What a fun few months we have had.
We kick started the new year of 2022 with our New Years Resolutions and enjoyed exploring our 5 senses, the human body and the human skeleton, as well as the circus. Our children also loved National Puzzle Day and creating some very cool inventions during Inventors Day. In February, we celebrated Chinese New Year, St Valentines Day and enjoyed Balance Day and had so much fun for Carnival Day.
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In this newsletter, we have shared some insight into the activities from each of our rooms that has taken place during the month of January and February. We hope you enjoy browsing through them.
Preeta Teepoo – Crèche Manager
Activities from our Baby Room
The Baby Room had so much fun during January and February! We started off by learning all about Spring andf lowers. We love looking out our classroom windows and seeing all the leaves growing and the new spring flowers. Our Educarers Iris and Teresa brought in some flowers for us to do some sensory play with. It was lovely getting to smell, touch and feel all the different flowers. We also painted some paper plates yellow to create bumblebees as we wouldn’t have all the lovely flowers without them! We loved doing some handprint painting to create our own flowers, which our Educarer Maria put real flower stems onto.
We had a lovely St Valentines Day giving our Educarers lots of hugs and kisses and making art for our families who we love so much! Then we showed how much we love playing with the blocks and towers and our kitchen play area, so we started learning all about fruits and shapes. We made apples and grapes by doing some fun messy painting.
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used our handprints to make strawberries. We even got to do some squishy sensory play with banana, which was fun and yummy! We finished off by celebrating Carnival Day and sensory play. We made some Carnival masks and did some sensory feather play! We also made clown handprints and did some messy sensory play with pasta. We really enjoyed when our Educarer Iris held us up to paint our classroom whiteboard. This was so much fun to decorate it all by ourselves.
The Baby Room welcomed our new friend Miles to our class. Miles has nothing but smiles for his teachers!
We also said goodbye to our little Baby Room graduates Danny and Luke who moved up to the Junior Wobbler Room! We will miss them but can’t wait to join them soon when we are bigger.
We have started learning greeting words, like Hello, Hi and Hiya, which we use a lot while making our important phone calls we made in class to our Mamas and Dadas!
Also, our friend Sasha started walking recently which was very exciting and a huge milestone!
Stories from our Wonderful Wobbler Room
Our Junior Wobblers started off by learning all about colours. We made red love hearts, yellow sunflowers and green apples.
We enjoyed making our Chinese New Year art! Then we started our Love Week, where we made our families Valentines cards.
We made little fishy kissing with our handprints, and a big love canvas for our class. We really enjoyed storytelling with our new Owl puppet that our Educarer Maria uses. Then we started learning all about flowers and plants. We made Tulips using forks and trying to stamp them which was tricky but fun. We also made some handprint flowers with the help or our Educarer Paula. We made a big tree with every ones fingerprints to show how we are all one big happy family in our class. Our Educarers Paula and Maria also brought in some real flowers for us to do some sensory play with. We loved throwing them in the air. We finished February by learning all about clothes, as lots of us are interested in taking off our shoes and socks toplay with. We designed our own t-shirts by colouring and painting. We did a very fun sock matching game where we had to find the socks our Educarers hid.
Our favourite activity was doing a sensory fabric activity, where we played with the material while listening to music and we expressed how we felt. It was so much fun throwing the material up in the air and dancing around with it. We also loved dressing up for Carnival Day and making some fun masks too.
Wobbler 1 was sad to say goodbye to our friends Sadhbh and Luca who moved up to Wobbler 2. But we got two new friends Danny and Luke who moved in from the Baby Room next door! We can’t wait for all the fun ahead of us!
The Senior Wobbler Room were very busy learning new words and skills. We started learning all about Spring, where we were learning all about the flowers and weather changes. We painted some beautiful flowers with our hands because we love messy painting. We also painted some paper plate suns too with our Educarers Remy and Rocio. We used cotton wool to create some cloud art, because Spring showers bring the summer flowers! We have started to notice and recognise that colours are different, so our Educarers started teaching us about colours too. We did some sensory painting with Ziploc bags with our Educarer Helen to explore how colours mix together. We also used pompoms and a peg to do some creative art. We loved painting our masks and art for Carnival day and dressing up too. We had so much fun dancing and playing games with Katie our Educarer. We made clown wigs by painting cotton wool and made silly glasses with plates. We are so excited to keep growing and learning more in March.
Wobbler 2 were sad to see their friends David, Sibeal and Jamie go upstairs to the big Toddler Room, but we love that they are getting so big and we can still see them in the garden sometimes.
We are super excited to welcome Luca and Sadhbh to our class from Wobbler 1. Alannah also joined our class this month, we absolutely love getting to know new friends to grow and play with.
Tales from our Toddler Room
Our Toddlers are starting to name our different body parts, so we did a topic about the body. Where we painted our hands and feet to look at how all of our hand and footprints are different and how we are all unique. We also did some finger painting and did lots of body action songs like Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes. Then after we noticed the clouds moving in the sky, and our Educarer Luana started to teach us all about the weather. We made clouds using cotton wool and painted lots of colourful clouds that rained. We also painted some big yellow suns. We talked a lot about the weather every morning too by looking out our class windows, and while in the garden.
We loved making our St Valentine’s Day cards for our families that we love so much. While learning about the weather, we took an interest in rainbows and the colours so that was our next topic. We painted lots of rainbows and talked a lot about the different colours. We loved reading The Hungry Caterpillar story, so we made some rainbow caterpillars with our Educarer Noelia by painting and gluing materials. Then after all the discussions on weather and rainbows, we started to learn all about Springtime. We love spending time in the garden, so we wanted to bring our garden inside. We collected some leaves from outside and used them to create some art by painting with the leaves which we really enjoyed. Our favourite time this month was dressing up for Carnival and having a big disco with our Educarers Carlos, Noelia and Luana. We always have so much fun dancing all together. We can’t wait for more dancing and fun in March.
