Cockatoos - Exploring a wide of shapes

                 

        We played with different 2D shapes like circle, square, oval, triangle, diamond. We used either colored playdough or snow and mark making activity to explore and observe shapes.

Children's interest: All the children were very happy to play with snow but also to make circle prints in it.

Purpose: To explore different shapes through fun

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.

Cockatoos - Math - learning orange color

       
We learn to recognize orange color through a sensory activity.The children made playdough carrots and pretended boiling and prepare a soup with them.
Children's interest: All the children were excited to take part in the imaginative play.They were totally involved to prepare carrot soup and named the orange color while they were making carrots.
Purpose: To learn recognizing orange color through a sensory activity.
LPFÖ: Develop their ability to use mathematics to investigate, reflect over and test different different solutions to problem raised by themselves and others.

Peacock's parachute fun

                           

                                                            Parachute Fun!!!!!

Activity: 

The children learned the importance of following directions and cooperation when working in a large group.  They learned that in order for the parachute activities to work and for everyone to have fun each one of them played an important role.  They also discovered how the activities didn't go as planned when someone was not cooperating.  In the end, they were all eager to demonstrate the required skills for the group activity and had an amazing time. 

                                 

Purpose:

* develop the children's gross motor skill

* develop the children's ability to follow directions and cooperate in a group

Connection to the Lpfö-98 (Revised 2010):

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

* their ability to function in a group

* their ability to develop their motor skills and co-ordinate

Penguins showing different emotions

Different emotions

This week we talked and acted our feelings out, looking into the mirror and making different emotional faces. Everyone got halved piece of  plate and glued on a  Popsicle, looked in the big mirror and made a face, we teachers helped drew a  eg. happy,sad,excited..etc face on the plate, we got to change our emotions, while looking in the mirror.

Purpose

Develop their awareness of the different emotions.( sad, happy, angry, sleepy)

Develop their ability to express their feelings and also how to change it. Eg when she/he is sad what do we do to make him/ her happy.

Lpfö Revised 2010

• Develop their understanding the different emotions and how to change it.
• Develop their ability to express their emotions according to the situation.

Cockatoos - Universal Children's Day

We celebrated this day by playing with colored balloons.Each child choose and named the color of the balloon and they played freely.

Children's interest:The excitement and happiness was on all the children’s faces.  

Purpose: To learn about importance of events and inter-nationality.

Lpfö:To feel a sense of participation in their own culture and develop a feeling and respect for other cultures.

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

A visit to the Recycling Center

This year for the Nobel Day the Flamingoes are doing a recycling project. We have been learning about the three R’s of the environment that is to reduce, reuse and recycle. The Flamingoes collected recyclable materials , sorted them and today we went to the recycling center.  All the children got to put the recyclable materials into the correct bins. It was a great hands on experience for the children!!!

Purpose

To teach the children about the importance of reducing, reusing and recycling.

To instill love and care for the environment.

Connection With the Lpfö

To develop a respect and care for the environment

Ducklings: Making Face Art Crafts with Different Emotions

We reviewed the emotions we learned last week with flashcards and then the children were divided into two groups doing an art activity about emotions. The children were given round colored construction paper to represent the faces and also googly eyes, pipe cleaners  and colorful stickers as five senses on the face. The children made different facial emotions with the help of the teachers like happy, sad, scared, sick and surprised faces.

Purpose:

To develop their fine motor skills.

To learn about different senses on their faces (IPC All About Me: My Body)

To develop their early knowledge on emotions and emotion management.

The Lpfö we have been working wtih:

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.