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.
Best Wishes,
Sarah
Sarah Spencer
Crèche Managers
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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
We had a great month in our baby room! Our room name is called “The baby sharks”
We had some sand play and water play for our summer festival which our babies loved the feel of the textures. We also made maracas for our class to shake about and listen to the sound of them. For animal planet day we focused on sea life and created some turtles, dolphins, starfish and jellyfish by using our handprints and fingerprints and lollipop sticks. Our baby room love their comfort and they enjoyed a spa day in which the educarers gave the babies a foot, hand and back massage while they relaxed. We also made good use of the weather we have had lately and spent some quality time in the garden doing activities and getting some exercise. We enjoyed a lot of singing and dancing too!
For next month we will be planning activities on instruments that we can shake and bang, dinosaurs and going on a safari.
Wobbler Room News
We had a fun and active month in our wobbler room! Our room name is called “The little monkeys”
We had a lot of garden play in which the children could exercise and play on the bicycles. We also had water play in which we put all our toy animals into the water for a splash safari. We also put paint into poly pockets for the children to rub their hands on to mix the colours inside them and feel the textures of the paint inside. We made footprints with paint in which we added a face and hair to them of one family member. We used orange and yellow crepe paper and paper plates to make a lion mask for the children to bring home. We also got flour and poured it onto the table for the children to play with and get messy since they love messy play! For our summer festival with made yellow handprints in the shape of a sun and played with the sand too. We had a rainbow day in which the children made the very own rainbows and also we put all the paint colours onto a page for the children to put their hands onto it and mix all the colours together.
For next month we will be planning activities on instruments that we can shake and bang, dinosaurs and going on a safari.
Toddler Room News
Since the long break, our toddlers have now settled back into our room and they are really enjoying the variety of activities we have done this month. Our room name is called “the rainbow room”
We have made a farm using a cardboard box and made flowers for the farm garden and a big sun. We also made farm animal handprints for the children to bring home. We learned a lot about construction and the toddlers showed us how they fix the chairs and tables with our toy tools. We also made a big road for this too and they pretended to be cars going down the road. We have a lot of garden play and one of our toddlers found a little insect so we decided to go on an insect hunt to see what else we could find! We made arts and crafts ice creams for the summer festival and made summer hats with flowers on them to bring home. We talked about camping and we made a campfire with our art materials and role-played roasting marshmallows on the campfire. Also, during this month, we had a lot of singing and showed off our dance moves.
For next month we will be planning activities on instruments that I can shake and bang, dinosaurs and going on a safari.
Preschool Room News
Preschool 1:
We have had a very busy month in our preschool class! Our room name is called “the little Minion room”
We enjoyed learning all about science by creating some slime and bubble experiments, we also made mad scientists using our footprints. We took part in a summer festival and had water play and sand play to replicate beach fun, we also made flip flop footprints and watermelon slices and ice lollies arts and crafts. We done lots of fun yoga action classes which is their favourite activity right now. We also made good use of the weather by enjoying a lot of garden play while we play (Mr wolf, scarecrows, slide monster and relay races). The children made their very own guitars using some art materials and colouring in the guitars and learning the instruments names. We also made animals masks while learning all about the animal planet and we made love heart handprints for our mammies and daddies with a little poem underneath it, lastly we also made a giant robot in our room and we named him “ZIP”.
The most important thing is how well our children are doing with their potty training and they are doing a fantastic job of washing their hands too!
Our plans for next month consist of Rugby, Hawaiian hullabaloo, Links got talent, Disney theme, creative minds, sports games and superheroes
Preschool 2:
Our preschool class have had great fun this month! Our room name is called “the sunny room”
We enjoyed making science experiments with water and oil together, we also mix paint with water to see the colour of the water change when we mix it all up. We also made an aquarium using a cardboard box and added in lots of sea animals and learned the names of the animals too. We learned about musical instruments and made guitars and pan flute arts and crafts to bring home. The children loved singing and dancing in the room for the music week and done yoga class. For our summer festival we made ice cream art and suns with rainbows. The weather has been great, so we had a lot of garden activities (Races, soccer, catching the ball game and hide and seek)
Our plans for next month consist of Rugby, Hawaiian hullabaloo, Links got talent, Disney theme, creative minds, sports games and superheroes
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