Cockatoos - Math - We measure quantities

We learned about measuring quantities by preparing  bread dough. Children took their turn to add flour, salt, oil and other ingredients as the recipe shows it.They understood the meaning of the word measure by making the dough by themselves. We then modelled small pieces of dough into an elephant head before to place it in the oven.

Children's interest: They all took part in the activity with joy and intersest. They've been really helpful to measure ingredients and to make the elephant face.

Purpose: To introduce the word ' measure' and its meaning through a baking activity.

LPFÖ: Develop their understanding for measurement.

kiwis- making Oobleck

                                     Making Oobleck

Learning is happening through play. Kiwis have experienced and felt new texture by making Oobleck. Kids helped to add the ingredients of cornstarch and water to enjoy feeling the texture of the oobleck. They have learned about soft and hard (solid and liquid) by practising with different ways of touching the dough. When they pressed hardly and with much pressure, then they felt it so hard and solid. On the other hand, and when they touch the dough nicely and softly then they felt it so soft as runny

. Kids enjoyed their new experience and had so much fun by playing with it.

Purpose:

• To learn that we can use materials available at home to make something useful.
• To feel different textures and learn about soft and hard.
• To improve their sensory skills, language, and vocabulary as well as social and communication skills.

Lpfö 98 revised 2016:

Develop their sensory skills. Develop their fine motor skills. Develop their language and vocabulary. Develop their curiosity and enjoyment, as well as their ability to play and learn.

Develop their understanding of science and relationships to nature, and simple chemical processes and physical phenomena.

celebrating WORLD Math day

Celebrating World Math Day

Today was world math day, we celebrated this day with three fun learning activities.
We divided our group into three smaller groups to got to the three
different math stations.
First station was matching the right color ball in to the right hole,
2nd feed the mouse chocolate chip cookies while counting the cookies and
3rd putting in different lids and corks into the right shaped holes.

Purpose

Celebrating math day

Lpfö 98 Revised 2016

• Develop their understanding of space, shapes, location and direction.
• Develop their curiosity and enjoyment, as well as their ability to play and learn.

IPC animals_The savanna

Wild animals (Savanna)

We want to teach to the kids about the savanna. We showed to the cockatoos about Africa savanna. We wanted to Introduce to the kids where is the savanna and which animals live there. The kids used animals  stickers and they pasted on the world map in the lunchroom.

with this activity the kids could the develop their cognitive skills and they learned to place where is Africa

Lpfö

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

Ducklings group- Ordering Plants and Flowers according to height

Ordering Plants and Flowers according to height

We put some plants and flowers of different sizes in a row and the children identified which was small,bigger or biggest among them. The children learned about sizes(small,bigger and biggest).They had fun during the activity.

Purpose;-To develop their early math abilities

To develop their motor skills.,

Lpfö 98( revised 2010):

To 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.

To develop their mathematical skill in putting forward and the following reasoning.

Maths Day Celebration

Maths Day

To celebrate Maths day, we took the children to the park where we  had set up stations with some fun-filled Maths games awaiting them!  The children enjoyed completing all the Maths challenges !

e.g. To arrange the containers from the lightest to the heaviest,How many children fit into the hula hoop and many more!

Purpose:

• To celebrate Maths day.
• To teach children maths through play.
• For children to problem solve.

Lpfö:

• To develop their mathematical skill in putting forward and following reasoning.
• To develop their ability to use mathematics to investigate, reflect over and test different solutions to problems raised by themselves and others.
  

Cockatoos - Math Day - Playing with colors and shapes

    We celebrated Math Day involving snow, water and ice in our play. Children learned about the process of turning water into ice and backwards and revised colors by mixing water with different colored paints; they watched this process  during the day.
     We also used paints to trace shapes in the snow that children followed with the finger.

Children's interest: All the children were very curious to play with favorite colors and to watch from time to time if their cups content turned into ice. It was an fun experience to trace shapes in the snow too and name them or following with the finger. They made remarks about cold snow, round shape, yummy ice cream and so on.

Purpose: To revise colors and shapes.

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.