Flamingoes: Fish Mosaic Art

In the Art Room the flamingoes painted recycling material and cardboard cut in the shape of a fish .They added some orange lentils  to give the finishing touches to the fish mosaic art !!! 

To add to the ocean creatures scenery , the children also made jelly fishes by

coloring on the paper plates and finishing it off with different colored crepe paper.             

They decorated paper plates fish with pom poms, beads and straws and made amazing designs and patterns on them!!! They really enjoyed decorating the paper plates fish and creating the fish mosaic art!!!

 Purpose:

To learn about the different habitats.

To develop awareness about the environment

To build vocabulary and learn new words.

To develop fine motor skills

Connection to the Lpfö:

Develop their knowledge of plants and animals

Develop their creative abilities and the ability to convey impressions in many different forms such as play, pictures,song , drama and music

Ducklings Carrots Senses Play

When we were introducing the vegetables, the children got chance to see different kinds or real vegetables by seeing, touching, feeling and tasting them. Last Wednesday the children were divided into two groups: one group were reading in the library while the other group were in the water room doing carrots sensory play, then the two groups exchanged activities. The children were developing their different senses through touching and squeezing the carrots in different forms: a whole carrot, carrot in slices, mashed carrot as well as carrots in different shapes (circle, square and triangle), and they enjoyed the sensory play very much!

We have been working on the following Lpfö goals:

To develop their cognitive skills.

To develop their ability to listen, reflect and express their own views and try to understand the perspectives of others.

To develop their sensory skills.

Cockatoos

We used the hairdryer with supervision to melt snow that we collected from the outside. 

The children saw how snow becomes water and melt. They all had fun seeing the end result!

Purpose:

To explore the properties of water and snow.

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Develop their ability to explore. 

Penguins Carrot sensory activity

Carrot sensory activity

Today we were in the 5 senses room, and we talked about the different things you can do with the vegetable carrot. We had different plates with chopped,sliced and cut out pieces of carrots, some of the children had the finely chopped carrots in their hands and squeezed out the juice of the carrot and tasted it, it tasted a bit different from the whole pieces of carrots.

All the children touched and tried to taste everything, it was a fun and new experience for them.

Purpose

Develop their senses.

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• Develop their creative abilities and the ability to convey impression, thoughts and experiences in many different forms.
• Develop their curiosity and enjoyment, as well as their ability to play and learn.
• Develop their ability to try listen and understand the spoken language,put questions and communicate with others.

Kiwis - Snow activities

We took the snow inside the building and learned how difficult it is to drive in the snow. We used our toy cars for this activity. 

We made various shapes like tower, snow man in the snow and color those with food coloring. 

We left the snow in the cup for half an hour and observed what happens to the snow inside. Some of the kiwis were really good in telling  us about melting.

Children's interest in the activity: All the children learned in a fun way about snow and took part in the activity with joy and serious involvement..

Purpose: To give the children a basic idea about snow and learn about weather and physical changes.

Connection to Lpfö: 

“Develop their curiosity and enjoyment, as well as their ability to play and learn.”

“ Develop their motor skills. Ability to co-ordinate, awareness of their own body…”

Flamingoes: Ocean Animals

For our theme  houses and homes the Flamingoes started to learn about animal habitats. This week we have been learning about ocean animals. We read the book "Commotion In The Ocean" by Giles Andreae and the children loved listening to the story. We also acted out the whole story using face masks from the story. The children enjoyed role playing and learning the song of the story. 

Purpose:

To learn about the different habitats.

To develop awareness about the environment

To build vocabulary and learn new words.

Connection to the Lpfö:

Develop their knowledge of plants and animals

Develop their creative abilities and the ability to convey impressions in many different forms such as play, song and drama

Cockatoos- firetruck activity

Cockatoos have been talking about fire safety and firefighters this week for our ipc theme: sand and water.  Currently we have been talking about jobs that work with water. What better way then to do one of our favorite cockatoo activities: paint. We made firetrucks with our faces on it, two wheels, and we even added a ladder.  They had fun putting the pieces together.

Purpose: to create a firetruck and personalize it with our pictures.

Lpfö: to develop their creativity

To develop their listening skills