Obstacle course - Kiwis

To reinforce many important skills, we set an obstacle course in our front yard with cones, hula hoops etc.The children followed the instructions and took turns to complete the obstacle course. Everybody had so much fun.
Purpose: To work on their listening skills.The most important aspect of completing an obstacle course is being able to listen to and follow simple directions. To work on their fine and gross motor skills.

Lpfö: "Develop their motorskills.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: Celebrating Earth Day

For Earth day, we talked to the children about Nature and Earth and had an activity to celebrate it. The Ducklings made Earth representations using round paper plates and they also glued small pieces of green and blue construction paper on it. The children loved it and their art was a success!

Purpose: To learn about Nature, Earth, recycling.

Lpfö: 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.

Cockatoos - The Very Hungry Caterpillar Show

We introduced the concept of * life cycle* through a puppet show having the base in The very hungry Caterpillar story.We used stick and hand puppets and we had fun by following the story and interracting  with the characters.

Purpose: to learn about the life cycle of a butterfly

LPFÖ: Develop their interest and understanding of the different cycles in nature, and now people, nature and society influence each other.

Flamingoes: World Water Day

Flamingoes: World Water Day

For the World Water Day, the children learned about the importance of water and the water cycle. To show the concept of evaporation and significance of water, the children observed and weighed some fruits and vegetables. We left them by the window sill in the sun for a day. The children made predictions as to what will happen to the the food items and why?

The next day the children observed that the appearance have changed. They have dried up and the size of the fruits and vegetables have decreased a considerable amount!!!! We weighed them again to confirm our findings.It made them think what will happen to us if we don't get water for a day or two and how important water is for us.

Purpose:

To teach the children about water cycle and its importance.

Connection to Lpfö 98-reviderad 2016:

Develop their understanding of the different cycles of nature and how people, nature and society influence each other.

Flamingoes : Raindrops Experiment!!!

Raindrops Experiment

We did a simple fun experiment to show the children why it rains. The sponge represents the clouds which got heavier and heavier as the children took turns to drip water into it.

The children had a blast squirting the water out and wondering who would  be the first to make the water drip from the sponge! It was also a simple way to explain to the children the rain concept. 

We then went on to ask the children how we can save water and some replied by saying that we could collect the rainwater into buckets and reuse it! 

Purpose:

To teach the children about water cycle and its importance.

Connection to Lpfö 98-reviderad 2016:

Develop their understanding of the different cycles of nature and how people, nature and society influence each other.

Cockatoos - Planting grass seeds

“Green Grass” we planted grass seeds in plastic glasses using soil and water: we listen to   I’m a Little Flower Seed song

Children's interest: All our children were very excited to dig in the soil and fill their own cups with it.They planted then grass seeds and watered them asking a range of questions about the activity.

Purpose: To learn about spring activities and how the plants grow.

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- water drop

This summer party Will be one of the sourcesof donation for clean water to people in need of clean water. We are working with our kids to learn and understand about the importance of water for our life. Every week we are planning one activity relaterad to water. One of the activities, Kids have been asked to fill a drawing of water drop with blue colored water drops. Kids enjoyed filling the water drops. After that, we asked the kids to blend the sounds that form word water. They tried well.

Purpose: 

1- To know about water, its uses and its importance for us.

2- To develop their hand- eye coordination.

3- To develop their learning of Jolly Phonics.

Lpfö 98:

Develop their undestanding of science and its relation to nature.

Develop their fine motor skills.

penguins washing hands

Water day

This week we made purple and blue raspberry soap. The next day we showed the importance of how to wash our hands and why, and how to save water when washing hands. We rubbed in the soap and rinsed it out with water. Everyone had their turn to wash their hands using our soap that we made, the washed away all the yucky germs on their hands.

Everyone had a fun, clean and learning week.

Purpose

Keeping our body healthy from germs

Lpfö 98 Revised 2016

• Ability to co-ordinate awareness of their own body, as well as an understanding of importance of maintaining their own health and well being.

penguins making tulips stamping

Tulips stamping

Today we introduced spring by having an art activity of tulips. We used forks, our finger and different spring colors. We dipped the fork into tulips color and stamped it on a card, and later dipped our finger into green paint to make the stem and leaves of the tulips.

It turned out to be very pretty and a perfect gift for our parents.

Purpose

Introduce spring

Develop their fine motor skills

Lpfö 98 Revised 2010

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

IKT and JOLLY PHONICS

 

Activity:

The children practiced identifying intial sounds and segmentation of words by finding images that started with each target sound.  Once they identified a word, they typed the word into the computer, requiring them to use their segmenting skills to identify the individual sounds of the word.

Purpose: 

• Provide an opportunity for the children to explore technology 
• Practice Jolly Phonics sounds and segmenting skills

Connection to the Lpfö 98- revised 2016

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

• develop an interest for written language as well as an understanding for symbols and their meaning.
• develop their ability to identify everyday technology and explore how simple technology works