The lilies

The Lilies had a wonderful week baking Lussebullar for the upcoming Lucia celebration day. They can’t wait for mummy and daddy to come try and have a taste.

Lpfö: develop their understanding of science and their ability to build, create and construct using different techniques.

The lilies

Preparing for Nobel, our subject for the lilies for Nobel is chemistry. They got to experiment with turning cream into butter. They had to pour some cream in glass jars, half full and shake the jar as much as they and as many times as they could until the texture turned more solid than liquid. Our experiment was a success!

Lpfo: develop their understanding of science and relationships to nature, as well as knowledge of plants, animals and also simple chemical processes and physical phenomena.

(Backup) Tulips

 

Today the Tulips celebrated Universal children’s day by using green screen we made a film, they pretended to sit on a buss, listening to their favorite song wheels on the buss.One of the children was a driver and the others were passengers, by using imagination, fantasy and curiosity we designed a film. The Tulips really enjoyed themselves making a film and most of all pretending that they really were sitting on a buss not sitting on a chair.The children had great fun with their friends.

Lpfö: Develop their curiosity and enjoyment, as well as ability to play and learn using their motor skills and ability to coordinate their own body.

The Lilies

The Lilies celebrated Universal Children’s Day. They had a spa day with different stations. They got to choose and try on nail polish, massage, try on different hairstyles and have a relaxing moment putting cucumbers on their eyes and their feet in water. They loved all these different ways to relax and try something new!

Lpfö: develop their identity and feel secure in themselves

The lilies

Every morning the lilies before they start anything else, we have our traditional good morning circle. Where we great each other with a song. As well as count both in Swedish and English how many we are today. We also sing a few songs both in Swedish and English then we start the activities for the day.

Lpfo: Develop their spoken language and another language other than their own.

The tulips

Today tulips experienced five sense room. They took a tour around the room and did a long stop in our amazing “sensory wall”. They all explored by touching all the funny toys/objects hanging on the wall like big legos, the three roller paint, the red and blue zip, the amazing sparkling shoe and big funny eyes that look at everyone at the same time. It was awesome! They really have a lot of fun!

They all took turns and communicated to each other.

What they liked the most; the big sparkling shoe and the red and blue zip. They all pulled up the zip and curiously touched and looked at the brilliant shoe material. Some of them were having a conversation to guess what was hanging on the wall. 

Lpfö: Develop their curiosity and enjoyment  as well as their ability to play and learn.

Develop their understanding of space, shapes, location and direction.

The Lilies

The kids today got to do jolly phonics. They got to continue their jolly phonics studies after coming back from ´höstlov`. They seem to be really engaged listening to the stories including the jolly phonics letters as well as be able to act it out together. 

Lpfö: Develop their spoken language and improve their communication and social skills.

Tulips

The spooky season, Halloween is here again. Since last week, it has been time when the Tulips have participated in different activities such as making Halloween arts and crafts, baking Spooky Witches Fingers, chocolate spiders and ghosts cookies. However, nothing could match better in getting in the Hallowed spirit like carving a pumpkin. With one of the Tulips teacher’ assistance, children  scrawled with a permanent marker onto the pumpkin. They had fun time putting a funny face on it, they were really good touching the rough exterior and scraping the inside of the pumpkin, taking out all the seeds and pumpkin fruit. 

The aim of the activity was to introduce the Halloween tradition to children with the help of fun activities. Moreover, by doing this activity, children improved their social skills as they were asked to wait for their turn and collaborate with their friends.

Lpfö ‘98:  “Develop their creative abilities and the ability to convey impressions, thoughts and experiences in many different forms”

The lilies

The lilies this week had an exciting kick off to our upcoming Halloween celebrations. They got to visit an abandoned castle in the middle of the woods and got to run around, explore and scare each other senseless!

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

Tulips

The Tulips experienced today our spontaneous balance game in the gym. We set up different stations in order to let them explore, play  and enjoy with the gym equipment. Station like jumping on the mat and counting 1 to 3 their jumps, climbing up and crawling on the cylindric bridge. They all had fun together, laughed and played one of each other. Exchanging emotions at the same time they were all training fine and gross motors skills. We them the opportunity to make their legs and muscles stronger. Favorite station the jumping one. Oh oh oh so exciting tulips! You are the best! 

Lpfö:

Develop their self autonomy and confidence in their own ability.

Develop their motors 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.

The lilies

The lilies today made pumpkin cut out decorations for Halloween. The kids are really excited to celebrate  Halloween together with their parents next week!

Lpfo: develop their creative abilities and the ability to convey impressions, thoughts and experiences on many different forms such as play, pictures, song and music, dance and drama.

The Sunflowers

In preparation for chemistry day the sunflowers began the process of making an ice house. This was their own idea and connected to our IPC Houses and Homes theme. They worked on putting animals and in water and then in the freezer. Experimenting with ice, water and temperatures. On chmestry day they will use and discuss different methods and ways to get the things out of the ice. 

