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Cockatoos Garage band

We were  working with Garage band app. for do more interactive our learning, The kids choose the music and them they played with the iPad. When they finished we used for week Imovie and we send to the parents.

They enjoyed a lot with the iPad and created the music.

LPFÖ: To develop their ability to identify technology in everyday life, and explore how technology works. 

Playing together with the Ipad and learning to take turns : ) 

Science-Cockatoos

How certain foods can change.

We were working with finding out about how certain foods can change.

We talked  to the children first and find out how much they know.

We asked them how to make an ice cube, what happens

when you boil pasta or an egg, what happens when you leave ice-cream

out in the sun, etc.

Then we gave them the opportunity to experience of some of these changes.

Making Jelly, ice cream and Bread!

The kids really like to make food and experiment all these changes :)

LPfÖ:

Develop their ability to distinguish, explore,document, put questions about

 and talk about science.

  

          

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

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

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. 

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.

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.

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. 

Art Exhibition and market day - Cockatoos

ART EXHIBITION AND MARKET DAY 

Cockatoos were working during a lot of weeks for prepared  the art exhibition. We used like our exit point and showed to the parents the different area of animals that we were working with.

They could see the crafts that the cockatoos did it. We also prepared an imovie with green 

 green screen for them with different animals habitat. They could also could enjoy a fika together and a second hand market. Parents and kids were enjoyed together and it was very nice to see how the kids were showing everything that they did it to their parents.

LpfÖ

 

To develop their identity and feel secure in themselves. 

Egg hunt

Easter celebration 

We had our egg hunt!! the kids were very exciting with the activity running and finding easter eggs!
We had an amazing sunny day and they could found all th eggs!! Good job cockatoos :)
After the activity they where very tired.
Purpose: 
To teach them new traditions.
To work in group, they learned to cooperate while they where trying to find the eggs.
LPFÖ
feel a sense of participation in their own culture and develop a feeling and respect for other cultures.

IPC animals_The savanna

Wild animals (Savanna)

We want to teach to the kids about the savanna. We showed to the cockatoos about Africa savanna. We wanted to Introduce to the kids where is the savanna and which animals live there. The kids used animals  stickers and they pasted on the world map in the lunchroom.

with this activity the kids could the develop their cognitive skills and they learned to place where is Africa

Lpfö

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

Cockatoos - Math Day - Playing with colors and shapes

    We celebrated Math Day involving snow, water and ice in our play. Children learned about the process of turning water into ice and backwards and revised colors by mixing water with different colored paints; they watched this process  during the day.
     We also used paints to trace shapes in the snow that children followed with the finger.

Children's interest: All the children were very curious to play with favorite colors and to watch from time to time if their cups content turned into ice. It was an fun experience to trace shapes in the snow too and name them or following with the finger. They made remarks about cold snow, round shape, yummy ice cream and so on.

Purpose: To revise colors and shapes.

LPFÖ: 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.

Goldilocks and 3 bears activity

IPC : animals 

 Goldilocks and the 3 bears

During the week we were working with the story of "Goldilocks and the 3 bears" we used for learn sizes. The kids really liked it the story. Using the story we did an activity in the art room. 

Th kids were playing with the play dough and use it for make the story. We printed some templates in relate with the story and the kids were using the play dough for put on the templates and finish the draw. 

Purpose: 

What we want with this activity is that the kids use the play dough to model the story. In that way the could reflect about the story. 

To train their fine motor skills and their sensory skills working with the play dough.

To develop their creativity creating new things with the play dough.

LPFÖ

Develop their creative abilities and the ability to convey impressions. 

Develop their ability to reflect. 

Develop their understanding of space. 

Cockatoos - Celabrating Chinese New Year

The Cockatoos group took part in Chinese New Year celebrated in the whole preschool.
We ate noodles and learned how to mix different ingredients inside the dish; we admired chinese
costumes and different items, we received a coin as a present to bring us luck for the whole year and
they practiced also yoga using traditional chinese music.

Children's interest: All the children really enjoyed the celebration so much so they continued dancing by themselves on chinese traditional music.

Purpose: To learn about traditions and internationality through chinese New Year celebration.

Lpfö:  With a mother tongue other than swedish, develop their cultural identity and the ability to communicate in both Swedish and their mother tongue.

Cockatoos - Jolly Phonics Orally cvc blending

Children started to learn about orally blending. They helped the teacher to recognize c, a, t sounds and actions.Then they put all these letters together to make a word CAT. then they played with toy cats and at the end of the session all the cats went to sleep.
Children's interest: all the children were so happy to help in recognizing the sounds and especially to ppretend play with cats.They tried to read the word with their help too.
Purpose: To be aware of orally cvc blending and use of words that we learn about.
LPFÖ: Develop an interest in the written language and an understanding of symbols, and communicative function.

Cockatoos learning with the light table

Light table activity 

Cockatoos were playing with the light table, We draw on transparency paper a elephant then, we putted on the top of the light table  were kids lighted up Elmer colors naming them.
the kids had a good time and at the same time they reflect about colors and Elmer the elephant story.

Purpose: To reflect about colors that we were working last week at the same time we wanted that they experiment with new tools this time was the light board.

Lpfö

• Develop their understanding of science
• Develop their ability to identify technology in everyday life, and explore how simple technology works
  

Cockatoos - Elmer story

The children were involved in reading Elmer story after images describing the pictures that they see in the book and naming Elmer colors. They then acted out being elephants and stomped feet or made elephant trunks.
Children's interest: They were all curious to explore the book and play pretending being elephants.
Purpose: To encourage story reading using imagination. To learn colors through a story.
LPFÖ: Develop to ability to distinguish, express, examine and use colors.
             Developo their use of spoken language, vocabulary and concepts, as well as the ability to                     play with words, relate something, express their thoughts, put questions, and put forward                     their arguments and communicate with others.

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.