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.
Clara Brennan and Joanne Doyle
Creche Managers
Activities from our Baby Room
April has been a busy month for us in the Baby Room. We met our new friend Hannah and welcomed her to the room.
We started the month exploring different textures through our caterpillar made from feathers, cotton, paint and paper, and we tried lemons too. Some of us made a funny face while eating them because they tasted bitter.
The second week of the month we decided that we wanted to explore far away from here and we made a rocket to travel to the stars and other planets! We turned our jungle gym into a maze and met some interesting creatures called aliens.
But that is not all! We can’t forget the best part of the month; Easter! It was very exciting getting to meet the Easter Bunny. We decorated our room with colourful eggs and we made a mask with bunny ears.
The weather is getting better and better every week and we are very excited to enjoy the garden more often now!
Stories from our Wonderful Wobbler Room
In April we had so much fun. The sun is shining and the weather is getting warmer, and that can only mean one thing – that Spring is here!
We love to spend more time in the garden making new little friends such as worms, ladybugs and butterflies. We were feeding them with leaves and watering them with a syringe. We also made animal puppets to bring home with us and little fish made out of flour and water! We made the shape with our fingers, and then our teachers baked them in the oven. We painted them with so many colours, they looked great!
We were delighted to celebrate Easter in Crèche. We made a huge Easter egg to decorate the room with different materials and a card to wish mum and dad a Happy Easter.
Tales from our Toddler Room
Junior Toddlers
What a month for us in the Toddler room! We did not stop, we had lot of fun activities and played so many games.
We dressed up as princes and princesses, had tea and biscuits, made a crown and did a parade in the garden. We also made castles, some of them with Lego blocks and other ones out of sand. We explored the different nationalities of our friends: Irish, Italian, Spanish, Romanian, Indian, making flags for all of them.
Our toddlers loved painted a big mural to decorate our room, representing all forms of transports, which as airplanes and helicopters flying in the air, boats sailing in the sea, and trains and cars going through the city. We also made a race track in the garden riding our bicycles – we are super-fast! We love to discover new places and different ways to go.
In Easter, we prepared our own baskets to collect Easter eggs and made an Easter hunt outside. There were eggs everywhere! Down the slide, behind the mud kitchen, at the bottom of the tree… We could barely hold all of them in our hands.
We are looking forward to seeing what the next month has prepared for us!
Senior Toddlers
Senior Toddlers have been keeping very busy this month, they have been watching all the birds up in the garden they spoke about all the different birds they saw and the different colour feathers they had. They brought their magnifine glasses to the garden to keep an eye out for little insects and bugs, they made a display for all of the pictures and art of all the insects they created. They discussed where all the different insects live and what they eat during the day.
They made a bus in the class and took different trips looking out for animals and insects, they took a trip to the zoo, safari, farm, and the aquarium. They spoke about all the different animals they would see and all of the differences between each trip. They made their own forest and made different forest animals to put on their display, they made bears, deer, bunnies, and owls.
They were doing a lot on sports and different physical activities, they made their own footballs out of recycled newspaper and paper to use inside on rainy days, they really loved playing different garden games like duck duck goose, chasing, races and had lots of fun making a road and tracks to race around on the bikes.
There was lots of talk about all of the different buildings and places in our community, they all love the Fire station and Police station, using their dress up they had great fun roleplaying police and fire men/ladies. They even saw a fire truck drive past the creche and were so excited.
All the children were super excited about the easter bunny coming to visit and really enjoyed making lots of different art activities, they made their own easter bunny and a lovely easter basket fully of lots of yummy looking easter eggs.
Pre-School Room News
Pre-school
Our Pre-school classes have been super busy this month with all the rain recently they have been really interested in why it rains and how it starts, we made rain bag to show how rain works, they made a weather display with all of the different types of weather we get, they made rain drops, the sun and some stormy clouds. We made sensory bottles filling them with different objects and water to listen to the different sounds and movements. They did lots of different water experiments using wooden sticks and washing up liquid and watched them jump around in the water.
We had a Superhero party and made lots of different costumes, masks, and artwork. All the children spoke about their favourite superhero and explained to their friends what their superpower was. They had superhero races in the garden and role-played saving all of their friends in the class. They had lots of fun singing and dancing to superhero songs and talking all about their favourite superpower. They even wrote their own book about a super dog and all of the different powers he had and all of the different ways he used his powers to help people.
With the weather getting nicer there has been a lot of discussion around Spring/ Summer, and the different clothes we would wear when its warm. We spoke about what we would wear to the beach and what we would need to bring with us. One thing the children noticed was that we wear hats in winter and in summer and had a great discussion on how they’re different and how they protect us in different ways. We played bingo to learn all of the different summer clothes and made our own life size body and coloured it with lots of rainbows and summer colours. They spoke all about different insects that we see, they were very interested in the butterflies and bees, we spoke all about the life cycle of a butterfly and all the different changes that happen throughout their life. They made their own butterfly life cycle using paper plates and pasta, and lot of butterflies using different painting methods. They made bees and beehives and spoke all about the process of making honey.
We had lots of mad scientists in our preschool rooms they all really loved making their scientist costumes and masks and had lots of fun making a huge mess making all of their different experiments. They made their own potion book and really enjoyed mixing lots of different ingredients together to see what they can make.
Naíscoil
Our Naíscoil class have been very busy this month learning all about space, they made a space display with all of the planets, space rockets, aliens, and all the moons and suns. They learned a new planet song and had great fun role playing being in a space rocket going to space, they made alien headbands and had great fun dancing and singing like aliens.
We spoke all about earth, how big it is, how far away it is from the sun, moon and other planets, we spoke about all of the different ways we can take care of Earth. This in turn sparked a conversation about recycling and all of the different bins we have and all of the different objects that go in each bin. We spoke a lot about Ireland what it looks like and where it can be found on the map of the world, we made lots of flags and did lots of practice on our Irish.
Up in the garden the children have been seeing lots of new insects around like butterflies and bees, we have been talking all about the life cycle of the butterfly and how it turns from a caterpillar into a butterfly and how long it takes.
One if the children had been telling his friends that when he was out for a walk in the mountains, he had seen some tadpoles swilling in a small pond. We spoke all about tadpoles and frogs and all about their life cycle.
After-School Room News
Our afterschool children have really been enjoying playing lots of new games in the class this month, their teachers have been introducing them to different traditional Spanish games they used to play when they were children in school, they’ve also been very busy doing lots of races and P.E games up I the garden with the weather getting nicer and warmer.
Celebrating Easter, the children got very involved in making lots of different arts and crafts for our reception display. Thy had great fun with their Easter egg hunt around the class and in the garden, they had great fun hiding their egg crafts for their friends to find.
They have been having great fun in in their Easter camp playing lots of different games and lots of different competitions being held such as Easter egg design competition, they held a talent show and had lots of fun showing off all their different talents for their friends. They played pin the tail on the bunny and an Easter egg toss game.
They have been practicing different dances and have been teaching all of their friend’s new dance routines. They have been learning some Irish dancing and different hip hop moves.
