Building gingerbread house

Penguins building gingerbread house 

Today we build our gingerbread house by decorating it with different color icing and chocolate chips as well as salt sticks, the children tasted everything we put on the house. It was a fun tasting Christmas activity.

Purpose

Building and decorating Christmas gingerbread house 

Lpfö 98 Revised 2018

• Develop their curiosity and enjoyment, as well as their ability to play and learn.

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Fun with Shapes And Blue Bot

Fun with Shapes and Blue Bot !

Children were introduced to an array of shapes - the triangle, square, rectangle, circle,
pentagon and diamond shapes. To reinforce the concept of those shapes, we had some
fun games in store for the children! They had to roll a dice with the shapes on each face,
and  had to measure the number of steps it would take for Blue bot to get to the shape
rolled on the dice . Subsequently, they had to program some commands for the robot
in order for it to get there!

It was a great learning experience for children, they learned both about shapes and ICT.

Purpose:

To be able to  recognise and learn the names of the different shapes

To learn how the Blue Bot works

Connection to the Lpfö:

Develop their understanding of shapes and develop their ability to identify technology
and explore how simple technology works.

Thanksgiving celebration- cockatoos

Thanksgiving celebration

In our school we celebrated thanksgiving day. The cockatoos group were in the art room and we did thanksgiving cards for say thank you about something that they want it. They painted their hands and made a turkey in a paper. They enjoy with the diferents colors that they used.

Purpose: To be involve in different cultures and celebration and work with our fine motor skills and sensory skills. 

LpfÖ: To feel a sense of participation in their own culture and develop a feeling and respect for other cultures. 

Penguins: Baking ginngerbreads (pepparkakor)

Baking Gingerbreads (Pepparkakor)

We baked gingerbreads (pepparkakor) for Lucia Fika. The children rolled the dough and made different shapes of Cookies (hearts, pigs, Christmas trees, stars, gingerbread man, elks etc.) using cookie cutter. The children learned about  counting, measuring and shapes. Some of them were very excited to recognize the shapes and tell the teachers what they were. Rolling the dough and making different shapes with cookie cutters helped them to develop their muscle control and eye-hand coordination. The activity also helped them to develop confidence in their abilities and as well as motivated them to work in a team.

Purpose:
To develop their fine motor skills.
To develop their understanding of shapes, quantity, numbers etc. 

Lpfö:
Feel a sense of participation in their own culture and develop a feeling and respect for other cultures. 

Ducklings thanksgiving cups

Thanksgiving turkey cups

 Today, we did our thanksgiving turkey cups. They glued feathers and turkey face on the cups.

Purpose

Celebrating tradition

Lpfö 98 revised

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

Thanksgiving chocolate mousse

Vegan chocolate mousse

Today we made sugar free vegan chocolate mousse, to eat as a dessert tomorrow for thanksgiving. We also made cute turkey cups to fill in. All the children glued the faces and picked their color feathers.

Purpose

Making dessert for thanksgiving 

Lpfö 98 revised 2018

•  Develop their curiosity and enjoyment, as well as their ability to play and learn

Penguins exploring insects

The activity

We put a lot of small plastic insects on a green carpet and then let the children examine them with magnifying glasses.

Purpose

For the children to learn about insects and explore how big they came out while looking throug a magnifying glass.

Lpfö:

Develop their ability to distinguish, explore, document, put questions about and talk about science

Penguins: Exploring Animals With Magnifying Glasses

Exploring Animals With Magnifying Glasses

In the science room, the children explored different toy animals with magnifying glasses. All the children got magnifying glasses and they looked to different toy animals through those glasses. They were so excited to see the changes in the size of animals when using the glasses or when not using the glasses.

Purpose

Exploring with magnifying glasses to learn to use it .

Lpfö 98 Revised 2016

• develop their understanding of science and relationships in nature,
• develop their curiosity and enjoyment, as well as their ability to play and learn,
• respect for all forms of life, as well as care for their immediate environment.

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Baking for halloween fika/cockatoos

Baking for Halloween fika with the kids

We were talking to the children about food they eat on special occasions and at celebrations. We spoken about birthdays, halloween, thanksgiving, Christmas. We baked for halloween and we are planning to bake for Lucia day also.

