Ducklings: Burger Art Craft

Last week our food of the week is "beef and burger". We made an art craft of a big beef burger with vegetables inside as a group work. The children were given a chance to review what we have learned about vegetables as well as connecting the knowledge they’ve already learned to the new ones. The children’s hand and eye coordination and fine motor skills were trained while they were using the glue sticks, pipe cleaners, soft colored paper, yarn, fabrics, construction paper in different shapes, pasta and spaghettis.

We have been working on the following Lpfö goals:

To develop their creative abilities and the ability to convey impressions, thoughts and experiences in many different forms, such as play, pictures, song and music, dance and drama.

Ducklings Onion Sensory Activity

We did a sensory activity with vegetable red and yellow onions. We started first with introducing different forms of onions: in small pieces, slices, a quarter, a half and a whole onion. Then the children were practicing peeling the onion and some of them even tasted the onions and liked it :-). We have also introduced an onion song to the children and they enjoyed singing along with the teachers and using their body languages!

We have been working on the following Lpfö goals:

To develop their ability to listen, reflect and express their own views and try to understand the perspectives of others.

Ducklings: Cabbage art craft

We introduced the vegetable cabbages by showing flashcards, videos and in real. We did an art activity of drawing a nature picture with cabbages leaves, sponges, and water colors as the background. The children enjoyed using the sponges as well as using their bare hands to paint colors on the construction paper, and later they put cabbage leaves into red color to make stamp in trees’ shape which were pasted on the construction paper later on as a nature picture with blue sky and green grass as background.

We have been working on the following Lpfö goals:

To develop their creative abilities and the ability to convey impressions, thoughts and experiences in many different forms, such as play, pictures, song and music, dance and drama.

Ducklings, Art: Making a Funny Potato Face

As we introduced the vegetable potato by learning a new song: “one potato, two potatoes”, we encouraged the children right after that to make a potato face according to the image of a real potato. The children were given pipe cleaners, soft paper, googly eyes, filt and a big piece of brown paper. Then we did an art activity by decorating with all these different materials, and it finally became a big funny potato face. The children enjoyed this activity!

We have been working on the following Lpfö goals:

To develop their creative abilities and the ability to convey impressions, thoughts and experiences in many different forms, such as play, pictures, song and music, dance and drama.

Ducklings Math and Baking: Learning about Colors and Amounts of Tomatoes and Baking Tomato Pizza

We had circle time in the construction room by singing good morning songs and vegetable songs with the penguins. We showed the children different kinds of tomatoes (normal tomatoes, plommon tomatoes and cherry tomatoes), differ in their colors and sizes. The children also got the chance to practice counting as well as learning about colors and quantities of the tomatoes. Then we went downstairs in the dining room to make pizza with different kinds of tomatoes. Each child got the chance to touch and taste the different tomatoes and put the tomato pieces on the top of pizza dough. They have also a lot of fun tasting the tomato sauce as well.

We have been working on the following Lpfö goals:

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

Ducklings Art: Making Circles with Cucumber Pieces and Green Water Color

We introduced cucumber by showing flashcards and videos last monday, and listened to the new cucumber song. For the art activity we did cucumber and carrot stamping painting with cucumber and carrot pieces. We learned the colors orange and green and the children used both orange and green water colors to paint on a piece of hard paper by stamping big and small circles with the vegetables. The children loved touching the vegetables and colors as well as drawing with them!

We have been working on the following Lpfö goals:

To develop their creative abilities and the ability to convey impressions, thoughts and experiences in many different forms, such as play, pictures, song and music, dance and drama.

To develop their motor skills.

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

Ducklings Carrots Senses Play

When we were introducing the vegetables, the children got chance to see different kinds or real vegetables by seeing, touching, feeling and tasting them. Last Wednesday the children were divided into two groups: one group were reading in the library while the other group were in the water room doing carrots sensory play, then the two groups exchanged activities. The children were developing their different senses through touching and squeezing the carrots in different forms: a whole carrot, carrot in slices, mashed carrot as well as carrots in different shapes (circle, square and triangle), and they enjoyed the sensory play very much!

We have been working on the following Lpfö goals:

To develop their cognitive skills.

To develop their ability to listen, reflect and express their own views and try to understand the perspectives of others.

To develop their sensory skills.

Ducklings Science: change of colors

Last thursday we did a science activity by dyeing white fluffy balls (cotton wool) and ‘playmais’ with purple and green food colouring, to see the change i.e. how the material soaks up the colour, turning a normal white object into a grape! All the children were sitting nicely and so focused on during this activity and they also loved touching and observing the change of color of the white objects into dark green and purple color. Finally, we put all the colored balls on a piece of paper and put on green leaves as a bunch of grapes!

We have been working on the following Lpfö goals:

Develop their understanding of science and relationships to nature, as well as knowledge of plants, animals and also simple chemical processes and physical phenomena.

Develop their ability to listen, reflect and express their own views and try to understand the perspectives of others.

Ducklings Maths:Counting with Plastic Fruits

Last tuesday the ducklings children got the chance to practise counting from 1 to 3 with plastic fruit toys. We set up a black board there with construction paper, “dots” and “number” flashcards to show the amount from 1 to 3. We first practiced counting with dots and numbers and then we put certain amounts of fruit toys under the dots and numbers accordingly. The children were very excited when they saw the fruit toys and that reminded them of eating the real fruits! They had also a lot of fun by coming into the front and pasted the fruits under the correct numbers and dots with the help of the teachers!

We have been working on the following Lpfö goals:

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

Ducklings Early Science Activity: Planting Black Eyed Bean Seeds

Last thursday in the science room, the ducklings children took turns to plant their very own black eyed bean seeds in small cups. (marked with their name on each cup). They children got the chance to feel the seeds by touching  as well as smelling the soil. Hopefully, in a few days we will get the beans and we will of course always observe together with the children to see how the seeds grow every week!

We have been working on the following Lpfö:

 

To develop a respect for all forms of life, as well as care for their immediate environment.

To develop their ability to coordinate, awareness of their own body, as well as an understanding of the importance of maintaining their own health and well-being.