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. 

Penguins celebrating st.patricks day

Celebrating St. Patrick's day

This week we celebrated St. patrick's day on Thursday and on Friday. We baked green buns on Thursday they turned out to be really nice and tasty, we baked cinnamon and vanilla flavors. On Friday we made st. patricks hat and shamrock stamping using bell peppers and green paint.

Everyone had a lovely time and he all were green but happy .

Purpose

Celebrating st. patrick's day

Developing fine motor skills

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.

Penguins celebrating Vasaloppet

Penguins celebrating vasaloppet

Today we celebrated vasaloppet, we started by six of the children sitting on the red bus, the others went in pairs. We walk in a line all the way to the first flag that was in the forest. We climb up and sat down in the forest listening to the first activity. It was to collect (sticks,pinecones,leaves and stones) Everyone stood up and started to look for the things and put it in the bag.

When we were done we went to the second flag, had a circle sing time, the last flag was where we sat down and had bananas and yummy blueberry soup.

Purpose

Celebration Vasaloppet

Develop their gross motor skills

Lpfö 98 Revised

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

Penguins celebrating chinese New year

Celebrating Chinese New year  

Today we are celebrating Chinese New year by making lantern with glitter and drawing with different color crayons and pens. We also made a long dragon with a scary dragon face, where all the children drew on two A2 papers, one group drew with crayons and the other with paint, and fingerpaint. We later cut it out in stripes and glued them together to a loong dragon.

We hanged it so everyone could see it.

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.

penguins celebrating Nobel

Celebrating Nobel

Today we celebrated the Nobel by making a project video of mathematics. The children had to match the balls with the right color holes and drop it in. This activity showed how the children could match colors and also say the color out loud. We also had a feeding the shapes bags, the children got different colored shapes to put in the bags.

We got the diploma for mathematics.

Purpose

Learning about shapes,matching colors

Celebrating Nobel

Lpfö 98 revised 2010

• Develop their mathematical skill in putting forward and following reasoning.
• Develop their understanding of space,shapes,location and direction
• Feel a sense of participation in their own culture and develop a feeling and respect for other cultures

Penguins celebrating Halloween

   Halloween

This week we prepared for halloween, we made lots of bakery goods and decoration to hang all over the preschool. Today we went trick or treating, most of us dressed up but all of us went knocking on doors. We knocked and said “trick or treat”? And we got lots of nice treats in our goodie bag. We then later went back to our room and ate the goodies, while other groups came in and knock on our door, and said “trick or treat” We said treat and gave them glowing bracelets. All the penguin children got one bracelet each to put in their bags.

We later that day celebrated halloween with a fika with parents and friends, we served all our baked treats and showed them the halloween video of the day.

Purpose

To celebrate Halloween

Lpfö Revised 2010

• Develop their curiosity and enjoyment,as well as their ability to play and learn
• 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,such as play,pictures, song and music.

Penguins celebrating chemistry day

Celebrating chemistry day

Today we celebrated chemistry day with two trays filled with baking soda and three cups filled with vinegar and food coloring. All the children had pippets, they got to fill it with color and drop it in the tray. It started to fizzle in different colors and all the children said “wow”. It was a fun and exciting experiment. Everyone kept saying WOW all the time, it was wonderful.

Purpose

Celebrating chemistry day

Lpfö revised 2010

Develop their understanding of science and the physical phenomena as well as simple chemical process.

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

                        

It is the season of caring!

The Cockatoos made over 70 gingerbread cookies that we made into necklaces. Today the Cockatoos gave them to all the children in the school as part of our holiday gifts to the school. We learn that giving is just as fun as getting.

Lpfö98: The ability to take account of and empathsise with the situation of others, as well as a wilingness to help others.

Gingerbread Person

We made a group gingerbread person to celebrate Lucia Day and Christmas.

Lpfö98: To develop their creative abilities.

Thank you parents for a great Halloween Fika!

On the 31st of October we had our halloween fika. It was a great success. Thank you parents for coming and helping towards our summer party!