Ducklings: Making Face Art Crafts with Different Emotions

We reviewed the emotions we learned last week with flashcards and then the children were divided into two groups doing an art activity about emotions. The children were given round colored construction paper to represent the faces and also googly eyes, pipe cleaners  and colorful stickers as five senses on the face. The children made different facial emotions with the help of the teachers like happy, sad, scared, sick and surprised faces.

Purpose:

To develop their fine motor skills.

To learn about different senses on their faces (IPC All About Me: My Body)

To develop their early knowledge on emotions and emotion management.

The Lpfö we have been working wtih:

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: Sense of Touch, How it Feels…

We did a sensory activity about hands. The children were presented with different types of materials: feathers sponge, sandpaper, furs, wood piece and cotton. This trained their sense of touch and they learned about the feelings of bumpy, hard, soft, very rough, spongy, scratchy, furry, smooth and fluffy. The children liked the activity and all the children tried to feel everything. This is also part of our activity of the week: all about my hand according to our IPC Unit All about Me- My Body.

The Lpfö we have been working with:

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

To develop their use of spoken language, vocabulary and concepts.

To develop their ability to distinguish, explore, document, put questions about and talk about science.

Ducklings- Five Senses: Smell with Your Nose

We made these Sense of Smell Swatches as part of our Five Senses learning activity. The kids loved to feel and smell the different boards and swatches as it gave them hands-on tactile objects to explore and manipulate. Swatches for smelling: Rose petals, sichuan pepper, coconut flakes, black pepper, coffee, cinnamon and tea leaves. The children got to know that we smell with our nose and there are different kinds of scents from those swatches.

The Lpfö we have been working on:

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

To develop their acquire and be able to differentiate shades of meaning in concepts, see interconnections and discover new ways of understanding the surrounding world.

Ducklings Marking Art: Body Tracing Activity

This week we are so excited to start our first art activity for the new term! We had done an art activity about “My Body” which is called body tracing. This is a part of our IPC Unit “All about me”-- my body. We pasted two big pieces of white butcher paper that suit the children’s body and chose two children and let them lie down. Then the teacher traced the children’s body with a marker. Later on, all the children decorated the portraits as desired with  crayons, felt, fabric scraps or decorative papers, etc.  They really enjoyed the activity and had a lot of fun. We will pick two children per week to lie down and have their body traced for all the ducklings children to decorate!  

The Lpfö we have been working on:

Develop their motor skills.

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.