The Lilies

This morning the Lilies spent time learning all about the circle of life! We made our own mini garden. We planted different seeds. Lettuce, cress, Brazilian beans and flowers. Each child got their own mini plot of land and will be responsible for it. They will water it, care for it, give it love and watch their seeds grow. 

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

Sunflowers

Sunflowers: Language and Jolly Phonics

Today was our language day  and the Sunflowers were introduced to one of the letters in the third Jolly Phonics group: O. At circle time they listened to the Jolly Phonics story and practised writing an O in the air with their finger. We mentioned words that begin with the sound  O such as “orange,” “octopus” and “oval” as well as the others  which have O in them, like “hot”, “mop”, “dog” and “pot”.  Then they  practised tracing the letter O. They  also revised the Jolly Phonics group 2 sounds and were invited to create an  -AT word family house where they had to think about sounds which can be put in front of an  -AT suffix to create new words, like “CAT”, “HAT”,”FAT” or even only “AT”.

We have been working on the following Lpfö goals:

“develop their use of spoken language, vocabulary, and concepts, as well as the ability to play with words, relate something, express their thoughts, put questions and put forwards their arguments and communicate with others.”

Daisies Polar animals with different colors

Today we looked at three different polar animals; the polar bear, the walrus and the seal. We talked about what color the animals are; white, brown or grey. The Daisies then got to match the animal with the right color.

Sunflowers

Sunflowers : Outing to Futuraskolan International

Today the children have had a wonderful time at Futuraskolan International. The primary school class greeted our group of shy (at first) Sunflowers.  The children had a buddy to guide them throughout their morning routine.  The children participated in a lesson on the life cycle of a duck and listened to the story entitled “ Are You My Mother”. We had lunch with the class and played outside. We had a wonderful time with the group and our children were very proud of being apart of “Big kids school”!

We have been working on the following Lpfö goals:

“develop their ability to function individually  and in a group, handle conflicts and understand rights and obligations, as well as take responsibility for common rules”

The Lilies

As part of our IPC Food theme this afternoon we spent time talking about best before and sell by dates on food. Why we have them and what they are for. The children then looked through a number of food packaging to see if they could find the sell by date. They did and were very happy! After, we split up into two groups, 8 in children in each group. Each team had a team leader. They drew a plan after talking about they wanted to build. They built a house and a robot using the packaging. 

LPFÖ:

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

Daisies Counting

Today we practised numbers 1, 2 and 3. Since we are focusing on seals this week we let the Daisies put the correct number of seals on the right number. They did a great job!

Tulips - Different Habitats

We introduced the different polar animals as our language activity .Teacher showed the laminated pictures of polar animals like penguins, polar bears, reindeers, seal, walrus etc. The tulips then put the animals on the polar landscape as their habitat.

To recapitulate, the teacher also gave them laminated pictures of many other animals to put them in their right habitat as fishes in Sea, Cows in the farm, lions in the jungle etc. 

Our activity met the following goals, as specified by Lpfö 98- 2010

Develop their use of spoken language, vocabulary and concepts, as well as the ability to play with word, relate something, express their arguments and communicate with others.

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