Turtle making out of recycled materials

Turtle craft

The children made a turtle made of egg cartons. They diy it first and we let it dry. The teacher prepared a turtle body and the children will paste it together.

Purpose:
To develop their creativity and to recycled material.

Lpfö:
Develop their creative abilities and the ability to convey impressions, thoughts and experiences in many different forms such as plays, pictures, songs, music ,dance and drama.

Yoga 🧘‍♂️🧘‍♀️

Today we  had Yoga in the drama room. They did  the yoga very well and they enjoyed  Yoga time. We  finished Yoga with Nameste. Having Yoga was  fun 😍 🧘‍♂️🧘‍♀️

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        Lpfo:


                         Develope their motor skills. Ability to co-ordinate, awareness of their own body,as
                         well a understanding of the importance of maintaining their own health and well-
                         being.
                       

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Celebrating World Down Syndrome Day

The children and teachers wear different socks in honor to celebrate the world Down syndrome day.
It’s a simple but very powerful meaning.

Purpose:
That every child should be treat same with or without disabilities.

Lpfö:
Develop openness,respect, solidarity and responsibility.

penguins feeling birds

Today we were in the forest and feed the birds. We put bird food in their houses. The children enjoyed it and they were so happy.

Purpose:

To be able to the children expose, enjoy and valde the nature.

LPFÖ:
Respect for all forms of life, as well as care for their immediate

environment.

Exploring with jaramba table🦖

Today we are in the ICT room and played with jaramba table. Kids feed the Dinosaur. They feed it with different yummy food for hungry Dinosaur. So we all  enjoyed a lot 🦖

Lpfö:
           
              Develope their understanding of technology.
              Develop their ability to identify technology.


Purpose:

              Develope their curiosity and enjoyment,as well as play and learn.

penguins toy sharing

We have a lovely day today. The children brought their own toys and shared it to everyone because sharing is loving 😍🥰❤️❤️❤️

Purpose: the importance of sharing 

Lpfö

• develop their identity and feel secure in themselves,

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

Chinese New Year celebration

This week we celebrated Chinese pig new year by painting pink plates and making them into face masks. We went into the gym where the mirror were decorated with the new year theme, Poh ling (flamingos teacher)  was dressed up and explained of how we should celebrate this tradition and showed us what all the decoration ment. Each one of us got a lucky envelope with fortune inside and a clementine. In the afternoon the  whole school ate noodles with vegetables using chopsticks.

Purpose

Celebrate Chinese new year

Develop fine motor skills

Lpfö 98 Revised 2010

• Feel a sense of participation in their own culture and develop a feeling and respect for other cultures.
• Develop their creative abilities and the ability to convey impressions,thoughts and experiences in many different forms.
  

  
  

Penguin: Learning About ICT

Learning About ICT

The children learned about some educational apps this week. With the help of some apps, they learned about counting and recognizing numbers, matching pairs and learning some words on iPad. This was really a fun educational activity for them and they enjoyed using apps and learning new things.

Purpose: 
To use ICT as one of our focus areas in children’s learning. 
To help to develop children’s knowledge and application of ICT.

Lpfö 98 rev 2018: 
Develop their ability to identify technology in everyday life, and explore how simple technology works.

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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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. 

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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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.

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.

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. 

Penguins making green screen

Making of Green screen

This week we have been working on a green screen movie for market day.
All the children participated in the movie,
some children were in the green screen and some in puppet pall.
We made a movie about planting a magical seed, and
watered it everyday until it grew so big
that we had to visit the tree with air balloons.
The tree also gave us magic flying powers, that made
us fly next to the tree.

Purpose

Making green screen movie

Lpfö 98 Revised 2016

• Develop their creative abilities and the ability convey impressions,thoughts and experiences in many different forms, such as play,pictures and drama.
• Develop their ability to identify technology in everyday life,and explore how simple technology works.

celebrating WORLD Math day

Celebrating World Math Day

Today was world math day, we celebrated this day with three fun learning activities.
We divided our group into three smaller groups to got to the three
different math stations.
First station was matching the right color ball in to the right hole,
2nd feed the mouse chocolate chip cookies while counting the cookies and
3rd putting in different lids and corks into the right shaped holes.

Purpose

Celebrating math day

Lpfö 98 Revised 2016

• Develop their understanding of space, shapes, location and direction.
• Develop their curiosity and enjoyment, as well as their ability to play and learn.

Chinese New Year celebration

Celebrating Chinese New year

Today we celebrated chinese new year. We started the morning by some of the children dressing up in

traditional chinese wear. We had wok noodles in the dining room, the children added the topping and

ate a lot, it was super yummy.

We also made drums with a picture of the year dog and the children sprinkled glitter in different colors

and as much as the wanted. It turned out very shiny and pretty.

Purpose: Celebrating a tradition

Lpfö 98 Revised 2016

• Feel a sense of participation in their own culture and develop a feeling and respect for other cultures.
• Develop their curiosity and enjoyment, as well as their ability to play and learn.