Kiwis- water drop

This summer party Will be one of the sourcesof donation for clean water to people in need of clean water. We are working with our kids to learn and understand about the importance of water for our life. Every week we are planning one activity relaterad to water. One of the activities, Kids have been asked to fill a drawing of water drop with blue colored water drops. Kids enjoyed filling the water drops. After that, we asked the kids to blend the sounds that form word water. They tried well.

Purpose: 

1- To know about water, its uses and its importance for us.

2- To develop their hand- eye coordination.

3- To develop their learning of Jolly Phonics.

Lpfö 98:

Develop their undestanding of science and its relation to nature.

Develop their fine motor skills.

penguins washing hands

Water day

This week we made purple and blue raspberry soap. The next day we showed the importance of how to wash our hands and why, and how to save water when washing hands. We rubbed in the soap and rinsed it out with water. Everyone had their turn to wash their hands using our soap that we made, the washed away all the yucky germs on their hands.

Everyone had a fun, clean and learning week.

Purpose

Keeping our body healthy from germs

Lpfö 98 Revised 2016

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

penguins making tulips stamping

Tulips stamping

Today we introduced spring by having an art activity of tulips. We used forks, our finger and different spring colors. We dipped the fork into tulips color and stamped it on a card, and later dipped our finger into green paint to make the stem and leaves of the tulips.

It turned out to be very pretty and a perfect gift for our parents.

Purpose

Introduce spring

Develop their fine motor skills

Lpfö 98 Revised 2010

• Develop their creative abilities and the ability to convey impressions,thoughts and experiences in many different forms.
• Develop their curiosity and enjoyment, as well as their ability to play and learn.

IKT and JOLLY PHONICS

 

Activity:

The children practiced identifying intial sounds and segmentation of words by finding images that started with each target sound.  Once they identified a word, they typed the word into the computer, requiring them to use their segmenting skills to identify the individual sounds of the word.

Purpose: 

• Provide an opportunity for the children to explore technology 
• Practice Jolly Phonics sounds and segmenting skills

Connection to the Lpfö 98- revised 2016

The preschool should strive to ensure that each child....

• develop an interest for written language as well as an understanding for symbols and their meaning.
• develop their ability to identify everyday technology and explore how simple technology works

Ducklings: Finger Puppet show

We had a Finger puppet show with puppets made out of thermo balls and other craft materials. We sang the Five Fingers song and followed creating scenarios to explain about respect, friendship and help to others. It was great!

Purpose:

To develop their motor skills.

LPFO

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

Cockatoos - Solid and liquid experiment

We played with solid water colors by smashing them with a hammer into powder.We then sprinkled water and noticed how it turns from solid to liquid.
Children's interest: All the children were very excited to use the hammer and make powder but they were also interested to play with water bottles and to observe the change from solid to liquid.While they played they aske a range of questions about colors and about our experiment.
Purpose: To learn the change in the state of material from solid to  liquid
LPFÖ: Develop their ability to distinguish, explore, document, put questions about and talk about science.

Ducklings group:- Learn about dirty and Clean water

Activity:

During the celebration of World Water Day on 22nd March, 2017, we talked about water, why water is important for us, what is clean/dirty water and why we should drink clean water.

Purpose:To teach the children about difference between the clean & dirty water .

LPFO

Develop their understanding to differentiate between clean water and dirty water and use of clean water in day today life.