What a fun month we have had.
In this newsletter, we have shared some insight into the activities from each of our rooms thathas taken place during the month of March. We hope you enjoy browsing through them.
We loved St Patrick’s Day celebrations, making cards for Mother’s Day, reading our books anddressing up for World Book Day and International Women’s Day.
Jennifer Murphy
Creche Manager
Activities from our Baby Room
This month in our baby room we were so busy doing lots of funny things. We learned about insects, St Patrick’s Day, flowers, and spring.
We love to touch everything with our hands, so we were playing with salt dough and painting beautiful butterflies. We also painted a beehive with bubble wrap. We love butterflies and bees.
To bring Irish culture closer to our babies for St Patrick’s Day we were listening to Irish songs, painting some shamrocks for a green crown and painting our hands to stamp a happy Leprechaun. It was so funny! We learned new songs about shamrocks and leprechauns.
The nice weather is here, and we are discovering the common things of this season. We did messy-play touching and smelling natural flowers and leaves and we glued them to paper. Now our room it looks so bright and colourful.
We were playing with ice cubes full of leaves. They were so cold and at the beginning it seemed that the babies didn’t like to get them on their hands, but they enjoyed discovering the flowers inside when the ice started to melt.
On sunny days we like to see books in the garden and waving to the people and the cars that pass by. We are enjoying the garden a lot and practicing our motor skills there.
We also celebrated Pancakes Tuesday, painting beautiful purple flowers for our mums for International Women’s Day, enjoyed storytelling time for World Book Day and made nice flower cards for Mother’s Day.
Stories from our Wonderful Wobbler Room
Our wobblers started the month learning about Spring. We made butterflies with our handprints and we love seeing our hands full of paint. We planted lentils and we have been watching them grow and sprout throughout the month.
Then we learned about the different countries where our families come from. We watched an amazing kangaroo video in their habitat and some photos of animals in the wild and in zoos.
After this trip around the world, we were experiencing with different textures with our hands and feet. We enjoyed messy play with cooked spaghetti and walked and jumped on bubble wrap, creating an abstract art with the paint under it.
And last but not least, we went on a safari around our garden with our homemade binoculars observing the different wild animals like elephants, lions, tigers.
What an incredible month of fun!
Tales from our Toddler Room
With the change in the weather we wanted to decorate our classroom with things Spring, so we got motivated in creating our ladybugs and butterflies that we ended up making a whole mural on the subject. You can see it when you drop us off in class in the mornings.
We began to invent new ways of developing ourselves with our body. We pretended to be superheroes, training with circuits, jumping, crawling, throwing balls and fighting villains.
We became scientists and every day we learned one or two new experiments. We enjoyed the pepper germ experiment and rubbed a balloon against our hair to raised it like a lions mane.
To finish off the month, we had Mother’s Day, Mom, did you like my gift?
We also created an oceanographic in our room and made puffer fishes and starfishes.
Pre-School Room News
Pre-school 1
Spring season is here, and we have had a month full of colour. We made a lot of art and crafts about flowers, trees. We also talked about domestic and wild animals, which ones we can keep as pets and which ones belong in the wild. Some of us have pets like cats, dogs, bunnies and fish and it was fun sharing this with our friends. We talked about different insects that we can find in the garden during this season, like our ladybugs! We did lots of arts & crafts around insects and even helped to decorate our reception with some of our craft work, it was super cool to see it!
Of course we took advantage of the nice weather that we had to enjoy lots of outdoor sports and games in our garden.
Finally we can’t forget the most important week in the month: St Patricks Day! We made leprechaun masks and we decorated our class for this special day. We celebrated by wearing our green clothes and some Irish flags and colours. We learned all about how St Patrick got rid of the snakes from Ireland!
Pre-school 2
This March Newsletter is composed of four different themes, one for each week of the month.
The first week we started with the preparations for St. Patrick’s Day, including colouring cards, a giant finger-painted shamrock, and a big treasure at the end of a beautiful rainbow. This further increased the motivation for the following week, in which we worked on the different objects and different songs typical of Ireland. We had a great few day in the run up to the big event.
The following week, taking advantage of the fun they had singing and dancing, we worked on the theme of “Music and Movement”, with which we worked on body percussion, an introduction to the pentagram and musical notes and we learnt the “PS2 dance”.
The third week, seeing that they enjoyed how the sounds changed depending on the part of the body with which the body percussion was done, we decided to continue along the same path and work on the “Human body and its Mobility”. Therefore, during that week we learned about what is inside our body with resources such as the puzzle and about what we can see, so we made a personalised book, which was made up of prints of different parts of each child’s body.
It is worth mentioning that on Thursday of this week, it was Mother’s Day celebrations, and the children were able to give their mums a bouquet of hands and feet with a personalised card with the name of each mother.
Finally, with the arrival of spring and the good weather, the children see more and more animals in their daily lives, so their interest in the zoo has grown. And it is precisely the Zoo that we worked on during the last week of March. We took advantage of the fact that the animals live in different environments to work with water, sand and air, as well as using the puppets to tell stories and make models based on them.
After-School Room News
Our After-school children are enjoying the Spring season, making some decorations for our class, like flowers and insects art and crafts, have you seen our Caterpillars that we made all by ourselves by carefully using scissors and glue. Caterpillars can turn into butterflies, isn’t that amazing?!
This change in weather is allowing us to enjoy outdoor sports; we love our basketball challenges!
We also really enjoyed St Patricks day, we made the best party ever playing our favourite songs and, of course, Irish dancing. We had to teach Jose the steps as he is not from Ireland, but he is learning fast!
Now we are looking for the Easter so it’s time to make our Easter eggs and bunnies.
We can’t wait for the next month!
