Activities from our Baby Room
· Family photo and playing together
Our children spent lots of time doing sensory play with sensory bags stuck onto the windows, with paint, jelly foam, water. They really enjoyed this activity. They also loved the
Food Jelly messy play as they got to taste the strawberry jelly.
They sat in the corner and focused on their family photos and spoke about mam and dad, and whoever were in the photographs. We also enjoyed spending time out in the
garden.
·Mother’s Day, Sensory play and clothes
The children made lovely Mother’s Day arts and crafts, we hope all the mammies enjoyed it, and had a wonderful day! We used our treasure baskets and turned them into texture
baskets and colour baskets. We put different textures for half of the week and changed it to items all of the same colour (Orange) for the second half of the week.
We spoke about clothes and when we were getting dressed after sleep, we spoke to them about socks and shoe, hats and gloves for the garden.
·St Patrick’s Day / Expressions
We focused on facial expressions with the children as they are so badly missing out with us having to wear masks and they cannot see us smiling to them properly or making silly
faces! We used flash cards to show the children and spent time at the mirror so they could look at their own facial expressions. We spent time in the book corner reading.
Stories from our Wonderful Wobbler Room
Likes and dislikes & Cars
For this topic, we spoke to the children about things they like and dislike, we spoke about food and showed them flash cards of apples and bananas to see if they liked them
or not. We showed them pictures of animals to see what animals they liked. We took out toys and asked them which toys they preferred to play with… a lot of them choose
messy play.
We made a car track using a box, and we drew a road and go/stop sign. We pretended to be cars and made car noises driving around the room. We looked at the cars and what
you find in them, windows that go up and down, seat belts to keep us safe.
·Animals and Sensory
We spoke about the different types of animals, and ones that live in the Zoo, on a Farm and also wildlife animals.
We painted pictures of a lion, a penguin and a dog. We took the sand try into our room and have transformed it into a sensory tray which we change and update a couple
of times during the day and filled with water or pasta, sand or leaves from the garden.
Maeve from our Wobbler Room was talking about umbrellas as it was raining and we made umbrella arts and crafts with paper plates and lollipop sticks, we decided to
speak about the weather and went on to making clouds and a sun when the rain goes away!
Sounds and Construction
We spoke to the children about different noises that we hear during the day, like the noise of a car, a bird, an aeroplane a house alarm- We coloured in pictures of the
things we hear daily. We got the children to make these noises car makes a broom noise, or a beep beep. We made our own shaker bottles and filled them with rice
and pasta. We turned on some music and danced to the songs we love (If your happy and you know it) is their favourite.
We used Lego to build big buildings and castles. The children also used Sticks and crepe paper to make a 3d building picture.
For St Patricks day we made lots of arts and crafts, painted shamrocks and made cards for mammy and daddy.
Tales from our Toddler Room
The Sky
The children were out in the garden looking to the sky and were asking questions, so we decided to use this as a theme for the week. We spoke about things we see in the
sky, aeroplanes, birds, helicopters, bugs, the sun and clouds. We lay on the ground in the garden and brought an old game back (What does that cloud shape look like) they said teddy bears, princess, dinosaurs, and all sorts. We made our own pictures of the sky, lots of sensory play with playdough and sand play, water play also they love making a mess. They really enjoyed the Lion King song – this was their song of the week!
Animals and Clothes
We spoke about animals and the noises they make, the food they eat and where they live. What was their favourite animal and why? Animals from the Zoo, the farm and the
wild.
We spoke about the clothes we wear and why we wear them to keep us warm or help us cool down. We coloured in pictures of jumpers and trousers and hung them up on a
“washing line” as an arts and crafts display
Physical education and Occupations
Our children enjoyed lots of P.E out in the garden, and games such as What Time is it Mr Wolf, chasing, and football games.
Preschool Room News
Teeth and tooth brush/ Lambs
Learning about the importance of brushing our teeth is very important indeed. We spoke about the good foods for our teeth and bad foods. During arts and crafts, we made
toothbrushes, mouth and teeth and enjoyed a brushing our teeth activity.
For our lamb and Spring theme, we spoke about lambs and we made arts and crafts with pasta, cotton balls, paint.
·Frogs and Ladybirds
It was fascinating to learn all about the Life Cycle of a frog, and we had lots of frog arts and crafts in relation to this topic. We made a Frog on a lily pad and painted them bright green.
For our Ladybirds arts and crafts, we used pomp poms to create effects, and used our handprints to make ladybirds.
On World Book Day, the children made frog and ladybird bookmarks. We also did lots of sensory and messy play. They love playdough and water play. We washed our babies in the class and spent lots of time out in the garden.
After-school Room Adventures
Some topics are after-school learned about this month included
Animals, Spring and pirates.
For our animals’ theme, we spoke about where they live, what they eat & how to protect them.
For our Spring topic, we talked about how spring is the best season to plant, so we planted some seeds to watch them grow. We observed our flowers growing process, drew and painted with flower petals and leaves.
For St Patrick’s Day, we talked about the history of St Patrick, why its celebrated and why it’s so important to Ireland.
As well as all of this, we had time to make a pirate ship, pirates & treasures too.
