Chinese New Year celebration

Celebrating Chinese New year

Today we celebrated chinese new year. We started the morning by some of the children dressing up in

traditional chinese wear. We had wok noodles in the dining room, the children added the topping and

ate a lot, it was super yummy.

We also made drums with a picture of the year dog and the children sprinkled glitter in different colors

and as much as the wanted. It turned out very shiny and pretty.

Purpose: Celebrating a tradition

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• 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.

celebrating universal children's day

Universal children’s day

Today we celebrated children’s day with painting our hands in different colors and stamping it on a big construction paper. When the handprints were dried we glued our face pictures on our handprints.

We hanged out art craft on our wall.

Purpose

Celebrating a tradition

Universal Children’s day

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

Penguins celebrating Halloween

Halloween week

This week we celebrated Halloween

We baked lots of treats for the fika and we made some halloween decorations to hang up in the school. On Friday morning we had our trick or treating, most of the children were dressed up some cute and some scary that was nice to see. We started to knock on the doors asking for trick or treat, and we got lots of treats. We were also so happy to give away treats to the other groups.

In the afternoon our parents were invited to our spooky halloween fika, it turned out great and a few of the parents were dressed up too.

Purpose

Celebrating a tradition Halloween

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• 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.
• Develop their creative abilities and thoughts and experiences in many different forms.
• Develop their understanding of basic properties of sets,quantity, order and number concepts, also for measurements,time and change.

penguins celebrating Diwali

Diwali celebration

Today we Celebrated the Indian tradition Diwali, everyone helped each other to make a beautiful Rangoli flower activity. It turned out to be very nice and colorful. We used colored rice and different types of flower petals, we also had green leaves from the backyard forest. And in the end we sprinkled some glitter on top.

Purpose

To celebrate Diwali

To learn about other cultures and tradition

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• 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