Lpfö 2018

Develop their ability to distinguish, explore, document, put questions about and talk about science 

The Lilies

The lilies unfortunately were not able to go on their outing to the pirate park this week. However they were able to explore the backyard enjoying the sandpit, learning to ride bicycles and playing with the pretend kitchen. 

Lpfo: 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.

Tulips hand print

Today, tulips were really excited in the art room making the hand print 

craft as a part of our jungle project. They were all curious and excited 

when they saw the paint colors and much fun when they got the paint on their hands.They improved sensory motor skills and sensorial visual skills. Let’s give them the opportunity to explore a new fun environment. Let’s them interacted interacted one of each other by using their own spoken language.

The most exciting for them was when they put their hands into the paint! Oohhhh!!!

Challenging their fine motors skills.

Well done tulips! 

Develop their curiosity and enjoyment as well and fine motors skills.

Develop their self autonomy and confidence on their own ability.

Lilies

The lilies got to go on an outing to the forest. They got to explore the forest and they got to see the mushrooms and snails!

Lpfo: 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.

The Sunflowers

Last week the sinflowers were excited to see the heavy rain! The went for a walk and play around the neighbourhood. Jumping in puddles, counting steps and collect bits of nature to take to the art room. We spoke about how the leaves were falling from the trees and what season this was. Autumn! 

Lpfö 2016

Develop their interest and understanding of the different cycles in nature, and how people, nature and society influence each other 

The Sunflowers

This week the Sunflowers are in charge of their own destiny by filiming their own iMovie. They are able to choose what they want to film and where and when. We told the children at the start of the week so they new what to expect and that it was really them who made the decisions. They came up with lots of ideas. Film lunch. Film rain play. Film their parents leaving them at school.

Lpfö 2016

Develop their ability to identify technology in everyday life, and explore how simple technology works. 

Lilies

Today the lilies got to explore bluebot the robot. They got to learn simple coding using the blue bot to either direct it to go left; right or up and down using the buttons on the robot showing the arrows to go to the fruit of their choice!

Lpfo : develop their ability to identify technology in everyday life and explore how simple technology works.

The lilies

This week we kept talking about our IPC theme food. We printed a big world map and different pictures of traditional food representing all the countries our kids come from. We talked about food coming from different countries and the kids helped us putting the pictures in the map on top of the right country.

Lpfö: develop their understanding of space/ feeling a sense of participation in their own culture and develop a feeling and respect for other cultures.

The lilies

The lilies had their Entry Point last week. As our IPC theme is food we had a picnic outside. The kids got to choose their favorite food and bring it to school to share it with everybody. 

They all enjoyed it very much and loved when it was their turn to show what they had brought.

Lpfö: develop their ability to function individually and in a group

The Sunflowers

As part of our IPC theme “Houses and Homes” we go the sunflowers, who are now beading plate experts to make a home using the beads. They had to take a lot of things into account. How many beads to use, size and thickness so that it would stick when ironed. How many windows in each house, doors? A few even decided to make a skyscraper. Then from this pushed themselves even further and started to make a skyscraper landscape view. The sunflowers are really good at challenging themselves and always bounce ideas of each other. 

Lpfö 96

Develop their ability to build, create and construct using different techniques, materials and tools 

Develop their understanding of space, shapes, location and direction and the basic properties of sets, quantity, order and number concepts, also for measurement 

Lilies

The Lilies had their knowledge harvest, our IPC theme is food so we asked them what food they like, what their parents prepare at home. They all loved to share something about themselves and what they like. They got really excited talking about their favorite foods and asked when we can start cooking together at school. We have a lot of recipes we want to try.

Lpfö: develop their ability to listen, reflect and express their own views and try to understand the perspective of others. 

The sunflowers

Today the sunflowers were introduced to their new hospital area in the pretend room. They played being sick while a team of doctors treated their patients. The hospital was very busy with “sick people”. “It’s an emergency” said Ester. 

Lpfö 96 

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

The sunflowers

Today the sunflowers were introduced to our new IPC theme, Houses and Homes. They spoke and shared what we knew about homes. What materials homes can be built from. We spoke about our own homes, homes around the world. We used VR googles to go around the ice hotel and a basic house. The children then got to draw their fantasy home. 

Lpfö~ 2016 

Develop their ability to listen, reflect and express their own views and try to understand the perspectives of others. 

Tulips

The Tulips have had a great and fun week practicing for the summer party! They have been practicing to hold hands as the song we are singing and dancing to is by the Beatles called ‘I want to hold your hand’. The tulips have been amazing socializing and coordinating with each other to the song as shown below. Stay tuned, it will be a party to remember! 💃

Lpfö: develop their motor skills, ability to coordinate, awareness of their own body as well as the importance of maintaining their health and well-being

Tulips

The tulips today enjoyed a nice sunny day on their outing to the backyard! Now that the weather has been warm and sunny, the tulips got to utilize the backyard which is also a mini playground of the front yard of the school. They got to explore the sandpit making pretend food with the sand and digging into the sand using plastic toy spades. Some of the tulips also got to try to ride the tricycles with the help of a teacher ofcourse!

