As the Autumn season truly kicked in, we enjoyed lots of lovely fun learning. We loved learning about the Farm, Autumn colours and materials and
transport too. We celebrated Halloween towards the end of the month with lots of Halloween arts and crafts, games and Dress Up Days.
Our children also loved Pet Day and learning all about different world cuisines during World Food Day. During Beep Beep Day and Road Safety
Week, we did lots of games and activities to help us learn about the importance of road safety.
As always, 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 October. We
hope you enjoying browsing through them.

Elma Gicevic – Crèche Manager

Stories from our Wonderful Wobbler & Toddler Rooms

At the start of October, our Wobbler/Toddlers emerging interest was Transport. They focused on the different vehicles and
sounds they make. Children explored vehicles such as cars, boats, train, planes, trucks, tractors through arts and crafts and
through play in the garden.
Children also learned some new words during the flash cards and story time. On the 8th of October children enjoyed Beep
Beep Day in the garden. They had a race and enjoyed lots of games with their toy cars and trucks.
Our children also showed an interest in Farm animals. They had lots of fun during arts and crafts time. They loved painting,
gluing, sticking. On the 13th of October we celebrated Pet Day, and we were showing our friends pictures of our pets. We
made cat masks, and the children enjoyed playing and making cat sounds.
The children continued to show great interest in Transport learning. They loved painting with cars, trucks, and tractors
wheels. They had fun playing with things that go around in wheels. We enjoyed story time and particularly the “Dig, Dig
Digging” story.
On October 20th we celebrated World Food Day and made Torrijas.
Last week of October was Halloween week. We had a great time painting posters and decorating our room for Halloween. We
made some lovely Halloween arts and crafts. On 28th of October we had our 101 Dalmatian Dress Up Day, and it was such
fun.

 

 

Pre-School Room News

Preschool 1
First week of October children’s emerging interest was Jungle animals. It was a colourful week in preschool 1 room. Our
children made parrots, lions, snakes and elephants. We learned “Jungle animals” song during music and movement time
outside.
We had a great Beep Beep Day. We learned about traffic lights, colours and how to be safe of the roads. We had lots of fun
during on the road pretending activities outside where we pretended to drive cars, we had our own traffic lights and
crossroads made in the garden, and we learned how to cross the road safe.
The second week of October was “The Gruffalo” theme of the week as children showed great interest in the Gruffalo story.
Children enjoyed making a Gruffalo and a mouse from the book.
This week children had lots of activities with farm animals. We made a farm house and we also sang “Old Mc Donald had a
farm” song during the week. For Pet Day we had a visit from Mirabela dog Dixie.
We were so busy with Halloween arts and crafts as we were preparing for Halloween. We made decorations and masks for
our Halloween party. On Friday 22nd was our Dress Up Day. Children’s emerging interest this week was sea animals too.
We made Puffer fish, sting ray. We played many games with sea animals figures we have in our interest corner. We also
sang lots of songs related to this week’s theme during our arts and crafts time. On 20th of October we celebrated World
Food Day and made yummy Torrijas.
The last week of October was super fun! We had one more Halloween party. We made our own costumes for 101
Dalmatians theme. Children’s emerging interest this week was Peppa Pig. Children love Peppa Pig, George, George’s
dinosaur puppets. We made a house that children could play with the Peppa Pig puppets. On Thursday 28th we made
cupcakes with nice icing during our baking time.

 

 

Preschool 2
October was full of fun! The first week we explored volcanos. Our children heard on the news that Spanish Volcano in
La Palma Island had erupted and then we watched some videos about Lava.
In our preschool 2 class we made a volcano experiment with baking soda and vinegar. We also made Lava slime. We
also celebrated Beep Beep Day! We had lots of fun in the garden riding bikes and using the traffic lights. Everybody
knows green means go, red means stop.
The second week we learned everything about Jungle animals. We loved to use the jungle animals’ masks that we have
in our interest corner and role play as our favourite jungle animals. We learned how to play Domino with our favourite
animals . As part of our monthly curriculum, we had fun exploring Farm animals. We made a nice sheep with a wool
and a red farm where we drew all the farm animals. On October 13th we celebrated the Pet Day. Our children brought
their pets pictures and we talked about how to take care of our pets during our meeting time.
The third week of October we discovered Agrabah, the magic city where Aladdin, Jasmine and the Genie had all their
adventures. We made lovely arts and crafts about the magic lamps and magic carpets. We talked about which three
wishes we would ask Genie to grant us. One of the wishes was a real farm and a bouncy castle. On Wednesday 20th of
October, we celebrated World Food Day. We baked torrijas, a Spanish dessert made with bread, milks sugar and
cinnamon.
For the fourth week of October we enjoyed celebrating the most spooky celebration Halloween! We decorated our
rooms and crèche with vampires, ghosts, pumpkins. We made our own witch and our own Frankenstein using recycling
boxes, and carved our own pumpkins.
On Thursday 28th of October children got to dress up as Dalmatian puppies for our Halloween theme this year – 101
Dalmatians. Our Educarers were dressed up as puppies too and some of them were Cruella

After-School Adventures

Children in our After-school room were busy with playing lots of different games outside during our P.E and music and
movement time.
We enjoyed baking time too.
They loved Halloween arts and crafts time and helping decorate our creche for Halloween.
The last week of October children had lots of fun at the after-school Halloween camp.
Children had Halloween Olympics outside, arts and crafts quiz. They enjoyed Halloween baking and Halloween art design
competition.
On Friday 29th children loved Links got talent Finale and Spooky Treasure Hunt.