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To end our project The forest/Teddy we had a Teddy party!

All the children got invitations to the party where they were asked to bring a teddy bear or other stuffed animal.

We had a gathering on our big red carpet where we welcomed Teddy back from his vacation in the forest. We sent him around the ring so that every child got to say hello and they were so cute! They hugged and kissed him, so adorable!

After we talked about what Teddy had done on his vacation the children got to show their own teddy bears and tell us if it had a name. We then put all the teddy bears and stuffed animals on a table, as you can see in the picture. The monkey with the heart around his neck is mine : )

Now it's holiday but we will be bac on Tuesday, at least a few of us.

//Anna

Snow had finally come this week and this was an exciting topic with the children, so I decided to use it in our project.

We recieved another letter from Teddy where he told us that he also had discovered the snow while vacationing in the forest. He had seen that the snow consists of tiny tiny snowflakes and we talked about this with the children and I asked the question what would happen to the snow if we brought it inside with us?

The answers I got was: "It would melt because it's too hot in here" "It would melt"

So we got some snow and watched for snowflakes. The children got to feel the snow in their hands and determend that it's cold and that their thesis was correct; the snow started to melt in their hands.

After this we created our own snowflakes. I had typed out snowflakes from clipart that they got to paint and then we put some glue on them and sprinkled glitter on our snowflakes. They are so beautiful in the windows!

Unfortunately the real snow didn't stick around very long, it melted just as fast as the snow inside...

I made it in "Photostory" and used pictures on the children from when we first got the letters and when we collected cones in the forest and painted the cones. I must say that I love "Photostory", it's such a great program to make films. It's easy, quick and fun! And the result feels so professional :)

In this film I was the vioce for Teddy and he wanted to thank the children for helping him out. We watched the film twice and the reply from the children was amasing, they seemed to love it and they now ask for Teddy every day.

Yesterday the children got to paint something from when we collected the cones or when we painted them. This activity and the film were suppose to give them he opportunity to reflect.

other perspectives than the own, (p. 10 Swedish curriculum Lpfö98)

Today my colleague had planned an exciting gathering where we discussed our letters, sang the alfabet song and the children got to go on a letter hunt. My colleague had placed letters everywhere in the room and the children where super excited over collecting theese. After writing several messages to Teddy on the whiteboard the children got to right on both paper and the computer. We have a lot of younger children but this was a fun way to try this out and to get to know our letters and we discussed which letter our name starts with.

We got this mailbox this week. So now we can really answer Teddy's letters : )

The Children were so focused when we visited the forest this week. They talked about it all morning:

On the way there we sang the "Elephant song" and found a beautiful branch, covered with frost:

When we arrived to our spot the started collecting cones and they thought it was so much fun that they didn't only collect 2 each, we had the whole basket full : )

Yesterday a new letter from Teddy arrived  where he asked if we wanted to help him decorate the cones so that they would look more beautiful. Of course the children wanted to help Teddy and we painted the cones in lovely colors as you can see;

Today at our daily gathering on the carpet, something odd and exciting happended:

We recieved a letter. A big envelope with both a letter and 2 pictures in it.

The letter were from our little friend "Teddy". (Teddy is a small teddybear that always says god morning to the children and they love him).

Teddy wrote to tell us that he's on a vacation in the forest, visiting his friends; the moose, spider, snake, bird and he told us of his new hobbie; collecting cones. Evedently he's trying to collect as many as he can but he finds it difficult to bring them all back to us. So he asked us for help:

Super exciting and the children had big eyes when the letter arrived this morning. So, tomorrow we're going to the forest to collect cones and we will see what happends later...

Igår höll jag den första samlingen i temat skogen.

Jag valde att ha fokus på något som barnen sett och visat intresse för under startnyckeln, den här gången blev det kottar och ekorrar. Det pedagogiska syftet för samlingen blev att stärka gruppen genom att visa respekt för sina vänner genom att vänta på sin tur. Detta uppnåddes genom att barnen först fick skicka runt vår lilla kompis Nallen (Vi har en morgonrutin under våra samlingar där barnen får säga god morgon till Nallen). Även när vi började prata om kottar fick de skicka 2 olika sorters kottar emellan varandra. I det här fick de öva på att vänta på sin tur att få Nallen/kottarna, inte springa fram och ta dem av någon annan, och även öva på att kunna släppa saken och skicka vidare dem till sin kompis bredvid.

Vi tittade på bilder på kottar och ekorren och kände på kottarna medan vi samtalde om vilka olika sorters kottar det finns och hur de ser ut när ekorren har ätit på dem.

De nya sångkorten användes och vi målade ekorrar efter samlingen.

//Anna.

Idag hade vi temats startnyckel där barnen fick gå en upplevelsevandring på vår enhet. Vandringen skulle lyfta de 4 elementen och barnen skulle få använda alla sina sinnen. När de klev in  möttes de av en skogsmiljö där de kunde lukta och känna på kottar, pinnar, löv, barr mm. och klappa en liten gosebjörn i en grotta. I rummet spelades det musik från skogen med kvittrande fåglar.

Sedan fick de gå igenom ett regnbågsdraperi där vinden blåste för att sedan gå på en bro över vatten för att komma in till vattenrummet där de spelades vattenmusik och barnen kunde känna på vattnet i vattenbordet med fiskar i. Vi gick vidare till nästa rum där vi satte oss runt en sprakande lägereld och åt blåbär ur kåsor.

I sista rummet samlades vi när alla hade gått vandringen (vi delade in barnen i grupper om 5) och där hade 2 av mina kollegor förberett en jättefin power point presentation på bilder från skogen. Vi tittade på denna och som avslutning så gestaltade vi sången "I ett hus vid skogens slut".

Jätte härlig startnyckel med många intryck och väldigt bra respons från barnen. De var nyfikna och jag tror det var lagom med 5 barn i grupperna så att de hann se sig omkring och även att jag som pedagog hann samtala med dem om det vi såg. Däremot kan jag tycka att det blev lite rörigt i slutet när alla barn var samlade, kanske borde man ha haft en varsin startnyckel på varje avdelning. Sedan kan jag tycka att själva städningen efteråt tog en del tid, det kändes lite rörigt med alla saker som hängde kvar under dagen pga tidsbrist, därför tror jag det hade vart bättre med mindre saker. Annars tycker jag det var jätte lyckat och det känns som det gav oss en del att spinna vidare på.

//Anna.