What a lovely month we have had during June. As the restrictions have lifted slightly, we are enjoying the stories our children are
telling us, about them meeting up with Grandparents and relatives outdoors.
We shared some lovely moments, engaging in our exciting activities and we made some special memories with our Pre-school
children, as they graduated from Pre-school class. We are so delighted for them, as they soon embark on their next big journey of
Primary School. Before then though, we are looking forward to creating more memories with them during the Summer months.
Special thanks to all our Educarers and staff who made Graduations such a special day for our children, and thank you Chef Polina for
the amazing cake that she made.
We loved our Summer Festival, celebrating the Euros football tournament, and for Fathers Day, we got very creative and made some
lovely cards and artwork for them. 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 June.
Sonja Quinn – Crèche Manager
Photos from our Pre-School Graduation
Activities from our Baby Room
During the month of June, the children learned about Planes, trains, mini beasts and the beach.
They learned about this through different types of play. Our educarers made up the treasure baskets
each week with different items either by colour or by touch and noise. We explored the alphabet and
used our toys and animals in the room to do this. We asked the children to try find a RED toy
emphasizing the letter R- we did this with many letters. We sang the alphabet song. We learned
about different animals using the alphabet- A is for Ant- L is for Lion ETC…. We also learned a lot about
our bodies we spoke about our limbs- arms, legs.
We spoke about our feet to help us to walk, and we spoke about our hands they help us to eat and get
dressed we sang the song if your happy clap your hands. We used our books to help us to use a zip.
Buttons and string. This is great help for our fine motor skills. We were also shown how to try put on our own shoes. This was good for our fine and
gross motor skills.
The children enjoyed our sensory bags filled with paint, shaving foam, rice-cripsies, cooked spaghetti and Jelly. The children love messy play on the floor,
we used coconut, sand, gloop.
Our Wobbler Room News
Throughout June the children used the topics- Food and transport, Water and the weather, nature and movement. The beach
and Music.
The children made a food pyramid and learned about the food group, what is good for you and what you need to eat a little
of. We spoke about healthy eating and fruit and vegetables are the best to eat. The children enjoyed pretend play in the
kitchen area, we were cleaning our fruit and veg, and we explained to them this was important to get them ready to cook
before we ate them. They sang the song “We like to eat eat, eat Apples and Bananas “They children enjoyed playing a
transport game in the garden, they used the colours of the traffic lights to play a start and stop game, we used their ride
along cars in the garden and played traffic lights. We sang songs- “The wheels on the bus” Row, Row, Row your boat”,
Nature and movement- the educarers incorporated these two topics and took movement outdoors, they did lots of exercise
in the garden, yoga and some P.E. The children drew a picture of the garden and the things they found in the garden, Flowers,
Insects, birds. They made flower arts and crafts and played Simon says in the garden. The children used items from the
garden and made a nature arts and crafts Muriel.
Tales from our Toddler Room
In June the toddlers had lots of fun learning about Under the sea, Parts of the body, Professions and traffic lights, Insects
and dancing the children learned about dressing them self’s and practising how to use zips, buttons and Velcro. We used
the mirror for mirror play so they could look at them self’s. Under the sea they made a sea Muriel with lots of different
fish the children created these during arts and crafts. Professions the children learned about the people who help us the
doctor, nurse, postman. We spoke about the jobs our parents have. What they would like to be when they grow up,
Princess mainly!
The children enjoyed the stop and go game with the traffic lights they held the colour sign them self’s and told their
friends when they were allowed to go or stop! This month was full of dancing and playing games also musical statues,
musical chairs, garden games- chasing, stuck in the mud and cars. They also enjoyed hunting for mini beasts and putting
them in the links bug hotel.
Pre-school Room News
The preschool rooms learned about- Dragons/ Unicorns. Shapes and colours. Camping and graduation, around the world. The
clock and our senses.
This month we focused a lot on our graduation as we prepared to say goodbye to our pre-schoolers and welcome them into
summer camp, or to say goodbye to them and wish them all the best with their future and Big School!
The children’s imaginations can run wild and this month it certainly did. They enjoyed wanting to learn about fictional animals
but very much believe they are real, so of course we went along with it. They designed and decorated what their very own
dragon or unicorn would look like some used bubble wrap to make a texture on their dragons and others used glitter to make
their unicorn very sparkly! They spoke about the movie Dragons, and toothless! They made and designed their own dragon/
unicorn masks.
They used items in their room to explore and find shapes and objects around us. And to see if they knew all their shapes. we
made a shape matching game. The children made a caterpillar with a circle shape this was also for our graduation. The
children went to the garden to see if they could find more shapes outside. They made playdough and used the shape cutters
to make different shapes, they also did this when baking and making cookies.
The children spent lots of time making and decorating for their graduation based on the hungry caterpillar, we choose this to
show their growth from a caterpillar, who went through links childcare and learned a lot, they then transformed into a
butterfly, and they are ready to spread their wings and fly on to learn more.
We said goodbye to Hridaya as he moved house and Fiachra Dunne also left as he starts a new school in September. We also
said goodbye to Markus, Herkus, Mia and Erin. We wish them all the best in the future.
After-school Room News
friendship. They were extremely interested in the solar
system and outer space, space crafts, astronauts, and the
planets. They made their very own outer space and learned
the order in which the planets align! They were excited
speaking about going to the moon although none of them
would like to travel there, we spoke about a telescope and
during the night you can see the moon and its craters. We
also spoke about shooting stars and made our own arts and
crafts of a shooting star.
The children also took this to the garden and played a game
of shooting stars, the children lined up as planets and the
shooting star caught one of them and they were out! They
learned new words in Spanish like star(Estrella’s) or planets
(Planetas).
For friendship we spoke about being nice to our friends
sharing with them and making them feel included, bullying is
not nice and can make someone feel very bad. We learned
new words in Spanish for friendship ( amigo) Sharing
(Compartir) Happy (Feliz/ Alegre)
