Cockatoos- making Rangoli

This week we focused our “lets pretend” theme on India. With teamwork the Cockatoos made a Rangoli in the front yard with chalks.

– Rang, meaning colour and Aavali meaning creepers or lines. Rangaavali, or Rangoli, as we call it today, thus, literally translates into ‘coloured lines’ and that is what it essentially is – lines drawn in colour – inside or outside the house. It could be a celebration of a festival, an expression of happiness, a sign of welcome, a symbol of cleanliness and purity… but all it is, essentially, is lines of colour.

Purpose

Developing a curiosity and understanding of the traditions of India

Connection to Lpfö98

Develop their ability to distinguish and explore and put questions to life.

Penguin- Art & Sensory

The penguins have been working on a jungle collage, in line with their theme Animals. We have been exploring what a jungle is, which animals can be found in a jungle and the type of environment.

We spoke with the children as a group, exploring the different things we have learnt during the theme. The children were able to suggest things we could add to the jungle collage, and choose different materials we could use. 

The children were able to be creative in building the collage, training different fine motor skills and abilities. We also collected materials from nature and talked about the different textures.

Peacocks letter t

Jolly Phonics

Every day we discuss the letters the children learn from Magda.

We talk about how to make words, recognize sounds and connecting the sounds with the right letter symbol.

Today the children wrote the small and capital letter t. We already practiced the letter with our whole body, by moving our arms to make a t, writing in shaving cream, in the sand and with our finger on paper. The last step is to hold the pencil and write it on paper.

Lpfö:

* Develop an interest in the written language and an understanding of symbols, and communicative function

* Develop their ability to listen, reflect and express their own views and try to understand the perspectives of others

Sense of touch

As our theme of the week is,Dragon and the Princess we followed the dragon's footsteps to find his hidden eggs and his pearl treasure deep in the sea. We scratched the sand pretending to be dragons.

Purpose: to learn more about dragons.

To work on our senses.

Lpfö : develop their creative abilities in many different forms usch as play, pictures.

Flamingoes : Fun with Shapes

 FLAMINGOES

In the Maths and Construction Room , the flamingoes learned the names of 2D shapes and used these shapes to make 3D shapes like prisms, cubes...They decorated and counted the number of faces of  the 3D shapes .It was a great interactive learning experience for the children. 

Purpose:

To help the children develop their mathematical skills and have fun in doing so.

To learn that 3D shapes are made up of many 2D shapes

To learn the correct names for 2D shapes

To develop their creativity

 Connection to lpfö: 

To develop their mathematical skills and an understanding of quantities and measurements and shapes.

Ducklings Science Experiment: Leaping Dolphins

Last thursday we had circle time and talked about the ocean animal dolphins as well as singing the animal songs. Later on, we made a leaping dolphin with a CD, strings, tissue box, cardstock, scissors, glue, paper, tape, cord and two plastic water-bottle caps. The children were participating the whole procedure of making it, they helped to glue and tape as well as holding the string and put the CD inside the tissue box and stabilize it. At last, we finally successfully got a leaping dolphin and when you pull the string and then the CD will start turning and shifting so it made the scene of the dolphins on the CDs moving and swimming in the blue see painted on the tissue box! All the children showed their smile when they saw such a scene after their group work!

We have been working on the following Lpfö goals:

To develop their cognitive skills.

To develop their creative skills.

To develop their ability to build and create using different techniques and materials.

To develop their early science skills.

 

Science, Drama and Pretend

Science, Drama and Pretend:  

Kiwis group pretended to be caterpillars and butterflies. We crawled like caterpillars and flew like butterflies.
We learned that caterpillar makes a cocoon around his body and later grows into a butterfly.
Purpose:  To make the children understand about pretend play and give them knowledge about simple scientific phenomenon.
Lpfo:

“Develop their understanding of science and relationships in nature, as well as knowledge of plants, animals, and also simple chemical processes and physical phenomena.”