children choose coloring food to color the water naming them.

Children's interest: Everybody was very excited and curious to see how water changes its color.

Purpose: To learn blue color through visualize it and  comparing it with another color.

LPFÖ: Develop their understanding of science and relationship to nature, as well as knowledge of plants, animals, and also simple chemical processes and physical phenomena.

Kiwis

One of our main focus areas is healthy living. This time we took group of our kids to the nearby Library. We used the bus to there. The kids enjoyed their time by Reading and exploring different books. We teach them the rule of special places like liberay. They were very good at following the rules and listening to the teachers' instructions. 

Purpose:-

1- To Know aboout the rules of specific places.

2- To develop their curiosity of exploring new books, places, and trying different axciting ways of learning new things.

3- To develop their social, and communcation skills.

Lpfö:-

" Develop their motor skills, spoken language and vocabulary".

"Develop an interest in pictures, texts and different media".

Flamingoes: Chinese New Year Celebration

Chinese New Year Celebration

To celebrate the Chinese New Year the children were given a presentation of what it is and how it is celebrated.

This year is the year of the rooster and there are in total 12 animal years and it follows a full 12 year cycle before the year of the rooster comes on again.

We talked about the traditions and culture, the decorations, the special food the Chinese eat (just like one does for Christmas, Thanksgiving, Diwali etc), about the tea ceremony, the lucky red envelopes (Hung Bao) and other fun stories of the  Chinese Zodiac . The children were also shown typical decorations, couplets, red packets, costumes etc. They also watched a short video clip about the Chinese New Year and also the dragon and lion dances, which they thoroughly enjoyed. One of the short stories is called Fortune Tales/ The story of Chinese New Year.

After the presentation, the children were all given a lucky red ‘Hung Bao’ and they were absolutely delighted.

Later on, the children made their own Chinese dragons and they had great fun playing with them!

 

Purpose

Learn more about different cultures and traditions 

To know more about similarities and differences in each other's lives and to respect each other's individualities.

Connection to Lpfo

To develop the ability to accept responsibility and respect for each other's culture and traditions.

Ducklings: Math activity

We had circle time in Math and Construction room. We played a game called ‘Number Triangle’, where we made triangle and round shapes using construction paper. With colored sticky balls, the children had to match the round shapes on the triangle with the correct color and, finally, count how many balls were there. They were very excited about it and all did a great job! :-)

Purpose:
Develop their early math abilities.
Develop their motor skills.


Lpfö 2010 revised:
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.