Dear Parents & Guardians ,

We would like to give a warm welcome to you all, as we returned back to crèche this month.

It has been so wonderful seeing all our Links children again, and it has been great to see that they have settled back so well after being apart from us for the past few months.

We understand that it must be difficult for you as parents to now be restricted when it comes to entering the crèches during drop off and collections, due to the current HSE Covid 19 guidelines. But we hope that, through the photos we share here in our monthly newsletter, the weekly updates and through our social media pages, that you can see what fun the children are all having together in their Pods. They are very engaged in the daily activities we set out for them, and equally we are guided by them when it comes to interests and learning.

Our Educarers listen to the children and with any emerging interests, we will build on a theme based on the children’s interests.  For example, during our Summer theme this month, we spoke about summer holidays, beach days and various items of clothing that one might wear on a hot sunny day. One child then told us that he went camping during his time at home with his family in his back garden. Within an hour, a tent was created, a pretend fire pit “lit”, and camping songs were sung, as we enjoyed a lovely role play all about going camping.

We continue to practice all our safety measures to help keep viruses at bay. Regular hand washing is done, with our children singing their hand washing song whilst doing it. We have included our Hand Washing Song here too, if you wish to practice it at home to with your child.

All our chefs are so happy to see our children back too and they are delighted to be back cooking healthy, homemade and super tasty food for all our children.

Charlie, our Head Chef has shared a recipe in this newsletter with you all for his Chicken Broccoli Pasta dish, which is a big hit with all our children, and which is on our Summer / Autumn dinner menu. As the children love it so much, we thought it would be nice for you to make it at home too for your little ones. We hope you all enjoy.

Best Wishes,

Joanne, Esther & the Links Blackrock Team

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Extra safety measures have been put in place throughout the creche to help keep the spread of Covid 19 at bay.

Toys & all surfaces and items are cleaned regularly and we have hand

sanitisers and wash basins for children, at their height levels, that they can access easily. All our rooms are organised into Pods & our children are settling in nicely into them.

Baby Room News

The babies took part in our Christmas in July Day and Green Day.

The babies have spent lots of time exploring in the garden and getting very creative doing lots of arts and crafts.

They love exploring ice-play and also our sensory bottles.

 

Wobbler Room News

Green Day and Christmas in July was celebrated with our Wobblers this month.

We enjoyed lots of arts and crafts:

  • Fingerprint caterpillar
  • Handprint butterflies
  • Made mini beasts
  • Made instruments
  • A beautiful handprint crab

For Sensory play, we loved our Pom pom play, shredded paper and leaves.

The children had a dancing disco party and we loved our balancing game in the garden also.

Toddler Room News

Our toddlers did lots of dancing to Disney music and races in the garden. We loved our finger and hand painting and for our Green Day, we dressed up in green colours and played football and did lots of soccer artwork.

We love reading the Hungry Caterpillar book and made caterpillars and butterflies to display on our walls.

Preschool Room News

We were delighted to be back together, and we enjoyed lots of different themes this month.

Family – we created a  family wall as a welcome to everyone on being back to creche.

Food – we spoke about all the food we like to eat for dinner, created drawings of a plate and food we like to eat on it too and we cut out grocery shopping from a magazine

Dinosaurs – we painted our own dinosaur, and read stories about dinosaurs too.

Jobs – we made crowns and pretended to be the jobs on our crown

Explorers – We are all little explorers. We made binoculars and searched for the monkeys and lions in our room,

Pirates – Ship art was a big hit, as was making pirate masks, pirate hats, treasure boxes with treasure coins. We also learned about pirates, built our own pirate ship, swords, pirate maps & went on a treasure hunt ,

Jungle – We made an Explorer hat, make a monkey, make a tiger, make crocodile and had a great jungle themed day.

Space – we did rocket art, colouring planets, rockets with our names.

Camping – we shared many stories all about camping in our indoor tent with pretend bonfire and torches,

Restaurants – we made our own menus, spoke about our favourite food and healthy eating, learned about manners in restaurants and made personalised placemats for dinner.

Summer Christmas – we sang songs and made candy canes

Celebrated Summer – we made an indoor beach, beach stories, water play and indoor beach games as it was raining that day. We also made ice creams

Theatre – we talked about favourite tv shows and characters, made puppets, turned our play centre into a theatre, we acted out our favourite story Love Monster. We made tickets for our play, camera, microphones, and lightening. It was like a proper production .

Science – We made a volcano and played with magnets.

 

 

Afterschool Room News

What a joy to see all our afterschool children back together again.

We enjoyed lots of themes together.

Space – we made a Space project, and built and drew rockets, stars, spaceships, aliens.

Sea – for our Sea project, we did lots of drawing, colouring, and cutting out various sea animals. We also made Family Portraits and dream catchers.

We made a Dance routine and competition and enjoyed, Gaa matches, Simon Says, designed a robot, Kick the bucket game and Musical statues.

 

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