Purpose:The children will be able to learn about a variety of celebrations

LpfÖ: To feel a sense of participation in their own culture and develop a feeling and respect for other cultures.

The kids loved the colours of the cookies and the shapes

Room On The Broom :Story Sequencing , Learning about emotions And QR Codes

Room On The Broom

Story Sequencing , Learning about emotions
And QR Codes

The children are really excited to celebrate
Halloween and for this celebration
we selected the story “ Room On The Broom”.
The children enjoyed listening and
sequencing the pictures from the story!
Then they selected their favourite character
from the story , coloured their masks and made
them into stick puppets.

We also talked about emotions of the different
character in the story and later the
children created QR codes for the story.

Purpose:

Develop their language comprehension skills

Ability to retell the story and identify different
emotions and feelings related to the
characters in the story.

To introduce QR codes

Connection to Lpfö:

Develop their interest in pictures, texts and
different media.

Develop their ability to identify technology in everyday life.

The very hungry caterpillar-Cockatoos

The very hungry caterpillar story

We have been working all the week with the story of the very hungry caterpillar. Then the kids did an craft in the art room they created a caterpillar with their hands and then we how them that the caterpillar became in a butterfly.
they really like the activity and paint with their hands:) they were surprise about the results of their craft.

Purpose:
To show them the life cycle of the caterpillar and to work with their fine motor skills

LPFÖ:
To develop their relationship with the nature.

                                          Caterpillar

        

                                         Butterfly

Penguins: Stamping animal figures on papers

Stamping animal figures on papers

We did a fun paint play activity using different toy animals/ figures, paint and construction papers. The children chose their favourite toy animals/figures, dipped in paint and then stamped the on paper. The children were so excited to play with colours and they didn’t want to stop.

Objective:
To express themselves and develop their creativity.

Lpfö: 
Develop their creative abilities and the ability to convey impressions, thoughts and experiences in many different form, such as play and pictures.

Flamingoes: Red Riding Hood Dice Game

Red Riding Hood Dice Game

The children got to choose which character they wanted to dress up as - the wolf or the
Red Riding Hood , then throw a dice and choose a direction (right,left,forward or backwards)
and  move accordingly, to see who would get to Red Riding Hood's grandma first!
They loved the Game!

Purpose:

Develop their sense of direction and numbers.

Develop an understanding of pre coding skills.

Connection to Lpfö:

Develop their understanding of space,location and direction, quantity and number.

Math with Babblarna and food

 

Math with Babblarna and food 

We had our math day the kids like a lot Babblarna so we decided to have an activity with all the Babblarna, we connected with our theme food also.

The kids have to sort the colors with the food with Babblarna colors. Bibbi yellow, Babba brown, Dadda Green...

they really enjoy it :) 

Purpose: To listen the interested of the kids for choice an activity.

LPfö: Develop their ability to use mathematics to investigate and reflect over. 

Penguins: Fun With Yoga & Exercise

Fun With Yoga & Exercise

We did some yoga poses and other physical exercise. The children were very attentive and followed teachers’ instruction/direction to try the yoga poses and other exercises. They even got chance to ride on teachers’ back and it was so much fun for them.

Purpose:

To develop children’s self-control/balance, body awareness, and self-esteem.

To develop their ability to follow directions.

Connection to the Lpfö:

To develop children’s 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.

Kiwis- Stamping using fruits´s shapes

Stamping using fruits´s shapes          

For this activity, we wanted to focus on kids´ creativity as well as to learn how to make nice art out of daily use materials and food items too. They had different kinds of real fruits. They were able to choose their own colours and paint the half of the fruit and stamp it on a white paper to see the result. Kids loved to use different colours and some of them were mixing colours to make nice piece of art. During the activity, kids showed their interests by choosing their favourite fruits and colours too.

Purpose:

• To develop their creative ability.
• To improve their learning of different fruits and colours too.
• To develop their language and vocabulary.

Lpfö 98 revised 2016:

“Develop their creative abilities and the ability to convey impressions, thoughts and experiences in many different forms, such as pictures, song and music, dance and drama”.

