Flamingoes- Making the Terrariums

Flamingoes- Making the Terrariums

The flamingoes watched a short video to learn about how terrariums work, the water cycle and how we can build them . Then we made our very own terrariums!!! We first filled the jars with gravel, then the soil and seeds and finally we sprinkled some water and closed the jars. The children are looking forward to see their plants grow!!!

Purpose:  

To develop interest in different cycles in nature

Planting and caring for living things encourages discovery and a love for nature. 

To understand the water life cycle i.e evaporation, condensation, and precipitation

To instill a sense of responsibility for the environment

Connection to lpfö: 

To develop their interest in science, nature and develop love and care for the environment

Kiwis Maths activity

Kiwis learnt about small, medium and big (large). They identified various sizes of the porridge bowls and could paste those in sequence from small to big. We recapped The Three bears and Goldilocks story.

Lpfö: "develop their mathematical skill in putting forward and following reasoning."

Ducklings Math: Learning and putting different shapes on a letter "Z" Zebra

As we talked about the zebra and also that the zebra have different type of stripes shapes rectangular and triangular we also mentioned that Zebra starts with a “Z”. The children glued the different shapes onto the letter “Z”.  Each child got their turn to come in the front to pick a certain shape to paste on by themselves.

We have been working on the following Lpfö goals:

To develop their early math skills.

To develop their understanding of space, shapes, location and direction, and basic properties of sets, quantity, order and number concepts, also for measurements, time, and change.

To develop their constructive skills.

Penguins

Cockatoos- Math Day

We had our annual Futura Math Day where we celebrate by doing a series of math activities.

Lpfö98-" develop their math abilities"

Flamingoes: suncatchers

BUTTERFLY SUN CATCHERS

To welcome the beautiful sunshine, in the Art room the flamingoes made suncatchers. We first talked about what suncatchers were and what happens when the light passes through them. Then they were given templates of butterflies and flowers and they had to cut and glue crepe paper on them. They also decorated them with glitter.We displayed them on the windows of the five senses room and when the light passes through them, it creates a really interesting effect. It was a fun way to decorate and brighten up our windows.

Purpose: 

To learn different techniques for art and develop their creativity 

To develop their awareness of their environment.

To develop their fine motor skills, patience and concentration

Connection to lpfo

Develop their creativity

Develop interest in nature

PEACOCKS - caterpillars at school

Caterpillars at school

On Tuesday March 10th we received a very small package at school that came all the way from England to Sweden. In the little box was a jar with 5 very hungry caterpillars!

In circle time we spoke about the life cycle of the caterpillar and about the caterpillars in the jar. These caterpillars have food at the bottom of the jar and they need to be in a warm environment and out of the direct sun. We found a good spot for them in the art room.

Every day since we have checked on them. They have been eating a lot and the children could see the difference with a week ago. They are growing and growing and hopefully they will go into metamorphosis soon.

Lpfö:

* Develop their interest and understanding of the different life cycles in nature

* Develop their understanding of science and relationships to nature, as well as knowledge of plants and animals