1. 1, 2 Buckle my Shoe Presentation from Furugrund October 2007

2. About Furugrund Furugrund Preschool was opened on April 8th 1978. Initially the school had two (2) classrooms. On Agust 1988 a school expansion was taken into operation and now the school has four (4) classrooms; Dropasteinn and Mánasteinn for 3-6 year olds, Álfasteinn and Dvergasteinn for 1-3 year olds. Simultaneously the school can accommodate 80 children.

3. Inside Furugrund – 1 to 3 year old

4. Inside Furugrund – 3 to 5 year old

5. Child development program Learning through play –Play in all its variety is a key element in all child development programs. Learning to communicate –The ability to communicate is fundamental to living, working and playing with others in peace and harmony. Learning by means of creative work and creative thinking –To sense, understand and create is a skill that children need to develop. All preschool layout plans and equipment should be designed to stimulate children’s curiosity, initiative, involvement, interests, pleasure, and to strengthen their independence. Learning through preschool daily routines –Childcare development is an integrated program where, under different circumstances, the child is learning all the time.

6. The Furugrund child development objectives We aim to develop individuals who: are happy and self-confident belief in themselves are helpful and responsible respect themselves and others, despite differences in religious beliefs, life attitudes, race, ethnic origin, culture, and physical abilities.

7. How we will participate in the project In many subjects children can practice mathematics, f. ex. jigsaw, block’s etc.. Children often use mathematics during daily routines, f. ex. When laying dishes on tables, singing, reading, etc. Ones a week the oldest (5 years old) have a special workgroup, learning to work together, in big groups They learn about the phonological in the Icelandic language, mathematics and prepare for the next education level

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10. 3 three

11. We are…

12. ready to participate..

13. Math in Furugrund

14. The subject of October Enumeration - Counting, recognition of numbers, writing of numbers

15. Writing of numbers The children work with their own housenumbers Questions to answer? –What type of house do I live in? –What is my housenumber? –What is the colour of my house? Course: –Walk to their homes –Talk about the number of their house –Draw, cut and paste the house and write the housenumber on piece of paper

16. The group on the way

17. This is my house ! My house is number 9

18. This is my house ! My house is number 43 That’s higher then 9

19. This is my house ! My house is number 70 My house is an apartment building

20. This is my house ! My house is number 17 My house is a single family house

21. This is my house ! My house is number 37 My house is a two- storied terraced house

22. Talking about the houses

23. Drawing the houses

24. Writing down the housenumbers

25. Cutting it out

26. Pasteing the house on a piece of paper

27. This was Writing of numbers in Furugrund

28. Math in Furugrund

29. Counting with the Bee-Bot A programmable floor robot for Early Years and Primary settings. The Bee-Bot is simple and children friendly. It is a perfect starting point for teaching control, directional language and programing to young children. Subject: Learning to counting, through play with the Bee- Bot and use number line

30. What we do is? Throw out the cube

31. Where is three?

32. How do we move it ?

33. You need to push on the button

34. …and it goes to correct place

35. See the video too…..

36. Math in Furugrund

37. Counting with Raisins Subject: Learning to count, through play with raisins What we need is: Raisins and cube

38. ..and then play..

39. I have four

40. Is it right?

41. .. then you can eat all the raisins Umm!! They taste good

42. next round..

45. You can have help from your friend

46. ..and if you don’t like raisins you can use cheerios

48. That’s all you need, You should try this game…

49. Math in Furugrund

50. Counting in daily routines Subject –The children are going to lay dishes, cutlery and glasses on the table’s Questions to answer? –How many children are going to have lunch to day? –How many dishes do you want to lay on the table? –How many knifes are needed? –How many forks are needed? –How many glasses are needed? Course –Four children have the role of waiters and they need to figure out how many tableware they need.

51. Let us start…

52. 1,2,3…..

53. 4,5,6….

54. See how you should do it… Click on the picture