In this newsletter, we have shared some insight into the activities from each of our rooms that has taken place during the month of April. We hope you enjoy browsing through them.
Easter, Earth Day, Space Day and Picnics were all enjoyed by our children and they loved the different types of activities.
Sarah Spencer
Creche Manager
Activities from our Baby Room
This month we have really enjoyed activities related to earth, nature, space, Easter and picnics.
Earth and nature: We used our handprints to create a picture of the globe. The children love to get messy with the different colours and using them to take a pretty picture to display on our classroom wall. We went out to the garden and explore the different materials out there, such as sticks, leaves, muck. We collected these and we brought them into our room to create a nature collage. We played with sand and soil as a sensory activity, the children loved to sit in the box and to feel the sand/soil in between their toes.
Space: we loved to explore different textures and colours of rocks to symbolise the moon and planets. We coloured pictures of the different planets and recalling the colours as we use them. We loved to sing songs about space and being an astronaut.
The babies love to have a singsong and dance at the end of their day, they are amazed to watch the disco light flashing around the room.
Stories from our Wonderful Wobbler Room
We had a fantastic month in the Wobbler room, we had activities based around Fairy tales, chocolate, food, and Easter.
Fairy tales: for this topic, we read books of all the Disney fairy tales. The children loved this as it provides them with the opportunity to link experiences at home on their tv with being in creche.
Food; the children loved making a food pyramid out of cardboard and displaying it in their classroom. We painted some recyclables materials and added them to a healthy and unhealthy diagram on our wall.
The children were very excited about Easter this year, we created easter eggs using salt dough and painted them bright colours. The children read a story about the easter bunny and what happens when he/she comes to our house!
Tales from our Toddler Room
Toddlers have been very busy this Easter exploring topics such as Family, Food, Easter and The Earth! We have all been prepping for our visit from the Easter Bunny and for one of our favourite days Space Day!
It was a great month filled with lots of sensory activities including sand, water, play dough, colouring our own rice and chickpeas, and making salt dough!
Family: We created a wall dedicated to our family pictures and photos. We also created our own pictures of family using paper plates, paint and sticks! We dedicated time for each child to speak about their families using their photos or pictures. The children really loved this! During this week we also got to explore outer space for space day!! We mad our very own astronaut hats using tinfoil (which was kindly gifted to us by Charlie) and we also made our very own moon using cardboard!
Food: The second week we decided to experiment with different types of food each day. We baked muffins and cheese and ham croissants (so yummy!) and we also carried out lots of sensorial activities with food exploring the different tastes and textures.
Easter: We were all hopping mad in Toddlers for our Easter week! We loved singing and dancing to our favourite song Sleeping Bunnies! We also got busy in the kitchen yet again and made our own Easter eggs using salt dough. We decorated them with lots of glitter and paint and got to bring them home to show our families!
The Earth: We love upcycling in our class, so we used some milk cartons and yogurt pots to create our own musical instruments! We borrowed some rice and chickpeas from Charlie so we could make some fun noises! We decorated our instruments with lots of paint and feathers!
Pre-School Room News
This month in pre-school we had a busy month! We have loved the weather getting warmer and being able to bring activities outside! We love bringing the cars, Lego, water play and many more outside!
Some of the topics we have explored this month are:
Pre-school 1
Travel: the children loved to create their own passports that they used to role play going on holidays! The children loved to share their personal experiences with their friends.
Easter: we are so excited for the easter bunny to come this year! We have made plenty of easter crafts including cards, bunny’s, easter baskets and bonnets. The children loved putting these into their scrapbooks and bringing them home before the easter bank holiday!
European countries: the children created their own map of Europe. They used their passports and role played being in the airport going to Spain. We loved making a flag for Spain, Ireland, and Ukraine. The children helped to make a suitcase out of a cardboard box, and we put the ‘summer essentials’ into it.
Pre-school 2
This month we were extremely busy with our extra-curricular activities such as Spanish, baking and dancing. We love to have a disco and play musical chairs!
This month some of the topics we explore were:
Personal hygiene; as the children are preparing for ‘big’ school we thought it would be a positive learning experience to teach them all about handwashing, toilet etiquette, sneezing etiquette, washing your hair/teeth etc. The children loved to talk about brushing their teeth and the colour of their toothbrush!
The circus: the children loved to talk about the circus after they saw photos of their friend Cameron going with his family! We made crafts of the different animals we see in the circus, played with animals in sand and water and even made some streamers that Cameron saw being used as part of one of the acts!
Literacy, as the children are preparing for primary school they are interested in literacy, and they are beginning to recall and name the letters of the alphabet. We did a lot of writing exercises including tracing and writing letters of the alphabet using different materials like pencils, makers, crayons, paint, and glitter! The children had an absolute blast doing this!
Pre-school 3
We have been extremely busy enjoying P.E in the garden and baking every week! The children have begun to memorise the recipes and they are able to tell Conor and Elena how much is too much and what is not enough!
Some of the topics explored by the children this month has been Countries, Holidays, and the seasons.
The seasons: we love to look out the window and fill our weather chart every day. We started to draw what we see out the windows and displayed them in our classroom! We used different tones and colours to symbolise each season i.e., green, orange and red.
Travel: the children loved to make flags of different countries around the world we made a flag for Poland, Ireland, Spain, and Ukraine. The children used card and paint to create a plate of traditional Spanish and Irish food! They loved discussing their favourite meals and what they do not like to eat.
After-School Room News
This month we have done a lot of messy play activities. The children love to get a palette and select the paint to use for their picture. The children love this time to express themselves and use their imagination. The children love to make coloured playdough, slime, and sand.
The children love to create cards for Easter. These included easter cards, bunny rabbits and an easter bonnet. The children loved to share stories about what eggs are their favourite and what eggs they have gotten in the past.
The afterschool’s love to play in the tent, as the weather is changing, we get to bring toys and the tent outside. The children enjoy this time as they can play different type of roleplay games like having a picnic as the weather is beginning to get better. This allows the older children to explore and experience the different things we began to do in the summer.
