Ducklings: Friendship Color Mixing

We had Circle Time in the Gym. We introduced two new jolly phonics sounds “W” and “X”. We counted who was present with the Ducklings Family Tree by putting apples flashcards on the tree with the children’s pictures. Later on, we introduced the meaning of “Friends”, who we love to spend time with, to help as well as to cooperate with. Then we had an art activity called “Friendship color mixing”: every two children made a pair and chose a color to paint their hand with. They mixed the color with their friend’s color on the hand to create a new one. Finally they used the new color to create hand prints on a big piece of white paper. All the children had a lot of fun while playing and helping each other as well as learning about the color theory.

Purposes:

To develop their creativity skills

To develop their early science skills

To develop their ability to work in group

Lpfö:

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

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

Ducklings: Pom Pom Drop Math

We learned about colors and sizes by having a “pom pom drop” activity. The children were presented paper rolls in different colors painted by themselves earlier. They tried to pronounce the words of colors first, and then we presented them different sizes of pom pom balls in different colors. We used them for an experiment: dropping different sizes of pom pom balls through the paper rolls. The children got to learn to sort the colors as well as learning that not all the sizes can go through the rolls. It was a fun learning process. The children were excited about this activity. Some of the children can sort the colors well, and they were curious to drop different sizes of balls in the rolls to see what would happen.

The Lpfö we have been working on:

To 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.

To develop their mathematical skill in putting forward and following reasoning.