Goldilocks and 3 bears activity

IPC : animals 

 Goldilocks and the 3 bears

During the week we were working with the story of "Goldilocks and the 3 bears" we used for learn sizes. The kids really liked it the story. Using the story we did an activity in the art room. 

Th kids were playing with the play dough and use it for make the story. We printed some templates in relate with the story and the kids were using the play dough for put on the templates and finish the draw. 

Purpose: 

What we want with this activity is that the kids use the play dough to model the story. In that way the could reflect about the story. 

To train their fine motor skills and their sensory skills working with the play dough.

To develop their creativity creating new things with the play dough.

LPFÖ

Develop their creative abilities and the ability to convey impressions. 

Develop their ability to reflect. 

Develop their understanding of space. 

Chinese New Year celebration

Celebrating Chinese New year

Today we celebrated chinese new year. We started the morning by some of the children dressing up in

traditional chinese wear. We had wok noodles in the dining room, the children added the topping and

ate a lot, it was super yummy.

We also made drums with a picture of the year dog and the children sprinkled glitter in different colors

and as much as the wanted. It turned out very shiny and pretty.

Purpose: Celebrating a tradition

Lpfö 98 Revised 2016

• Feel a sense of participation in their own culture and develop a feeling and respect for other cultures.
• Develop their curiosity and enjoyment, as well as their ability to play and learn.

celebrating vasaloppet

Penguins celebrating Vasaloppet

Today we celebrated Vasaloppet. All of the penguins children walked in a line to the first task that was in the forest.
We collected pine cones and put it in a bag.

When we were done we went to the second flag, had a circle sing time.
The third flag we had to run and it was so much fun, we played hot potato game.  
The last flag we had tug of war Penguins VS Ducklings it was a tie.
We sat down and had bananas and yummy blueberry soup.
We finished the day with Big applause.

Purpose

Celebration Vasaloppet

Develop their gross motor skills

Lpfö 98 Revised

• Develop their motor skills. Ability to coordinate, awareness of their own body,
  as well as an understanding of the importance of maintaining their own health and well-being.
• Develop their curiosity and enjoyment,as well as their ability to play and learn.
• Feel a sense of participation in their own culture and develop a feeling and respect for other cultures.

Cockatoos - Celabrating Chinese New Year

The Cockatoos group took part in Chinese New Year celebrated in the whole preschool.
We ate noodles and learned how to mix different ingredients inside the dish; we admired chinese
costumes and different items, we received a coin as a present to bring us luck for the whole year and
they practiced also yoga using traditional chinese music.

Children's interest: All the children really enjoyed the celebration so much so they continued dancing by themselves on chinese traditional music.

Purpose: To learn about traditions and internationality through chinese New Year celebration.

Lpfö:  With a mother tongue other than swedish, develop their cultural identity and the ability to communicate in both Swedish and their mother tongue.

Ducklings- Science- Sowing seeds in the eggshell

Science-  Sowing seeds in the eggshell

We had a science activity where we reviewed the plant cycle and sowed some seeds (white kidney beans) in the empty eggshells.The children learned to plant seeds.They had a lot of fun during the activity.
Purpose: To develop their early science skills

Lpfö 98( revised 2010):

-Develop their understanding of science and relationships of nature,
as well as knowledge of plants, animals, and also simple chemical processes and physical phenomena.

-Acquire and be able to differentiate shades of meaning in concepts,
see interconnections and discover new ways of understanding the surrounding world

How Old Is This Tree?

Counting Rings

Measuring the Circumference

Making Tree Rings

Activity:

The children learned ways to estimate the age of a tree: counting the rings inside the tree and measuring the circumference of a tree's trunk. During the ring counting activity, we brought logs into the school from the playground. Needless to say, bugs came in with them. The children were really excited about the little visitors. It was a great opportunity to work on language and communication skills. We talked about how they bugs got into the school, made projections on how the spider may have felt being in the school and explored beyond the here and now, discussing where it may be going.

Teacher: Oh wow, wonder how that got in here!

Child 1: the log

(The children start to chase the spider all around)

Teacher: How do you think the spider feels when you chase it around?

Child 2: Scared

Teacher: Why do you think it might be scared?

Child 1: because it is small.

We went out into the forest and measured the tree trunks of various trees, recording our findings. We later used string to demonstrate the different trunks and use comparative language such as big/bigger/biggest, short/shorter/shortest, fat/fatter/fattest to compare and contrast the trunks. They then created their own colorful tree trunks practicing their fine motor skills (cutting, drawing circles and coloring within the lines).

Purpose:

• sensory exploration: tactile, visual, olfactory
• language skill development: superlatives and comparative (big/bigger/biggest, etc), taking on the point of view of others, making predictions/talking beyond the hear and now 
• Math skills: ability to compare and contrast, make inferences based on known knowledge, use of measuring tools

Connection to the Lpfö-98 Revised 2016:

"Children search for knowledge and development through play, social interaction, exploration and creativity, as well as through observation, discussion and reflection.  A theme based approach can broaden and enrich the child's learning"

Kiwis- Lilla Vasaloppet

Lilla Vasaloppet- 2018

One of our international traditions is celebrating Lilla Vasaloppet. Every year we spent
the whole morning outside and participate in different outdoors activities. For this year,
we had to go through different stations with different tasks. We started our 1st station in
the forest (kids had to collect pine cones). The 2nd station was to make a circle and
choose their favorite song. The 3rd station was to jump 10 times. The 4th station was to
run towards the swimming pool. The 5th station was to play hot potato. The last station
was tug the war. After we finished all the stations, we had blueberry soup and bananas
for snack. The next day we rewarded our children with diplomas for completing the race.
Kids enjoyed a lot.

Purpose:

• To celebrate the preschool´s  traditions and ceremonies.
• To work as a big team and achieve the goal.
• To know about Lilla vasaloppet and get basic knowledge of winter sport in Sweden.

Lpfö 98 rev 2016:

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