Pedagogisk dokumentation
Idag började jag på en kurs i Pedagogisk Dokumentation och den var så inspirerande å intressant!!
Vill tillbaka till jobbet å tänka om, inspirera, vara nyfiken medforskare med barnen, dokumentera ett lärande med fokus på processer!
Såhär kreativa fick vi vara idag 😀
Pippis guldpengar
Såhär fint kan de bli när det ges möjlighet till skapande 😃 våra minsta som blev sugna, härligt!
Idag hade jag min grupp, som heter Pippigruppen. Det är med några av våra minsta och som ni kanske förstår så är det Pippi Långstrump som gäller. Idag pratade vi om Pippis kappsäck; vi tittade i en som jag gjort där det fanns guldpengar!! Vi räknade till 20 guldpengar, och sen målade vi egna av träcirklar och guldfärg.
Skapande för de minsta
Hittade på den här gamla bloggen å blev glad när jag läste allt kul jag gjorde med barnen på min gamla fsk. Det har känts tungjobbat ett tag men nu ska jag försöka hitta inspiration igen å bli taggad!! 😀
På min avdelning har vi ett pysselrum anpassat för de äldre barnen, med material som saxar, små pärlor mm. Och förra veckan när jag hörde de stora barnen högt protestera när ett yngre barn klev in tänkte jag: "vilka skapandemöjligheter ger vi de mindre barnen?"
Jag har googlat för tips å idéer å försökt ta fram material som ska inspirera till skapande å finnas lättillgängligt för barnen. Självklart måste vi pedagoger vara mer delaktiga i de små barnens skapande. Jag har tex inte lagt fram flaskfärger, men penslar, för att inspirera till målande. Första dagen med hörnan gick en pojke på ca 1,5 år fram till penslarna å bad att få måla med dem. Självklart hakade 4 stycken andra barn på den aktiviteten 😀
Nordic winter play
Today we played outside with the children, it was extremely cold but so beautiful with the sunshine!
And with the right cloths everyone can be outside, typical Swedish motto : )
This is how beautiful our yard is during winter time : )
What a great place for kids to play in!
Animal story
Monday morning and the children can be quite sad and tired so we decided to make the morning gathering more exciting and fun. I took out our drum and the children got to play on the drum and we sang songs together.
And then I read a story about "Ludde and the animals" on our Flano board. They loved to name the animals for me and to imitate the animal´s sounds : )
In my group, after the gathering, we talked about balloons, when you can get one and what they look like and the children showed real joy for balloons! They kept on shouting; Balloons, balloons! So cute! Next time I need to bring some real balloons for them to play with! : )
They then got to color balloons on a paper that we will put up on our wall.
Geometri fun
Today we held focus on maths geometric forms:
circle, rectangle, square and triangle.
We talked about what the forms look like and searched for the forms in other things, in the room. We found them in our carpet for example. After the gathering we divided the children into smaller groups where they got to build figures and other things from the geometric forms and my group got to paint circels and glue them on to a black paper.
This is how beautiful our wall got : )
Goldy singing
This is a fun way to get the children participating in the singing gathering:
I placed some of my song cards, upside down on the floor and put a goldy see through cloth over them, the cloth alone created a big excitement : )
Then each child got to pick a card under the cloth and we sang the song that the card showed. This was also a great opportunity to talk about what happens in the songs. In this way the children got to reflect over what the songs really mean and not only sing the words.
Walk in the sunshine
Today it finally stopped raining so we took a walk in the forest, it's so great to have this big forest near the kindergarten.
At the walk we found ice on the ground that the children played with. They discovered that the ice breaks when you jump on it, very exciting!
We also found this tree that someone had decorated so beautiful : )
Teddy party
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
Snowflakes
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...
The first candle
Today we celebrated first Advent by "lighting" the first candle, and now it's an offical countdown till christmas! : )
After this we sang christmas songs and ate some fruit.
Just love christmas, can't wait!!! :)
Reflecting & Writing
To continue on our project the forest/Teddy we started the week with watching a film that I made.
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.
The pre school should strive for that every child:
Develops an understanding for listening, reflecting and expressing own perception and try to understand
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 : )
On a mission
The Children were so focused when we visited the forest this week. They talked about it all morning:
"We´re going to collect cones for Teddy".
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;
Incoming letter
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:
Can you help me collect 2 cones each from the forest and bring them back to the kindergarten?
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...
Animal singing
Today, before lunch, I gathered the children on the carpet to sing some songs.
It felt like the right time because they were hungry and we had some time before lunch would be ready.
To make it more fun I used our "Flano" board and some of our animals with velcro on the back.
We talked about the different animals; what there called, how they sound and we sang songs about the animals.
We sang songs about all of theese animals and when we sang the song about the jumping monkey's we also talked some math and counted the monkey's.
Really a great gathering and happy children before lunch!
