Welcome to the October edition of our newsletter from Links Childcare Drumcondra.
We hope you enjoy our newsletter and we look forward to lots more fun learning next month.
Claire
Claire McCann—Crèche Manager
Baby Room News
October was packed full of exciting and fun events, and our babies loved them all, especially our sensory themed play.
Our babies did lots of body painting this month. They used their hands and feet to explore new forms of art and although it was messy, it was a great way for them to express their creativity.
Our children loved making autumn leaves through art too and painted some acorns and squirrel pictures. We had lots of Halloween crafts. We loved making spiders and ghost feet. They explored with autumn leaves and tasted different fruits that are in season.
Wobbler Room News
For Transport Week, our wobblers made road signs for their classrooms, and had traffic games outside. We also explored different transport toys and really enjoyed playing with them on our homemade street scenes.
For Autumn the children sang season songs, collected leaves from the garden and made a big Autumn tree. For instruments as a focus on the curriculum the children had dance time and used their bodies to make sounds. We played instruments and had a concert for our Educarers.
For Halloween we had a Halloween dress up party, made crafts and painted a big orange pumpkin. We also had a lovely bake sale for Temple Street.
Toddler Room News
The toddlers loved Links 15th birthday celebrations. They sang the happy birthday song and learned that everyone had a birthday.
The toddlers learned about colours – red, yellow white green and blue. They mixed these colours with paint and made multicoloured playdough. The children played with sensory materials like coconuts and lentils and enjoyed the sounds that they make.
We took part in beep beep day and learning about road safety was lots of fun. We made our own road signs and role played with our high vis jackets and toy cars.
The children learned a lot about autumn, the colours of the leaves and the cold weather. We decorated our room with autumn leaves and did lots of Halloween crafts.
Preschool Room News
Some events we enjoyed in Preschool included:
* Links Birthday Party
* Autumn
* Beep Beep Day
* Trick or Treat for Temple Street
We started this month with our Links 15th birthday party, where we got a visit from Mr Links and got to meet our brand new class bears. For Transport and Beep Beep Day, the children enjoyed discovering all the types of transport, such as trains, planes, taxis, buses. We made stop signs and traffic lights and enjoyed playing the traffic lights game. We also spent the week working on making a city from a cardboard box. It was lots of fun interviewing our local lollipop lady.
The children learned about different emotions and played emotion games in the garden.
Other activities were based around Autumn. We built on our nature box and gathered more leaves. We made a tree and each put our own handprint onto it. We used the colours we see in Autumn like yellow, brown, red and orange to decorate it.
Our Halloween party was fun, as we got to dress up and wear costumes and making decorations for our room. Their were lots of ghosts, spiders, monsters and bats flying around the place!
Afterschool Room News
During October we took part in transport week and Beep Beep Day, doing arts and crafts and puzzles to learn the different parts of a car. We learned that transport can take us to places very far away and also which modes of transport are the fastest.
During Autumn Day we were decorating the door with brown leaves that fell from the trees and painted some leaves too. We also did some leaf printing. We are also making a nature box.
Sadly, Lily, our Afterschool friend had her last month with us. We are sad to see her leave but we hope she will come back and visit us.
Finally for Halloween we will paint our faces and cook some cakes for our bake sale for temple street hospital as well as making Halloween decorations.
