Mathematics: Baking animal shape cookies

We baked some animal shaped cookies using flour, butter and sugar substitute. The children learned about  counting, measuring quantity/amount and also learned about different shapes. Pouring different ingredients in a bowl and them mixing them together, rolling the dough and cutting in different animal shapes helped them to develop their muscle control and eye-hand coordination. It also helped them to develop pride and confidence in their abilities and as well as motivated them to work in a team for their social development.
The children also got chance to eat the cookies in the afternoon for snacks. They were so excited and motivated during the whole activities.

Purpose:
To develop their early Maths skills as well as social and physical development.

Lpfö: 
Develop their understanding of space, shapes, location and direction, and the basis properties of sets, quantity, order and number concepts, also for measurement, time and change.

Yoga In The Park

Veenu is a yoga instructor brought from India by the Indian Embassy of Stockholm to spread the yoga practice in Sweden.  We are lucky in that she will be joining us once a week to teach the children yoga.  This particular week, the peacocks and flamingos participated in yoga in the park.  The children were very attentive and determined to try all of the poses.  

Purpose: 

to develop the children's self control and body awareness

to develop the children's ability to follow directions

Connection to the Lpfö: 

The preschool should strive to develop each child's: 

motoric, coordination and understanding of their bodies as well as an understanding of the importance of taking car of their health and well-being. 

Entry Point of IPC food

We had one week as our entry point for our IPC  Food theme. Our entry point has been divided into different parts during the week. We had fun play in water with toy and real fruits and vegetable. Kids had a chance to differentiate between real and toy food by taking bites. Our second part was during our outing to the grocery shop in order to look at different kinds of food like vegetables, fruits, protein, milk products, bread, etc. Meanwhile, we had face time with the rest of the group who were watching us on the TV screen from the preschool. We also had fun picking up potatoes from the yard of the preschool. Later on we baked them together with some carrots. We had pretended shopping in the lunch room, by using real and toy food items. After the shopping we made salad out of different vegetables that we shopped during the pretend play. Everyone was happy and excited to eat the baked potatoes and the sallad we made.

Purpose:

• To introduce our IPC food in an interesting way.
• To know different kinds of food.
• To motivate our kids to learn more about food.
• To develop their language and communication skills.
• To develop their cognitive skills.

Lpfö 98 revised 2018:

“The preschool should promote play, creativity and enjoyment of learning, as well as focus on and strengthen the child's interests in learning and capturing new experiences, knowledge and skills”.

                    

Cockatoos: Entry point -food

Welcome back!

We started our academic year with activities for our Entry point with the theme food. one of the activities was in the lunch room. 

We created a supermarket! The kids were playing and pretending that they were buying food. Some of them ate the food before paying 😹

Lpfö

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

Flamingoes IMotion Movie Project

ICT : IMotion Movie Project

Flamingoes enjoyed listening to the story of ” Three Billy Goats Gruff”.

We will be doing an ongoing iMotion movie project to retell the story using props.

The children will be developing their storytelling and story comprehension skills!

And they also learned how to use the imotion app. A fun way to combine ICT and storytelling skills!

Penguins Circus

Entry Point: ANIMALS UNIT

To introduce the animals theme we set up a circus tent where the children

were invited for a circus game.

A clown introduced all the animals in the circus.

We had a mini theatre where a sheep came to visit us.

The children played, touched and felt the animals and placed

them in three different areas: air, water, land.

PURPOSE:

To introduce various animals through fun visual and censorial activity.

LPFÖ Revised 2018

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

WELCOME BACK!

FALL 2018

Hello and welcome back Näsbypark preschoolers!  We are really looking forward to an exciting year with the exciting IPC theme...."Let's Pretend".  

Our Entry Point: 

To kick off the Let's Pretend unit, the children were encouraged to bring their favorite books and dress up as their favorite character from the story.  We had LOTS of Elsas, a Vaiana, transformers, batmans and a boy from Ghana.  The children participated in a character fashion show to show off their costumes.  The also took turns taking about their favorite stories.  This term we will use stories as the base of our Let's Pretend theme.  We will be targeting language and literacy skills in both Swedish and English.  The children will develop their story comprehension skills by being able to identify important story grammar components, sequence a story and retell stories to their friends.  We will also do a lot of play and act out the stories we have read.  Fun times to come!!