We love this time of the year. In February we celebrate the love and the friendship. We have 6 new starters throughout this month – Aoibhinn, Tiernan, Ailís, Alana, Maria Luisa, Eileanor, Jack and Aviana a big welcome to you and your families.
For National Inventors day Wobbler room surprised with and amazing space rocket while Preschoolers showed everyone how an space rocket can sound.
Valentine’s day brought us love and really good energy, we decorated the rooms with our love hearts, and we also made a lot of arts and crafts during the week, like the friendship bracelet that the Preschool Senior loved to do.
Traditional Irish dance and Irish music when our amazing educarer Tara, played Irish music in the activity street while we followed her footsteps of Irish dance.
The last week of the month we had two big events, the first one was “Pancake Tuesday” when our Chef Conor made a hundreds pancakes for all of us. Thank you Conor.
The second one was when Daniel (Filip’s dad) bringing his kite and let us have so much fun in the garden with it.
We also welcomed Beatriz in our team, it is really nice to have you with us.
Just a note to say that our baby rooms are nearing capacity in all of our creches for 2020 so we would like to advise any parents that might be expecting and if you require any sibling places, please enrol as soon as possible. Application forms are available from us (Creche Managers) or you can also contact Kim from our Admissions Team on kim.jones@linkschildcare.ie.
The next newsletter for Portmarnock will be the April issue. In the meantime, we hope you enjoy reading the February newsletter and check out some pictures from the month.
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Best Wishes,
Preeta
Preeta Teepoo
Acting Crèche Managers
Baby Room News
This month we said goodbye to Alex, Clara and Nadia. They are now in Wobbler room, but we welcomed Aoibhinn, Tiernan and Ailís to in the cozy baby room.
At the beginning of the month, we enjoyed messy play, we love it! We experimented with food like: WeetaBix, cooked spaghetti and dry rice. It was really weird at the beginning but then we were all cover in the stuff. We discovered new textures and shapes.
In the middle of the month, we celebrated Valentine’s Day, the 14th of February creating a mural all together. We made love hearts with handprints and a tree which their leaves were a love heart shapes.
To conclude this month, we worked on musical instruments. We created our own drum and we are playing it all the time.
Wobbler Room News
The topic for the first week was ” The jungle animals”. We have carried out different art and craft activities. The children painted a jungle and they painted their hands and made stamps out of them. The children loved learning about the different jungle animals, and they painted a lake and two crocodiles.They also painted Giraffes and learned about the colour yellow and two elephants in grey.
We loved learning our new Spanish songs too and as well as jungle animals, we learned about sea animals too.
The children printed their feet in blue paper to make the sea and painted different fishes and they have used their fingers to do it. Following this activity, the children made a star fish, where they painted two stars in yellow and orange color and they learned about our sealife creatures, such as crabs and other types of fishes.
The children danced to ”baby shark” and they did messy play with rice krispies. They also enjoy playing with sand.
They always love learning about transport, painting planes and trains. With a cardboard box we make a car that we loved to pretend that we are driving.
We also make decorate everything with love hearts for Valentine’s day. The children painted with their hands in a big heart.
Toddler Room News
February was the month of love and changes. Along these weeks we have been exploring the world that we have around us through the senses.
The first week was the Fruits week. Every day we had a different fruit to taste, touch, smell and see. Monday was the banana day, Tuesday the oranges day, Wednesday the grapes day, Thursday the lemons day and Friday the nectarines day. During the week we made different posters and sang songs related with the fruit.
The second week was the week of the LOVE. We made 2 different cards in order to give them to our families and a real rose as a proof of our love for them. Also we made a big poster to decorate the room, read a lot of books about the topic as for example “Guess how much I love you” or “I love you when”.
Between one thing and another thing we have been playing to build with different construction resources, we played pretending to be a superheroes, we loved play with play doug, we played with sand, we painted, we coloured, we increase our vocabulary with flash cards and photos and we learnt new information about animals.
Preschool Room News
Preschool 1:
We started this month learning the changes that come with spring and doing lots of fun arts and crafts. We looked at the life cycle of the butterfly and frogs and the animals of spring. We started talking about the transition some of the pre-schoolers will be making to big school. We were also learning about dinosaurs and pretending to be archaeologists.
This month we celebrated Valentine’s Day making cards for our loved ones. For the midterm break we had the pleasure of having some of our after schoolers join our class, where they treated the pre-schoolers with a story they had wrote.
Preschool 2:
Our preschool 2 class has had an exciting month of February. We were very fond of books, so our teachers brought new books from Spain into the class. Every time they opened one of them it was a magic moment when we all travelled to the world of the characters of the stories. Our favourite one has been the very hungry caterpillar. The caterpillar has taught us how important it is to eat healthy food. And it has also taught us how interesting it is the life of a warm which turns into a beautiful butterfly.
Then we linked the caterpillar story with the life of some animals and plants. We realized how important it is that we look after all the living beings. So, in order to create awareness we planted our own plants in our nature corner. Then we even made a commitment for looking after our planet: We painted the Earth and put our handprints around it as a symbol of our commitment.
In February Jack and Patrick turned 3, and Jacob 4. We made them a crown and celebrate their birthdays having a dance party.
Afterschool Room News
In February we didn’t just work hard on the homework but we also had lots of fun. We did lots of paintings, collages and colouring. We have used different skills over different arts and crafts. Our after-schoolers had the free choice to do things they like and to improve in the areas that they are interested in. We have spoken about St. Valentine’s Day. Where is coming from and what exactly we celebrate. The children had an opportunity to make their own Valentine’s Day cards.
We also had lots of outdoor time, playing in the garden. There the children get involved of different sport activities like football, basketball, “Simon says”, “Statues” and lots of other games.
We also include activities as a Story time. Children are most welcome to bring their own book and read it or to enjoy the books provided in the crèche. We have a puppet theatre where we bring our stories to life and children take a part of it. We discuss the stories and learn about the positives they bring to us. Our afternoons are busy and we never get bored.
This month was the midterm break and some of after schoolers were joining us from the morning and having lots of fun and activities with our preschoolers. They were sharing their experience to the small ones and telling them more about the big school and the rules there.
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