Ducklings: Making Face Art Crafts with Different Emotions

We reviewed the emotions we learned last week with flashcards and then the children were divided into two groups doing an art activity about emotions. The children were given round colored construction paper to represent the faces and also googly eyes, pipe cleaners  and colorful stickers as five senses on the face. The children made different facial emotions with the help of the teachers like happy, sad, scared, sick and surprised faces.

Purpose:

To develop their fine motor skills.

To learn about different senses on their faces (IPC All About Me: My Body)

To develop their early knowledge on emotions and emotion management.

The Lpfö we have been working wtih:

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

Penguins making stick puppets

Stick puppets

This week we introduced emotions with different colors to the children, yellow is happy, red is angry, blue is sad, purple is scared and green is disgust/blah. Everyday we talked and made the different emotion faces and compared them to the colors.The children made small teddy stick puppets,by choosing the color and emotions. For some children the choose the just the colors but for other they said eg. “Yellow=Happy” so the picked their colors.

They all added glue on the colored felt and stuck on the stick so that it looked like a teddy stick puppet. We are going to use the puppets together with teachers puppets that we made, and having puppet show expressing the different emotions.

Purpose

To understand the emotions and comparing it to the colors

Lpfö Revised

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

Cockatoos - Spray green color in the snow

We had fun playing with green water color in the snow learning this way to recognize it better.

    Children's interest: All the children enjoyed the activity and used spray color everywhere in our backyard.

   LPFÖ: Develop the ability to distinguish, express, examine and use mathematical concepts and their interrelationships.

Mathematics

Mathematics: kiwis had to match the number written on the mother fish by putting same number of baby fishes. Everybody took part in this activity.

Purpose: to develop their early math skills.

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

Ducklings Halloween Celebration

During the Halloween week we did a lot of activities to celebrate this Festival. We first introduced to the chlildren what is Haloween and what do people do during Halloween and we watched some halloween videos about trick or treat. The children and teachers were all dressed up and we went around the preschool to do trick or treat. The children really enjoyed the activity and they got majskrokar in the candy bag to eat as treat. Later on in the afternoon we had the Halloween fika together with the parents and the children got to taste the bakeries from each group and the parents. We had a great party celebrating Halloween!

The following Lpfö we have been working with:

To feel a sense of participation in their own culture and develop a feeling and respect for other cultures.

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

Penguins celebrating Halloween

   Halloween

This week we prepared for halloween, we made lots of bakery goods and decoration to hang all over the preschool. Today we went trick or treating, most of us dressed up but all of us went knocking on doors. We knocked and said “trick or treat”? And we got lots of nice treats in our goodie bag. We then later went back to our room and ate the goodies, while other groups came in and knock on our door, and said “trick or treat” We said treat and gave them glowing bracelets. All the penguin children got one bracelet each to put in their bags.

We later that day celebrated halloween with a fika with parents and friends, we served all our baked treats and showed them the halloween video of the day.

Purpose

To celebrate Halloween

Lpfö Revised 2010

• Develop their curiosity and enjoyment,as well as their ability to play and learn
• Feel a sense of participation in their own culture and develop a feeling and respect for other cultures.
• Develop their creative abilities and the ability to convey impressions,thoughts and experiences in many different forms,such as play,pictures, song and music.

Penguins celebrating chemistry day

Celebrating chemistry day

Today we celebrated chemistry day with two trays filled with baking soda and three cups filled with vinegar and food coloring. All the children had pippets, they got to fill it with color and drop it in the tray. It started to fizzle in different colors and all the children said “wow”. It was a fun and exciting experiment. Everyone kept saying WOW all the time, it was wonderful.

Purpose

Celebrating chemistry day

Lpfö revised 2010

Develop their understanding of science and the physical phenomena as well as simple chemical process.

Develop their curiosity and enjoy, as well as their ability to play and learn.