Cockatoos - Baking for Lucia celebration

We prepared Lucia event by baking pepparkakor, bullar or pepparkakshus and learning songs in different languages.
Children's interest: All the children were curious and joyful to help preparing, mix the  ingredients and make different pepparkakor shapes.
Purpose: To learn about traditions through baking and songs
LPFÖ: Feel a sense of participation in their own culture and develop a feeling and respectfor other cultures

Cockatoos - Nobel Peace Project

We celebrated Nobel Day by having our own project about Peace. We Skype with different countries sending our love and peace, singing and dancing or showing them our craft. You can see here our Peace balloon were children made hand prints on.We then shared the peace ball from one another with calm and peace in mind  learning also to work together as a big group too.
Children's interest: They all were very excited to paint their hands and make hand prints on the ball but also to share it to one another.they were curious to find out the meaning of Peace word and happy to say it.
Purpose: To learn about Nobel day as a tradition through making a project.
LPFÖ: Feel a sense of participation in their own culture and develop a feeling and respect for others cultures.

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