Cockatoos- Amazing Race

We had the amazing race today instead.  We started with some blueberry soup and bananas for energy. We then went from the backyard to the front yard to the parking lot and then to the forest and then finished in the backyard again! We had an amazing time racing about finishing our tasks. Great work today cockatoos!

lpfö98- To develop their gross motor skills.

Kiwis - An outing

Kiwis, went to the forest and had their morning snacks there. We had a lot of fun collecting cones and twigs. Later, we sorted these out. We explored the forest while singing songs.

Purpose: to train gross motor skills and spend some time with nature.

Lpfö: 

"Develop their motor skills. Ability to coordinate, awareness of their own body......"

Peacocks-Caterpillar with lids

Peacocks

A very hungry caterpillar!

We talked about recycled materials and how we can use them in different creative ways eg to make beautiful wall art, hanging curtains, lamp shades.. For our theme changes we thought it would be great if we could make the hungry caterpillar and butterfly mural with the plastic bottle caps. Then we began to collect plastic bottle caps and when we had enough bottle caps we started with our project.

During the months of January and February we have been busy making a caterpillar with the children. Firstly we started painting the cardboard and the lids green.

When all the lids were green and the paint dried, the next group of children glued on all the lids on the green oval cardboards. This was a lot of work but the children really got the hang of it. They had to use perception of area, use the right amount of glue and they came up with the layout for the caterpillar.

When all the green parts were done the children painted the last big cardboard and lids red. This would be the head!

Hanging up the caterpillar was a bit tricky. The children made the shape of the caterpillar and we used velcro to keep it on the wall.

As finishing touch the caterpillar got legs and antennas.

Lpfö:

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

* Develop their creative abilities and the ability to convey impressions, thoughts and experiences in many different forms

* Develop their understanding of space, shapes, location and direction, and the basic properties of sets, quantity, order and number concepts, also for measurements.

Ducklings Explored the Nature in the Forest

Last Friday we had the pink and purple groups in ducklings going outing in the forest near the back yard. The children were having a great time sitting in the forest and having apples and rice cakes as snack, later we also walked uphill and explored the forest by sitting on the rocks and picking up tree branch. The children were having fun walking and climbing.

Penguins- Where do animals come from ?

We talked about different continents. Also about the animals come from different continents.                  

Lpfö. Developtheir understanding of natue as well as animals.develop their ability to explore

FLAMINGOES-Science

Progressing further with our theme of 'changes', the children were made familiar with the 'Life cycle of the butterfly'. Before proceeding with this activity, a quiz was held first at the circle time where the Flamingoes were asked to name the different stages of the hungry caterpillar story. Next plastic models of 'life cycle of butterfly' were used to make the children more familiar with the different stages in the butterflies life cycle. A video related to this was also shown along with a rap rhyme which was enjoyed by the Flamingoes a lot! The Flamingoes were then given construction paper divided into four parts, elements of butterflies life cycle and were asked to glue them in the correct order!

PEACOCKS-animal life cycle

For the changes theme the Peacocks made their own customized butterfly life cycles on paper plates. We read the book “The Hungry Caterpillar” . After that the children were divided into 3 groups and each group made each stage of the butterfly life cycle.

The children made a caterpillar by gluing colored styrofoam to popsicle sticks. They made cocoons by gluing yarn to styrofoam eggs. Finally they made the symmetrical butterflies by pouring drops of paint on one side of the paper and then folding it to reveal beautiful symmetrical patterns. They used the pipe cleaners to make the body for their butterflies.

LPFÖ: Develop their interest and understanding of the different cycles in nature.