cockatoos- Boule in the park.

Playing Boule in the park. Cockatoos played traditional Swedish ball game in the park.

We had a lot of fun!

Lpfö98- Develop their gross motor skills.

Peacocks

Toy day

Peacocks May 2015

Every last Wednesday of the month the Peacocks have toy day. They can bring a toy to school to share with the other children.

In small groups the children played with a board game, other children held a race with their racing cars and another group played with small dolls and ponies.

The purpose of having toy day is to encourage sharing with others. Also children get to know new toys and learn to play together.

Lpfö:

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

* Develop a respect for their immediate environment

* Develop their self autonomy and confidence 

Math: Triangle shapes as Teeth of a Crocodile

As we have been developing the kids interests on the wild animals, we found they are really interested in crocodiles especially the crocodile songs! So we chose the crocodile as the last wild animal we talked about this term as an end! We talked about the shape triangles as well as reviewing what we have learned about the crocodile, how does it look like and what kind of environment the crocodiles live in . Then, we counted many small pieces of triangles as teeth on a crocodile face and later on, each child got their chance to put on a piece of triangle on a green letter A crocodile as the sharp triangles teeth of it! The ducklings children were so good at this, and they can also pronounce the word crocodile and teeth by repeating the teachers!

We have been working on the following Lpfö goals:

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

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

Kiwis - Sorting fruits and vegetables

We had Garden week and we identified fruits and vegetables.Then we sorted those out in two groups.

Purpose: To learn sorting, give the kids basic idea about gardening.

LPFO: Develop their ability to use mathematics to investigate, reflect over and test different solutions to problems raised by themselves and others.

Flamingoes: African Neclaces

The flamingoes have started to prepare for the Summer Party.As the summer party has African theme, the children are designing their own African costumes.They made african Masai necklaces by coloring and decorating the paper plates with beads and buttons. 

Purpose: 

To learn different techniques for art and develop their creativity

To develop their fine motor skills.

To learn more about different cultures, their costumes, songs, festivals and dances

Connection to lpfo

Develop their creativity 

To develop their fine motor skills

Cockatoos- Using Ipad

This week has all been about Technology.

One of the activities during the week was go to the park and take pictures with the Ipads. 
We split into 3 groups and we went in a scavenger hunt where the cockatoos took pictures with the Ipad and help each other as a group. They had to take a picture of a tree, flowers, sand, toy,slide and cloud. Cockatoos enjoyed the activity!!

Purpose

To use the Ipad like a tool for their learning and curiosity

Connection to Lpfö98

To develop their abilities to construct using different techniques tools and materials

To explore how simple technology works

Kiwis- Calendar time

We counted the days and we talked about month of May.

Purpose: To learn using the calendar and counting days until the present day.

To learn about months of the year.

LPFÖ: Developing their mathematical skill in putting forward and following reason.