Ducklings: Pineapple senses experienment in 5 senses room

On Wednesday we had the circle time in 5 senses room and water room in two small groups. Then the two groups took turns to do two activities. One was to do an activity on mashing a well ripened pineapple, blended  and chopped pineapple. The children were shown the different changes in processing a pineapple, we did the sensory of  the three activities of the pineapple. They can feel the soft or hard pineapple and talk about it. The hard one can be used for chopping and the soft can be used for mashing or blending.  We have also talked about the skin and why we need to peel it before eating . Then, we chose the one we liked to taste. The children loved eating the pineapple!

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 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.

Senses exploration on fruit orange

Last week we had the circle time in the 5 senses room as well as explored different senses on the theme of the week fruit orange! We did two activities: the first activity was to feel the different forms of orange: they touched the orange peel in small pieces, tasted the orange fruit pieces, and drink the orange juice! while the other activity was gooey sensory play with cornflour/cornstarch made by orange food colouring and water so the children can see, touch and feel it. They enjoyed the sensory play and some even tasted it!

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.