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.”

            Fika and pretend play in a cake shop

For This activity we sat up a cake shop in the gym, where kids enjoyed buying fika using fake money and coins in order to buy real fika (cookies which they baked the day before, fruits, and sugar free saft). The kids enjoyed that time where they could buy real fika as it is in the real cake or coffee shop. After they enjoyed their fika, they had a free time, pretending as they sell and buy fika to each other. Everyone enjoyed.

Purpose:

• To learn about different rules inside different kinds of shops.
• To know that  if we need to buy something, we need to pay first.
• To develop their social and communications abilities.
• To help them to improve self-esteem, and able to express themselves through playing.

Lpfö 98 revised 2016:

The preschool should promote play, creativity and enjoyment of learning, as well as focus on and strengthen the child's interest in learning and capturing new experiences, knowledge and skills.

Flamingoes Stem Challenge: Science , Technology , Engineering And Math

Flamingoes Stem Challenge: Science , Technology , Engineering And Math

We read the story of Three Billy Goats Gruff . Later the children were asked how the Billy Goats Gruff would be
able to get across the water if there was no bridge.After a session of brainstorming, they had come up with a
myriad of ideas! In order to help the goats across, they decided upon building a boat.

They were given an array of different materials and could choose whichever they wanted to create the boat.
With a little help, they designed and constructed their boats.

After completing their boats , came the fun part of testing and finding out if the boats would float or sink?

The children really enjoyed the activity!!

Connection to Lpfö:

Develop their ability to reason, build, create and construct using different techniques, materials and tools

Penguins Story circle time

Tippen hjälper till

In the afternoon we had story reading time, we read a book about a dog who helps his mother clean the house. The book was so interesting that each child sat and looked through the book.

Purpose

To listen to a story

Lpfö

•  develop their curiosity and enjoyment, as well as their ability to play and learn,
• develop their ability to listen, reflect and express their own views and try to understand the perspectives of others

Mathematics: Baking animal shape cookies

We baked some animal shaped cookies using flour, butter and sugar substitute. The children learned about  counting, measuring quantity/amount and also learned about different shapes. Pouring different ingredients in a bowl and them mixing them together, rolling the dough and cutting in different animal shapes helped them to develop their muscle control and eye-hand coordination. It also helped them to develop pride and confidence in their abilities and as well as motivated them to work in a team for their social development.
The children also got chance to eat the cookies in the afternoon for snacks. They were so excited and motivated during the whole activities.

Purpose:
To develop their early Maths skills as well as social and physical development.

Lpfö: 
Develop their understanding of space, shapes, location and direction, and the basis properties of sets, quantity, order and number concepts, also for measurement, time and change.

Yoga In The Park

Veenu is a yoga instructor brought from India by the Indian Embassy of Stockholm to spread the yoga practice in Sweden.  We are lucky in that she will be joining us once a week to teach the children yoga.  This particular week, the peacocks and flamingos participated in yoga in the park.  The children were very attentive and determined to try all of the poses.  

Purpose: 

to develop the children's self control and body awareness

to develop the children's ability to follow directions

Connection to the Lpfö: 

The preschool should strive to develop each child's: 

motoric, coordination and understanding of their bodies as well as an understanding of the importance of taking car of their health and well-being. 

Entry Point of IPC food

We had one week as our entry point for our IPC  Food theme. Our entry point has been divided into different parts during the week. We had fun play in water with toy and real fruits and vegetable. Kids had a chance to differentiate between real and toy food by taking bites. Our second part was during our outing to the grocery shop in order to look at different kinds of food like vegetables, fruits, protein, milk products, bread, etc. Meanwhile, we had face time with the rest of the group who were watching us on the TV screen from the preschool. We also had fun picking up potatoes from the yard of the preschool. Later on we baked them together with some carrots. We had pretended shopping in the lunch room, by using real and toy food items. After the shopping we made salad out of different vegetables that we shopped during the pretend play. Everyone was happy and excited to eat the baked potatoes and the sallad we made.

Purpose:

• To introduce our IPC food in an interesting way.
• To know different kinds of food.
• To motivate our kids to learn more about food.
• To develop their language and communication skills.
• To develop their cognitive skills.

Lpfö 98 revised 2018:

“The preschool should promote play, creativity and enjoyment of learning, as well as focus on and strengthen the child's interests in learning and capturing new experiences, knowledge and skills”.

                    

Cockatoos: Entry point -food

Welcome back!

We started our academic year with activities for our Entry point with the theme food. one of the activities was in the lunch room. 

We created a supermarket! The kids were playing and pretending that they were buying food. Some of them ate the food before paying 😹

Lpfö

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

Flamingoes IMotion Movie Project

ICT : IMotion Movie Project

Flamingoes enjoyed listening to the story of ” Three Billy Goats Gruff”.

We will be doing an ongoing iMotion movie project to retell the story using props.

The children will be developing their storytelling and story comprehension skills!

And they also learned how to use the imotion app. A fun way to combine ICT and storytelling skills!

Penguins Circus

Entry Point: ANIMALS UNIT

To introduce the animals theme we set up a circus tent where the children

were invited for a circus game.

A clown introduced all the animals in the circus.

We had a mini theatre where a sheep came to visit us.

The children played, touched and felt the animals and placed

them in three different areas: air, water, land.

PURPOSE:

To introduce various animals through fun visual and censorial activity.

LPFÖ Revised 2018

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

WELCOME BACK!

FALL 2018

Hello and welcome back Näsbypark preschoolers!  We are really looking forward to an exciting year with the exciting IPC theme...."Let's Pretend".  

Our Entry Point: 

To kick off the Let's Pretend unit, the children were encouraged to bring their favorite books and dress up as their favorite character from the story.  We had LOTS of Elsas, a Vaiana, transformers, batmans and a boy from Ghana.  The children participated in a character fashion show to show off their costumes.  The also took turns taking about their favorite stories.  This term we will use stories as the base of our Let's Pretend theme.  We will be targeting language and literacy skills in both Swedish and English.  The children will develop their story comprehension skills by being able to identify important story grammar components, sequence a story and retell stories to their friends.  We will also do a lot of play and act out the stories we have read.  Fun times to come!!