Finally, the summer is here! The days are getting brighter and the evenings are getting longer too. With restrictions changing and
people able to meet extended family members outdoors, it feels like a very welcoming change.
Our children had such fun during our monthly events in May. They were so engaging and took a real interest in our curriculum topics.
We loved Firefighter Day, International Nurses Day and World Baking Day and for Rock N Roll Day, we had such fun dancing and
singing! We are delighted now have all our children back together. Each day is different and we make such it is jam packed with lots of
fun. Keep an eye out on our Social Media Channels for photos of our daily activities.
In this newsletter, we have shared some insight into the activities from each of our rooms that has taken place during the month of
May.
At the end of May, over 70 members from Team Links took part in a Links 10KM Fun Run, were over €2000 was raised for The Jack &
Jill Foundation. Thank you to you all for sponsoring and supporting us in raising these much needed funds for a very worthy cause.
Daniele Silva – Crèche Manager
Activities from our Baby Room
Our babies have been enjoying lots of fairy tale stories and singing different songs.
Miriam created some finger puppets and she did some role-play with our babies, using the stories as a guide.
They also painted a fairy forest, and our Educarers display a big sheet on the floor so the children can colour and express themselves using different parts of their bodies and different colours.
The children were also busy exploring different textures (rough, soft, shiny, etc) and they created a book including different textures, where which page represents one texture.
Our Wobbler Room News
For our Space theme activity, our Wobblers did an activity in which we explored the names of the planets in English and in Spanish too.
For Earth Day we made a circle on cardboard, and the children painted it blue to represent the Earth and glued leaves representing the planet earth.
During National Picnic Day, we role-played having a picnic in class and even brought some toys outside where we roleplay with plastic food and plates from the kitchen.
For Fire Fighters Day, we make sensory bags with the colours of fire: orange, yellow and red and the children were exploring these colours throughout the week.
Tales from our Toddler Room
Our Toddlers were very interested about books and fairy tales, so we read famous fairy tales and role played too. We enjoyed some water activities and helped to wash our baby
dolls.
They were also interested in our Summer theme and playing the role of hairdressers too, taking turns to role play as hairdressers and customers getting a new hair style.
For our Nature and animals theme, we created a house for the animals in our garden and he did lots of messy play using the animals to enhance our learning and play.
We love going to the beach with our families, so we talked about this in Links and played with water and sand. We loved to pretend we are at the beach.
Pre-school Room News
Preschool One
Our Educarers created lots of fun arts and crafts in relation to space. We created our very own aliens using googly eyes,
feathers, and glitter. We also created our very own galaxy using black paint and adding lots of stars and splats of paint.
The children also created some mosaic space ships to add to our art gallery. We created alien using multi-coloured
playdough and used them in our theatre. The children really loved using their imagination this week!
We based Insects topic due to the increase of insects coming into summer and the children love looking for insects during
garden time. We created ladybirds, caterpillars and bumblebees using stones and used toy insects to role-play.
The children really enjoyed this! We borrowed a book about insects and all children loved looking at it.
Educarer Rachel used cardboard to cut out the shape of an octopus for our Sea Life theme. The children painted the life size octopus and decorated him with lots of spots! We then
hung him on display on our art gallery wall. We used the art gallery wall as an aquarian adding seaweed, stones, fish and of course octopus. We also did some sensory play by filing
boxes with water and sand and the children added sea creature toys from the classroom
The children did some arts and crafts about Summer, and made art ice pops and decorated them with sprinkles and lollipop sticks. We used our sandbox to create a beach roleplay
and they can make their own sandcastles using a bucket and spade, we also created shapes using crepe paper and our own suns using paper plate.
In Preschool 2, we enjoyed a lovely Summer and played with sand, water play beach role-play. We pretended to go to the beach for our holidays.
We are currently really enjoying the story book Cineralla, and we drew pictures about this story too.
Baking is one of our favourite things to do. We made cookies, cupcakes and biscuits and practised our measuring skills.
Our children learned more Spanish word too. They learned how to say Hello in Spanish, as the colours too. We love to move and dance, we had lots of fun dancing to all
the music that we love. For PE, we had some relax races and obstacle courses outdoors.
After-school Adventures
For Earth Day, our After-school children spoke about all the little changes that makes a big difference to our planet we
designed our earth poster. We loved our baking time and we painted sea animals for our Under the Sea theme.
To celebrate Picnic Day, we had our tea outside and had great fun in the sun doing gymnastics and an obstacle course. We
also made dreamcatchers too.We spoke about how important firefighters are in our community and we did some art work to go along with this topic. The
children loved our fun Friday disco and we painted our fire engine truck and went around the dance floor on it.
