Maths Day Celebration

Maths Day

To celebrate Maths day, we took the children to the park where we  had set up stations with some fun-filled Maths games awaiting them!  The children enjoyed completing all the Maths challenges !

e.g. To arrange the containers from the lightest to the heaviest,How many children fit into the hula hoop and many more!

Purpose:

• To celebrate Maths day.
• To teach children maths through play.
• For children to problem solve.

Lpfö:

• To develop their mathematical skill in putting forward and following reasoning.
• To develop their ability to use mathematics to investigate, reflect over and test different solutions to problems raised by themselves and others.
  

Cockatoos - Math Day - Playing with colors and shapes

    We celebrated Math Day involving snow, water and ice in our play. Children learned about the process of turning water into ice and backwards and revised colors by mixing water with different colored paints; they watched this process  during the day.
     We also used paints to trace shapes in the snow that children followed with the finger.

Children's interest: All the children were very curious to play with favorite colors and to watch from time to time if their cups content turned into ice. It was an fun experience to trace shapes in the snow too and name them or following with the finger. They made remarks about cold snow, round shape, yummy ice cream and so on.

Purpose: To revise colors and shapes.

LPFÖ: 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.

Gruffalo’s Child

language, creativity, science/nature, math

Activities:

The group read the Gruffalo’s Child by Julia Donaldson.  The children used pictures to retell the story and developed their phonological skills by focusing on initial sounds of keywords.  We talked about the animals in the story, paying a lot of attention on their homes and footprints as an introduction to our Animal Tracking activity.  They also developed their mathematical skills for addition by participating in a Gruffalo’s Child themed math activity.

 

Purpose:

• to develop story comprehension and language skills
• to use literature as a way to introduce animals tracking and Swedish forest animals.
• to develop mathematical skills

Connection to the Lpfö-98 revised 2016:

The preschool should strive to ensure that each child….

• develop an interest in written language and an understanding of symbols, and communicative function
• develop their ability to listen, reflect
• develop their understanding and knowledge of plants and animals

  

Ducklings group- Curl up small and Grow Like Plant

Curl up small and Grow Like Plant

We read a story book 'Jack and the Beanstalk'. Then we also talked about how we can grow like plants and flowers. The children curled up small acting like beans and sprouts and then made their bodies growing like plants. That way we learned more about the growing process of plants and flowers.The children had fun.

Purpose : Taking part in symbolic, pretend or dramatic play.

The following Lpfö we have been working with:

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.

Goldilocks and 3 bears activity

IPC : animals 

 Goldilocks and the 3 bears

During the week we were working with the story of "Goldilocks and the 3 bears" we used for learn sizes. The kids really liked it the story. Using the story we did an activity in the art room. 

Th kids were playing with the play dough and use it for make the story. We printed some templates in relate with the story and the kids were using the play dough for put on the templates and finish the draw. 

Purpose: 

What we want with this activity is that the kids use the play dough to model the story. In that way the could reflect about the story. 

To train their fine motor skills and their sensory skills working with the play dough.

To develop their creativity creating new things with the play dough.

LPFÖ

Develop their creative abilities and the ability to convey impressions. 

Develop their ability to reflect. 

Develop their understanding of space. 

Chinese New Year celebration

Celebrating Chinese New year

Today we celebrated chinese new year. We started the morning by some of the children dressing up in

traditional chinese wear. We had wok noodles in the dining room, the children added the topping and

ate a lot, it was super yummy.

We also made drums with a picture of the year dog and the children sprinkled glitter in different colors

and as much as the wanted. It turned out very shiny and pretty.

Purpose: Celebrating a tradition

Lpfö 98 Revised 2016

• Feel a sense of participation in their own culture and develop a feeling and respect for other cultures.
• Develop their curiosity and enjoyment, as well as their ability to play and learn.

celebrating vasaloppet

Penguins celebrating Vasaloppet

Today we celebrated Vasaloppet. All of the penguins children walked in a line to the first task that was in the forest.
We collected pine cones and put it in a bag.

When we were done we went to the second flag, had a circle sing time.
The third flag we had to run and it was so much fun, we played hot potato game.  
The last flag we had tug of war Penguins VS Ducklings it was a tie.
We sat down and had bananas and yummy blueberry soup.
We finished the day with Big applause.

Purpose

Celebration Vasaloppet

Develop their gross motor skills

Lpfö 98 Revised

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