Penguins celebrating thanksgiving.

The week of celebrating Thanksgiving

This week we have been talking and reading about the first thanksgiving, what it is all about and why we celebrate it. We have made a turkey by cutting a square shaped cardboard box and glued many different color feathers and felt, we also had a math turkey activity with counting feathers and the shape of a turkey.

We ended the week with a nice turkey storytelling in the drama room with lots of hugs and thanks to everyone.

Purpose

Celebrating thanksgiving

Lpfö revised 2010

• Develop their curiosity and enjoyment, as well as their ability to play and learn.
• Develop their understanding of shapes,location and space.
• Develop their creative abilities and to convey impressions,thoughts and experiences in many different forms such as play,pictures,song and music, dance and drama.

Cockatoos- Green Screen

Green Screen activity

Cockatoos are preparing the Nobel project in litureature. We used  the Green Screen as the background for our nobel day literature and technology as the children do the jolly phonics sounds in the background of pictures off s, a, d, etc. They loved work with the Green Screen! 

Purpose: To use technology and literature as part of our nobel literature, and involve them in jolly phonics in a different way that we use to do. 

Lpfö

to develop their use of spoken language and the ability to play with words

Thanksgiving Fun- peacocks

This week we learned a lot about the history and meaning of the American holiday, Thanksgiving.  We learned lots of new vocabulary such as: Native American, Pilgrim, Wompanoag, wetu, Mayflower, tribe, village, treaty, grateful and thankful.  Each day the children said one thing they were thankful for and put it on a leaf on our, "We are thankful for tree" we also made thank you cards to thank people in our lives for making us happy.  In celebration of Thanksgiving and in relation to our IPC theme, houses and homes, we learned about how the Wompanoag Native American lived and the types of homes in which they lived.  We learned about how the homes were built and from which materials.  We divided into small groups and created our very own Wetus using pipe cleaners, felt and sticky tacky.  

Purpose: 

- to develop the children's understanding of why and how Thanksgiving is celebrated

- to develop the children's receptive and expressive vocabulary for words related to Thanksgiving

- to develop the children's understanding of the words grateful and thankful as well as ways to express thankfulness

- to develop the children's understanding of how Native Americans lived

Lpfö-98 connection: 

- Develop a feeling of respect for other cultures

- develop their use of spoken language, vocabulary and concepts

- develop their ability to build, create and construct using different materials

Kiwis- Creative expressions-Germs

We droped small blobs of liquid paint onto our paper. We used then straws to blow the blobs of paint in all directions. Once dry we sticked on the googly eyes and added few expressions like: sad, angry, happy as a reminder that some bacteria are friendly.

Connection to Lpfö: “Develop their motor skills. Ability to co-ordinate, awareness of their own body, as well as an understanding of the importance of maintaining their own health and well-being.”

“develop their creative abilities and the ability to convey impressions, thoughts and experiences in many different forms.”

Cockatoos: land and water art

Cockatoos for our land and water theme, we did an art project using shaving cream, glue, and coloring. We talked about the land being green and the water being blue. So that we were able to tell which was which we colored the land green and the water blue.

Purpose: As part of the grid in IPC we needed to talk about land and water and be able to distinguish them

Lpfö98- to develop their ability to listen to instructions.

To develop their fine motor skills.

Flamingoes: Thanksgiving Turkey Craft

Flamingoes enjoyed making thanksgiving Turkey craft. Firstly they wrapped yarn around styrofoam balls. Then they cut colorful feathers for the turkey. On the feathers we wrote what they were thankful for!!!

Purpose:

To learn more about different cultures

Connection to Lpfö:

Develop feeling and respect for other cultures

Develop their creative abilities

penguins pineapple week

Baking a pineapple pie

Today we introduced the children the exotic fruit pineapple with a funny learning song and some pictures of different color the fruit can have. We also talked about eating the fruit fresh as it is and you can also bake it, so we bake a pie. Which turned out to be really yummy and sugar free.

Purpose

Baking a pineapple pie

Lpfö:

• Develop their use of spoken language.
• Develop their mathematical skill-develop their understanding on the basic properties of sets,quantity, order and numbers, also for measurements,time and change.