The Red Riding Hood Sequencing

Activity: 

Over the past few days we worked on sequencing the story of Little Red Riding Hood.  As the children became more familiar with the story, they were able to sequence the story and narrate what was happening in each picture.  

Purpose: 

• develop reading comprehension skills
• develop sequencing skills
• develop understanding of ordinal language (first, next and last)

Connection to the Lpfö-

The preschool should strive to see that each child develops....

his/her intrest written language and understanding of symbol and how they are used to convey information

Penguins - Pre JollyPhonics / Listening Ears Animals Sounds

  We introduced awareness of sounds all around us by playing” Listening Ears” game.
We heared better this time the real farm animals sounds: rooster, hen, chicks. The children also touchen every one of these farm birds in toy shape or on a touch and feel book.

Children’s interest: All the children were curious about the unusual sounds that they hear.Along the week they even copyied the way the animals speak like: cockle-doodle-doo, cluck/cluck, tweet/tweet.

Purpose: To introduce farm animals sounds through feeling, visual and especially auditory skills.
LPFÖ: To develop an interest in pictures and understanding of sounds.

Flamingoes: Story Sequencing Activity

Three Billy Goats Gruff Sequencing

Activity:

While reading the story ,Three Billy Goats Gruff , we worked on the children’s abilities to
sequence and retell stories.  We focused on ordinal language: first, next and last and story
grammar components: characters, problem and solution.  The children coloured pictures,
put their story in order and took them home to read to their parents.

Purpose:

• Develop the children’s early literacy skills

Connection to the Lpfö:  

Förskolan ska ge varje barn förutsättningar att utveckla….

“intresse för berättelser, bilder och texter i olika medier, såväl digitala som andra,
samt sin förmåga att använda sig av, tolka, ifrågasätta och samtala om dessa,”

Coclatoos-class coffe

Class Cafe

We set up a class café.Children  made menus, set up tables, took orders and serve meals. They made bills, took money and gave change.

Cockatoos group was very involved with the activity and the enjoy a lot.

Purpose:

To work together and understand what a bakery is working.

Lpfö

Develop their curiosity and enjoyment, as well as their ability to play and learn.

Kiwis- Jolly phonics drawing snakes on the sand

                                Jolly phonics                    

One of our main focus area is Jolly phonics. For our age group kids need to learn the sounds and
the action through a story telling. We had 3 weeks as sounds awareness, where kids were listening to
different sound inside and outside the preschool environment. This week, we have started our Jolly
learning by telling a story included the first two sounds which are (s & a). To improve their learning
of these sounds, we had related activities like colouring pictures of items start with s and a. During our
outing, we had an opportunity to draw snakes on the sand while making the s sound. Many kids were
able to draw snakes and say the sound too.

Purpose:

• To learn about jolly phonics sounds.
• To develop their language and listening skills.
• To work on their fine motor skills.

Lpfö 98 revised 2016:

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

Knowledge harvest - Food

Knowledge harvest

Area: Language and Nature

Skills: cognitive skills

We had the knowledge harvest of our theme, We were asking the kids if they
know the difference between fruits and vegetables.
We also asked if they know where the food come from like the milk, apple,
potatoes. The cockatoos group also tell us colors of the food and names that
they knew.

Purpose: To see how much the kids know about our the new theme food.

Connection to the LpfÖ-98(revised 2010):

To develop their use of spoken language.

To develop their understanding of science and relationships to nature.

Red Riding Hood Hide and Seek

Activity:

For the past week or so, we have been reading the story Little Red Riding Hood. We have read Swedish and English versions. The children acted out the story of Little Red Riding hood, by dressing up as the characters and playing hide and seek in the forest.  Everyone was very eager to have turn to be the wolf.

Purpose:

• reinforce learning of story grammar (i.e., characters and setting) of a story in a fun and interactive way
• develop pretend play skills

Connection to the Lpfö-

“I lek får barnen möjlighet att imitera, fantisera och bearbeta intryck. På så sätt kan de bilda sig en uppfattning om sig själva och andra människor. Lek stimulerar fantasi och inlevelse. Lek kan också utmana och stimulera barnens motorik, kommunikation, samarbete och problemlösning samt förmåga att tänka i bilder och symboler.”