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.
Best Wishes,
Eliane
Eliane McMahon
Crèche Manager
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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 the baby room settling back into Creche. We welcomed Donagh, Alexander and Blair to our room! We did lots of exploring with textures, painting and water play. We were also exploring our sense of smell with herbs and we even got to smell and feel fresh lavender flowers that grow outside our room! We have been learning lots of new songs and how to play instruments. Noelia even brought in her ukulele. We had a day to commemorate Jack Charlton when we wore green, played with a football in the garden and made Irish flags! Donagh started walking this month, well done Donagh!
We had the best day for rainbow day! We dressed in our most colourful clothes, we sang the rainbow song and painted rainbows for our mummies and daddies.
Wobbler Room News
Welcome back Neil, Matthew and Lilimae and welcome to our wobbler room Cillian, Ada, Ailbhe, Emma, Ella, India and Jamie. Everyone is settling really well.
Wobblers are so happy to play together again, we were so busy this month we had loads of activities and so much learning.
We played with leaves and branches as we were learning about trees and we made our Family Tree with our own family pictures. We love to see our family on our creche wall!
Our favourite games this month were playing hide and seek, and playing catch the balls. We sang and danced to a lot of songs, our favourite was head shoulders knees and toes. We love the actions. Also fly like a butterfly song was great. We had a yoga class and loads of stretching exercises.
We made hand print mini beasts and animal planet with different colours – we are super artists! We made such a mess but we enjoyed some great sensory experiences.
We were learning about summer and we painted a yellow sun and made under the sea using paper collages to celebrate the summer festival. We love water play and we made the most of it because its summer!!!
We dressed up in our most colourful clothes and put our handprint rainbow to celebrate the end of July great day!!!
We loved July and can’t way for August!!!
Toddler Room News
This month we welcomed Noah and Elias, who have settled very well. We will say goodbye to some of our toddlers as they graduate into the Pre-school room.
This month all of us were involved in creating our Family Tree, thanks to the families who were able to help us with the pictures. We made our own family portrait too.
We have been learning loads of new songs for our classroom routines our favorite is wash hands and one little finger.
We have been loving the weather and were lucky to enjoy the sun in the garden. This month we celebrated Irish football, so we were wearing green clothes and playing football it was our favorite event.
We enjoyed painting our friendly monster using different colors and some eye stickers too. We began talking and reading about animals, we learnt about the sounds they make and we did loads of exercises with animal actions. We were exhausted after, but it was so much fun!
We were learning about under the sea! We spoke about sea creatures, we painted ice-cream, the beach and made loads of fish. Our favourite is baby shark!!! We even had a paddling pool to play in and we loved it!!!who needs water in the pool when we have a great imagination!!!
We learned about rainbow colours for rainbow day and really enjoyed the day as we celebrated the last week of July. We all dressed so colourful and there was a great atmosphere.
Preschool Room News
The Preschoolers have had an action packed fun filled month since our return on the 29th June.
We are delighted to welcome back Finn, Ethan, Isla, Alya, Daniel, Fionn and Ted.
Our graduates from the Toddler room include Bobbie, Neala Belle, David, Grace and Matthew. An especially warm welcome to our new children Alice, Samuel and Vasco who join us for the first time. We are all very excited to learn and play together.
Since our return we have been very busy sharing our “Stay Home, Stay Safe” stories. It was wonderful to hear about all the eating, baking and garden play going on at home during this time. We shared our staycation plans for our summer and explored the idea of camping. We talked about our pets both real and imaginary including our aspirations for a pet of our own one day. We constructed our own fortress in the garden with its own outdoor kitchen followed by a balance beam with our giant blocks. We carried out a volcano experiment. The children were very impressed when the volcano erupted and painted pictures of their own volcano.
Some of our summer camp activities included animal planet where we made colourful animal masks. During musical fun week we made pasta tamborines and shakes, we marched and danced around our garden singing our favourite tunes.
For the summer festival we made a chalk pet inspired obstacle course, we made boats from boxes which we filled with exotic fish and swam in our paddling pool of balls!
Rainbow day was a very colourful affair where we captured a rainbow into the preschool room and learned how light is made of many colours and then made our own rainbows to bring home to our families. We also had a rainbow disco which was so much fun!
We celebrated the life of Jack Charlton by all wearing green and engaged in some super soccer goal shots.
We have really been enjoying our outdoor environment. We turned cardboard boxes into boats and strengthened our gross motor skills on our chalk obstacle course before the rain washed it away. and much much more including dancing, singing and storytime.
We can’t wait to see what August has in store for the preschoolers.