Lpfo: develop their motor skills, ability to coordinate, awareness of their own body as well as the importance of maintaining their health and well-being.

Sunflowers

SOLAR SYSTEM

The Sunflowers spent lots of time exploring the Solar System
and it’s planets, starting from the outer edge, where Kupier Belt is.
We explored not only planets colours, but also discussed them
one by one during IPC circle times. We’ve seen internal structure,
counted how many moons each has got, discussed their sizes and

compared densities… it’s been a very long journey! We painted
them one at the time over this year, adding personal touches to
them - do they reflect light? Maybe we can use glitter! How do
we paint it so it looks like it’s very windy? What colours

can we mix to get this colour? It’s been a lot of fun and learning,
slowly flying towards the sun.

LPFÖ:

• develop their ability to distinguish, explore, document, put questions about and talk about science

• develop their understanding of science and relationships to nature, as well as simple chemical processes
and physical phenomena

Lilies

The Lilies celebrated Holi Festival together with the Tulips. We prepared by explaining the meaning of this holiday (the arrival of spring, celebration of love and color), we watched a video to give an idea of what we were going to do.
The children wore a big white shirt and got to pick the color they wanted, they dipped their hands in the colored powder and colored their shirt and their friends´shirts. We then all danced to some Bollywood music.

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

Tulips

The tulips together with the lilies last week got to enjoy and celebrate the Holi Festival which is a long running Indian tradition. The kids got to bring a plain white T-shirt which they wore on top of their jackets and once outside they got to dip their hands in a bucket of water and then followed by dipping their hands in another bucket with the color of their choice. They imprinted their handprints with the powdered color on their T-shirt’s or if they wanted on their classmate T-shirt’s as well!

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

Tulips

Today the Tulips had an amazing day out to the forest! Most of the Tulips got on the boogie woogies and a few chose to walk it all the way there and back. When we got to the forest, the kids got to explore the leaves, branches, sticks etc. They also got to bring back a few nature-like souvenirs. The picture below shows two of lovely Tulips on the outing bonding in the forest (love is in the air❤️)

Lpfo: develop their motor skills. Ability to coordinate, awareness of their own body as well as the importance of maintaining their own health and well-being.

EASTER EGG HUNT TODAY! 28/03/18

Today we had fun with our Easter Egg Hunt outside in the yard and backyard. It was all about ICT

and working together. We work in team and we used the IPad to scan different colorful eggs we found in the yard and following the clues we found a basket with chocolate cake made by one of our teacher and eggs made with beads that the Sunflowers made for us!

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

Develop their curiosity and enjoyment.

Develop their motor skills and the ability to co-ordinate.

Tulips

This week the tulips got to visit the pirate park! It’s been a while since they have visited the pirate park thus our tulips were very much so excited to explore the pirate boat/house.

Lpfo: develop their motor skills. Ability to coordinate, awareness of their own body as well as the importance of maintaining their own health and well-being.

Sunflowers

The Sunflowers were fascinated by VR and AR so we researched together and found AR Cards that we can make ourselves! Sunflowers printed the right PDF from an iPad, cut the cards out, prepared laminating sheets and laminated them. They are ready for everyone to use, they really enjoyed trying out something more advanced technology-wise that they made themselves! Way to go, sunflowers!

Lpfö:
• develop their ability to identify technology in everyday life, and explore how simple technology works

Lilies

The Lilies had their weekly Zumba class, practising directions, rhythm, balance and listening skills. They worked on their gross motor skills, practising walking stiff, wobbly, high, low, fast, slow.

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

Tulips

The Tulips got to go to the supermarket to recycle! They got to recycle empty cans and plastic bottles and after they finished they got to use the recycling money to buy fruits of their choosing! Happy Days!

Lpfo: develop their motor skills. Ability to coordinate, awareness of their own body as well as the importance of maintaining their own health. 

Tulips

Today the Tulips got to enjoy an eventful day. One of the things they got to do today is play the piano! Below is a picture of our two up and coming superstars showing us their skills!

Lpfo: 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.

Maths and IT Day 

Lilies work with shapes, numbers, patterns, sizes and they do adding using different little toys…
The 7th of March is “The International Maths Day”. In the morning we made crafts recycling colorful sheets of paper cut into all the shapes that we studied last weeks (triangles, squares, rectangles and circles). We counted together (from 1 to 20) using tiny and big balls and we started to do adding (like 2+2=4).
In the afternoon we had some activities outside! In our first station the game was to find set amount of things (3 spades, 6 baskets, 15 leaves, 7 stones) and bring them back to the teachers. Another activity was to find Snoopy that has the same pattern (if a child had a Snoopy with cherry pattern, he/she needed to find the same). It was very funny for the children because they played <hide and seek> and at the same time they learned patterns and they counted all the different little pictures on Snoopy.

Tulips

The Tulips had an exciting outing this week to the ‘other forest’. They got to explore winter in the forest by running around and jumping in the snow. They got to climb up and down the hill as they explored!

Lpfo: develop their motor skills. Ability to coordinate, awareness of their own body as well as the importance of maintaining their own health and well-being.