Flamingoes: Chemistry Day

Chemistry Day

Germs Germs Go Away and Fizzing Eye Balls Experiment!!!

For Healthy living and Chemistry Day we have been discussing what germs are, where they are found, how germs spread and how we can get rid of them. We also made our very own vanilla soap bars!!!

The children collected germs samples from around the school eg from the toilet , door handle, floor and from their own washed hands and dirty hands. They carefully placed their samples in agar-filled Petri dishes. The children made predictions as to which sample will have the most bacteria/germs. We will keep the Petri dishes under observation for a few days and see if our predictions match our final results!!!

To show how germs spread, the children rubbed hand lotion together with the glitter ( pretend germs) on their hands. In this way, they could visually see how germs spread. We used paper to wipe off the germs but it didn't work so well. The children then washed their hands with soap and water and all the ‘germs’ was washed away.

To show that germs don't like soap and water, we sprinkled some pepper(germs) into the water. The children dipped their soap-covered finger into the middle of the peppered water. They were amazed to see the soap repelled away the pepper( germs).

Finally we made our very own vanilla fragranced soap bars with cornstarch ,oil,liquid soap, vanilla essence and food coloring!!!

They also loved the fizzing eyeball experiment with vinegar and baking soda!!!

Purpose:

To learn about Germs and understand importance of maintaining their own health and well being.

To build their curiosity and be able to investigate, observe, make predictions and compare results

To be able to measure dry and liquid quantities

Connection to Lpfö:

Develop their understanding of science, relationships to nature, and also simple Chemical processes.

Develop their ability to distinguish , explore, document, put questions about and talk about science.

Cockatoos - Weather Change

We saw different pictures with types of weather and we named them.We also looked through the window to check the weather for today and sang "Weather song" and "Mr Sun song".

Children's interest: All the children were curious to discover in the pictures the sun, cloud, rain, rainbow, snow and pointed their favorites.They enjoyed singing the songs and copying their funny actions.

Purpose: To introduce the idea of weather change according to different seasons.

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

Mathematics-peacocks

                         

Activity: Montessori math- tactile numbers and number rods.  The children worked with numbers and quantities through multi-sensory exploration. 

Purpose: To develop the children's awareness of quantities and numbers.  

Connection to the Lpfö:  the preschool should strive to ensure that each child.....

 develop their understanding of basic properties of sets, quantity order and number concepts

Ducklings: Sense of Touch, How it Feels…

We did a sensory activity about hands. The children were presented with different types of materials: feathers sponge, sandpaper, furs, wood piece and cotton. This trained their sense of touch and they learned about the feelings of bumpy, hard, soft, very rough, spongy, scratchy, furry, smooth and fluffy. The children liked the activity and all the children tried to feel everything. This is also part of our activity of the week: all about my hand according to our IPC Unit All about Me- My Body.

The Lpfö we have been working with:

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

To develop their use of spoken language, vocabulary and concepts.

To develop their ability to distinguish, explore, document, put questions about and talk about science.

Penguins Hair activity

Adding hair to our face pictures

We all had a picture of our faces but now hair, we talked about the different colors that we have on our heads and that we wanted to add hair to our pictures. All the children one by one picked the color of yarn or twigs that they wanted and and glued it on their face picture. It turned out really good, one child wanted to have blue felt so he got it. He got very satisfied.

Purpose

To recognize their hair color and to develop their creative abilities

Lpfö Revised 2010

• Develop their creative abilities and the ability to convey impressions,thoughts and experiences in many different forms, such as pictures.

Kiwis-Yoga

One of our main focus areas is healthy living. Kids were stretching their bodies in different directions in order to make elephant. They were good at following the teacher's instruction, and they had great fun too.

Purpose:

-To maintain their body healthy.

-To know about yoga and how we can use our bodies in different directions.

Lpfo:

- Develop their motor skills. Ability to co-ordinate, awareness of their own body, as well as an understanding of the importance of maintaining their own health and well- being.

Flamingoes: Odd and Even Number Activity

Today the Flamingoes learned about Odd and Even numbers using Montessori Maths Method. The children were asked to put the number cards in order from 1 to 10. Then they counted the correct number of lego pieces and matched the quantity to the number cards.

The children were shown that some numbers have friends/partners( pairs) and some don't. The numbers which end up with a friend/partner are even numbers and the ones that don't are  odd numbers.

Purpose:

To reinforce the knowledge that each number is made up of separate quantities.

To learn the sequence of numbers and number recognition

To learn how many separate units go to form each number

To learn about odd and even numbers

Connection to lpfö:

Develop their understanding of quantity, order and number concepts.