The Red Riding Hood Sequencing

Activity: 

Over the past few days we worked on sequencing the story of Little Red Riding Hood.  As the children became more familiar with the story, they were able to sequence the story and narrate what was happening in each picture.  

Purpose: 

• develop reading comprehension skills
• develop sequencing skills
• develop understanding of ordinal language (first, next and last)

Connection to the Lpfö-

The preschool should strive to see that each child develops....

his/her intrest written language and understanding of symbol and how they are used to convey information

Penguins - Pre JollyPhonics / Listening Ears Animals Sounds

  We introduced awareness of sounds all around us by playing” Listening Ears” game.
We heared better this time the real farm animals sounds: rooster, hen, chicks. The children also touchen every one of these farm birds in toy shape or on a touch and feel book.

Children’s interest: All the children were curious about the unusual sounds that they hear.Along the week they even copyied the way the animals speak like: cockle-doodle-doo, cluck/cluck, tweet/tweet.

Purpose: To introduce farm animals sounds through feeling, visual and especially auditory skills.
LPFÖ: To develop an interest in pictures and understanding of sounds.

Flamingoes: Story Sequencing Activity

Three Billy Goats Gruff Sequencing

Activity:

While reading the story ,Three Billy Goats Gruff , we worked on the children’s abilities to
sequence and retell stories.  We focused on ordinal language: first, next and last and story
grammar components: characters, problem and solution.  The children coloured pictures,
put their story in order and took them home to read to their parents.

Purpose:

• Develop the children’s early literacy skills

Connection to the Lpfö:  

Förskolan ska ge varje barn förutsättningar att utveckla….

“intresse för berättelser, bilder och texter i olika medier, såväl digitala som andra,
samt sin förmåga att använda sig av, tolka, ifrågasätta och samtala om dessa,”

Coclatoos-class coffe

Class Cafe

We set up a class café.Children  made menus, set up tables, took orders and serve meals. They made bills, took money and gave change.

Cockatoos group was very involved with the activity and the enjoy a lot.

Purpose:

To work together and understand what a bakery is working.

Lpfö

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

Kiwis- Jolly phonics drawing snakes on the sand

                                Jolly phonics                    

One of our main focus area is Jolly phonics. For our age group kids need to learn the sounds and
the action through a story telling. We had 3 weeks as sounds awareness, where kids were listening to
different sound inside and outside the preschool environment. This week, we have started our Jolly
learning by telling a story included the first two sounds which are (s & a). To improve their learning
of these sounds, we had related activities like colouring pictures of items start with s and a. During our
outing, we had an opportunity to draw snakes on the sand while making the s sound. Many kids were
able to draw snakes and say the sound too.

Purpose:

• To learn about jolly phonics sounds.
• To develop their language and listening skills.
• To work on their fine motor skills.

Lpfö 98 revised 2016:

Develop an interest in pictures, texts and different media, as well as the ability to make use of ,
interpret and talk about them.

Knowledge harvest - Food

Knowledge harvest

Area: Language and Nature

Skills: cognitive skills

We had the knowledge harvest of our theme, We were asking the kids if they
know the difference between fruits and vegetables.
We also asked if they know where the food come from like the milk, apple,
potatoes. The cockatoos group also tell us colors of the food and names that
they knew.

Purpose: To see how much the kids know about our the new theme food.

Connection to the LpfÖ-98(revised 2010):

To develop their use of spoken language.

To develop their understanding of science and relationships to nature.

Red Riding Hood Hide and Seek

Activity:

For the past week or so, we have been reading the story Little Red Riding Hood. We have read Swedish and English versions. The children acted out the story of Little Red Riding hood, by dressing up as the characters and playing hide and seek in the forest.  Everyone was very eager to have turn to be the wolf.

Purpose:

• reinforce learning of story grammar (i.e., characters and setting) of a story in a fun and interactive way
• develop pretend play skills

Connection to the Lpfö-

“I lek får barnen möjlighet att imitera, fantisera och bearbeta intryck. På så sätt kan de bilda sig en uppfattning om sig själva och andra människor. Lek stimulerar fantasi och inlevelse. Lek kan också utmana och stimulera barnens motorik, kommunikation, samarbete och problemlösning samt förmåga att tänka i bilder och symboler.”