Cockatoos- Face Collage

Our cockatoos did a face collage by cutting pictures of our face and pasting them.

Lpfö 98- to develop their cognitive skills

to develop their creativity

Mathematics - Patterns

We used two different types of pasta making patterns.

Porpose: to practice AB, AB pattern and ABBA.

LPFO: Develop their mathematical skill in putting forward and following reasoning.

Peacocks kings day

Kings day

Peacocks april 27th 2015

On the 27th of April we celebrated the Dutch Kings day. Many children came in Orange and all got the Dutch flag with face paint on their cheeks.

We started with making/finishing our crowns and eating some young Dutch cheese. After that we did "Koekhappen", the children got a cake each hanging above them, with only their mouth they tried to pull the cake from the line and eat it. After that we did a relay sack race (zaklopen). Afterwards, the children ate cake that children often eat at birthday parties. It is a sweet round cake (eierkoek). You decorate it with whipped cream and sprinkles:).

As a last activity we danced to the music "De kabouterdans from kabouter plop".

It was a great morning outside!

Lpfö:

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

* Develop their creative abilities

* Develop their curiosity and enjoyment

* Develop their motor skills

Flamingoes: The Great Kindness Challenge

The children in Futuraskolan are celebrating “The Great Kindness Week” . The focus of this challenge is to see how many different ways we can show kindness every day.We have already discussed the different ways we can show kindness to each other. The children are completing a kind deeds checklist at school .

The Flamingoes have been busy giving Thank You notes to the teachers ,giving hugs and cleaning the school. They have also been designing a Kindness poster with flowers and kindness hearts.

Purpose:

To develop sense of responsibility

To develop healthy relationships with one another and develop their social skills

To develop love and care for each other

Lpfo

To develop love and care for each other and our environment

Develop respect for all forms of life as well as care for their environment

Ducklings: Math activity of Counting the Snakes

As we were developing our IPC theme animals to the snake, we talked about  different amount of snakes made with pipe cleaners as an math activity. As all the children saw the little red snakes made with pipe cleaners were put under the correct number from one to five. We started to counting from number one to five as well together. Later on, all the children got their own chance to practice count and put the correct amount of little snakes under a certain number individually. They found the activity so fun and interesting to learn as well as to play.

We have been working on the following Lpfö goals:

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

Cockatoos- making Rangoli

This week we focused our “lets pretend” theme on India. With teamwork the Cockatoos made a Rangoli in the front yard with chalks.

– Rang, meaning colour and Aavali meaning creepers or lines. Rangaavali, or Rangoli, as we call it today, thus, literally translates into ‘coloured lines’ and that is what it essentially is – lines drawn in colour – inside or outside the house. It could be a celebration of a festival, an expression of happiness, a sign of welcome, a symbol of cleanliness and purity… but all it is, essentially, is lines of colour.

Purpose

Developing a curiosity and understanding of the traditions of India

Connection to Lpfö98

Develop their ability to distinguish and explore and put questions to life.

Penguin- Art & Sensory

The penguins have been working on a jungle collage, in line with their theme Animals. We have been exploring what a jungle is, which animals can be found in a jungle and the type of environment.

We spoke with the children as a group, exploring the different things we have learnt during the theme. The children were able to suggest things we could add to the jungle collage, and choose different materials we could use. 

The children were able to be creative in building the collage, training different fine motor skills and abilities. We also collected materials from nature and talked about the different textures.