Kiwis- Lilla Vasaloppet

Lilla Vasaloppet- 2018

One of our international traditions is celebrating Lilla Vasaloppet. Every year we spent
the whole morning outside and participate in different outdoors activities. For this year,
we had to go through different stations with different tasks. We started our 1st station in
the forest (kids had to collect pine cones). The 2nd station was to make a circle and
choose their favorite song. The 3rd station was to jump 10 times. The 4th station was to
run towards the swimming pool. The 5th station was to play hot potato. The last station
was tug the war. After we finished all the stations, we had blueberry soup and bananas
for snack. The next day we rewarded our children with diplomas for completing the race.
Kids enjoyed a lot.

Purpose:

• To celebrate the preschool´s  traditions and ceremonies.
• To work as a big team and achieve the goal.
• To know about Lilla vasaloppet and get basic knowledge of winter sport in Sweden.

Lpfö 98 rev 2016:

“ Feel a sense of participation in their own culture and develop a feeling and respect for other cultures”

Ducklings - Art Craft

Art Craft- Creativity

We did art craft activity in the gym room. The children colored the flower template using okra (lady finger) as the brush. They dipped the okra in the paint and colored into the flower template. This activity helped them learn colors ,develop their fine motor skills and creativity . They were very focused , interested and had so much fun during the activity.

Purpose:

Develop their fine motor skills.

Develop their creativity.


Lpfö 98( revised 2010):

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

Cockatoos - Jolly Phonics Orally cvc blending

Children started to learn about orally blending. They helped the teacher to recognize c, a, t sounds and actions.Then they put all these letters together to make a word CAT. then they played with toy cats and at the end of the session all the cats went to sleep.
Children's interest: all the children were so happy to help in recognizing the sounds and especially to ppretend play with cats.They tried to read the word with their help too.
Purpose: To be aware of orally cvc blending and use of words that we learn about.
LPFÖ: Develop an interest in the written language and an understanding of symbols, and communicative function.

     Kiwis - Exploring the seesaw and balancing

We found some pieces of wood and the children tried building with them but the tower fell down so we had a think about what to do with the blocks instead. One child started standing on one block testing the weight on toes and heels. We all wanted to see how it was standing on them so we built a path, two blocks ended up on eachother creating a seesaw!

Purpose:

• Letting children's own interest stand in focus when developing ideas into activities.
• Practising balancing, and gross motorskills.
• Judging space between steps.
• Testing the effect of weight on the seesaw.  
• Using social skills like taking turns, helping and encouraging each other.

Lpfö 98, rev 2016:

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

Develop their motor skills.

Cockatoos learning with the light table

Light table activity 

Cockatoos were playing with the light table, We draw on transparency paper a elephant then, we putted on the top of the light table  were kids lighted up Elmer colors naming them.
the kids had a good time and at the same time they reflect about colors and Elmer the elephant story.

Purpose: To reflect about colors that we were working last week at the same time we wanted that they experiment with new tools this time was the light board.

Lpfö

• Develop their understanding of science
• Develop their ability to identify technology in everyday life, and explore how simple technology works
  

ducklings Math-Learning counting and colour

Learning counting and colour

We did math activity in the math room, children learned about purple-colour and counting from1-3 using artificial flowers. During the activity they were very focus and they had fun.

Purpose;-To develop their early math abilities
To develop their motor skills.,

Lpfö 98( revised 2010):

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

To develop their mathematical skill in putting forward and the following reasoning.

Flamingoes. A visit to our tree

Today we went to the park and on our way we looked at our tree.
The flamingoes were fascinated to see that all the leaves had fallen from the tree.
They felt the bark of the tree and found it was very rough and strong!
They were also excited to spot a birds nest in the tree!!

Purpose:

To learn to appreciate nature and learn about the seasons

Lpfö:

Develop their understanding of science and relationships to nature and knowledge
of animals