We were very excited for our friend Isabelle who became a big sister this month as her mum Rachel had a baby girl! Congratulations to the whole family!
Our friends Luc, Lola, Alex and Kai were all off on their next adventure in Preschool 2 on the last day of February. We are going to miss them a lot but are so happy for them to go learn and explore somewhere new. We are excited to be joined by our new friends David, Sibeal and Jamie! Let’s have a great time together learning and growing.
Pre-School Room News
Preschool 1
It has been a fun and busy time in the Preschool 1 Room! We started off by learning all about the Olympic Winter Games. We made ice skates, bobsleighs, and little ski men that we raced down a pretend hill our Educarer Brais made for us. We also made some winner medals and the Olympic torch.
Then we noticed the weather was getting better and we were seeing a lot more of Mr Sun. So, we started learning all about the month of Spring. We enjoyed painting some birdies to hang on our Spring wall. We also painted some ladybirds and made some flowers with our handprints and bumblebees with our footprints. Then we loved playing with our toy dinosaurs so much that we started to learn all about them. We made dinosaurs by painting paper plates, and with our handprints too. We used salt, flour and water to make salt clay dinosaur bones with the help of our Educarer Fernando!
We learned that dinosaurs come from eggs, which made us wonder about other creature’s life cycles. This led us on to the lifecycle of Butterflies and Frogs. We really enjoyed learning about how they start so small and then turn into something big and beautiful. We painted some green frogs and made some beautiful butterfly handprint art. We loved getting to listen to our Educarer Irene read The Hungry Caterpillar story a lot because it’s one of our favourite stories.
We can’t wait for other stories and fun learning next month. Also, Carnival Day was super fun because we loved dressing up and having a big disco party.
Preschool 2
We had so much fun in Preschool 2 learning lots of new things. We were learning all about the lifecycle of the frog and butterfly, which was very interesting. Our Educarer Soraya helped us to make a four piece jigsaw that showed us how their lifecycle starts and finishes. We also made paper plate art which showed the four stages of the frog life cycle. Then we started to learn all about Space. Our Educarer Andrea brought in a mini moon that was also alight for us to look at. We also made our own mini solar system for our class out of a box for our Me and My World area. We enjoyed making space art too, like a moon with black and white paper and making a rocketship with our handprints.
Then we moved on to the topic of Dinosaurs. We loved this topic as we love playing with the dinosaurs in our class. We made dinosaur footprints, volcanos and painted dinosaurs with paper plates. We ended February by learning all about Spring. We made flowers with our handprints and ladybirds using paper plates. We talked a lot about Springtime during our morning meeting and the changes that will happen now that Spring is here. We also really enjoyed Carnival Day and celebrated by dressing up and making fun masks to wear!
We said goodbye to some of our friends as they moved to a brand-new classroom called Preschool 3! Good luck Althea, Abagail, Aidan, Ben, Hugh, Marco and Senan! We will miss them but they’ll be right next door, so we’ll still get to see them a lot.
We are very happy to have Alex, Kai, Lola and Luc join us from the Toddler Room. It’s a big step moving into a Pre-school Room so we hope they have a lot of fun learning with us here.
We also welcomed a new friend Cara to our class this month, we are so excited to have so many new friends in our class this month!
Naiscoil
There was a lot of fun and excitement in our Naiscoil this month! We welcomed a new friend Evanka to our class this month all the way from Links Abington! It was so exciting for us to learn that there are other Links crèches, so we made a letter to send to their Preschool Room. Jenny our teacher helped us to write a letter and send photos of our class to Evanka’s old Preschool class, and they sent a letter and some photographs back which we loved to look at.
We also started talking a lot about Spring and the weather changing. We were very interested in learning about the storm that came too. We made some Spring flowers and some rainbow art. Then we started to talk about St Valentine’s Day and made some cards and love hearts for our families who we love so much. We baked some lovely, yummy cupcakes and had a big St Valentine’s Day disco! We also talked about the importance of being kind to everyone, to our family, friends, classmates and other people too.
Then we were talking a lot about our new shoes or coats, so we decided to set up some shops in our classroom. We set up a clothes shop one day and pretended to sell clothes to each other. We also set up a shoe shop, where we all took off our shoes and walked around in our socks which was so funny! Our favourite shop to set up was the doughnut shop, where we made some playdough donuts and painted some doughnuts too that we sold with some coffee!
To celebrate minibeasts day we made bugs art, like spiders and caterpillars with our Educarers Estefania and Alejandro (Alex). To finish off February we did a lot of carnival art like masks, hats and necklaces We also played a lot of circus games like catching games and hula-hoops jumping games.
We also celebrated Carnival by dressing up and having a themed disco party! We can’t wait to have more fun learning in March!
After-School Room News
The After-schoolers had a great time in January and February. We welcomed our new friend Maya to our class, we loved getting a new friend in our group. We loved making some 3D art with Jenny, like 3D boats and abstract art too. We also made some little ski men out of tinfoil and lollipop sticks that we had races with. We made some beautiful Spring art, like big flowers with our hand and footprints.
And we loved making St Valentine’s Day art for our families with who they were for and writing why we loved them. Jenny did a lot of exercises with us too! We did a funny experiment where we tried to pick up pencils only using our toes! We also practised some yoga positions and did a little exercise circuit for a P.E class.
We really enjoyed the midterm break too and having no school! We got to celebrate Carnival too by dressing up and having a party with the Naiscoil class. We can’t wait for next month to keep having fun in the Afterschool room!
