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.
Alba Gutierrez
Creche Manager
Activities from our Baby & Wobbler Room
Our babies, junior and senior wobblers had a busy month of fun activities.
The enjoyed routine activities such as good morning songs, free play and spending time in the garden.
For table activities, we practised using our crayons on drawings. We played with the animal cards and painted animals with our hands.
We also made a book all about our emotions and used different colour PlayDoh to express how we feel.
For Easter activities, we played with our Easter Flashcards and painted bunnies, chicks and eggs.
For Earth Day we prepared water activities, made pots and planets with play doh, and enjoyed sensory bottles. We also used our earth flashcards to further enhance our learning and made a mural for the class.
For Picnic Day we enjoyed picnics in the garden and enjoyed fruit-shaped sensory bags. We also painted “what are you carrying in the picnic basket”.
Tales from our Toddler Room
April has been a very busy month for our Toddler Room!
This month´s long term curriculum consisted of the following topics: Easter, the moon and Fairy Tales.
Easter has been the main event this month and we have been colouring easter eggs with coloured pencils, painting some easter bunnies with paint by using our hands as well as cotton sticks. We did an easter egg hunt hiding some rabbits we made together using paper roll. We played with some brown playdoh and talked about the hot cross buns.
On the 8th of April it was Space Day, so we made the most of it and we created our own spaceship using some boxes and we painted it and added windows! We had a great time playing around the class with it. We also made some moons and earths using plates and sticking coloured paper bits. We made some spaceship hands and created alien hats which we absolutely adored.
Regarding the topic Fairy Tales we have been reading a lot of books, created castles from our hands, fairy wands, roses, crowns and a lot of role-plays has been going on.
We have also been working on our short-term curriculum topics: Jobs, Insects, Transports and Members of our family.
We talked about chefs, made some chef hats, pasta Bolognese and played loads with the food in our classroom. We learned about the doctors, made some x-rays using chalk, some doctor hats and boxes. We also learned about artists and we created a painter palette as well as some brushes. We talked about firemen and made some fire trucks with our feet and fireman with our hands and on Friday we learnt about musicians, creating some guitars and microphones.
The topic of insects was a success! We made the most of our garden, looking out for all the spiders we could see and we made loads of arts and crafts: ants, bees, butterflies, ladybirds, spiders.
Talking about transports has been a very fulfilling topic as we talked about the airplanes we see in the garden flying by, the cars our mommy’s and daddy’s have, the bikes we have. And we have been creating arts and crafts related to it. We made some cars, a stirring wheel, an airplane, a hot air balloon and a school bus.
Finally, the topic members of our family has been super fun as we have been looking at our family pictures, mentioning everyone in our family and telling stories about them.
We have integrated a routine on Mondays that includes music, dancing and singing as well as playing the instruments we have in the class. It is a very nice way of starting the week in a positive way and the kids have an amazing time!
We also played with our messy play tray which we filled up with sand and had a great time filling up bottles and hiding animals in the sand.
Pre-School Room News
Pre-school 1
Our Pre-school class learned about the planets of the solar system, a space rocket and an astronaut suit.
We have also had fun during Easter week with many crafts and games, songs and dances, we had an egg hunt. We have learned a lot about our planet, the continents and curiosities about Europe We spent a lot of time observing insects and animals related to the season we are in.
We practised our measurements and quantities for baking, and we have improved our motor skills with dances and games in the garden.
Pre-school 2
This month in preschool 2 had lots of fun learning and making new things and events, so it keept us all super busy.
At the start of the month we started off with ice-cream and Space Friday. The children got to learn how to make and ice-creams and different flavours of them. We talked about the space and we made a solar system. The children made an astronaut helmet too to be safe in space.
The following week our topic was holidays, and we talked about holidays and different countries in the world. We made some arts and crafts and painted boats and made airplanes. We had wonderful teamwork time.
For Earth Day, we talked about ways in which we can help safe the environment and made some lovely globe arts and crafts.
The children showed an interest about countries of Europe so we made a big map of Europe and talked about cultures and customs of these countries.
