We have had such fun over the past three months, as we enjoyed the rest of the summer and the nice sunshine in July and August.
We took advantage of the nice weather outdoors and played lots of games and had fun with our friends in the fresh air.
In September, we welcomed lots of new children to our rooms and we have formed some lovely new friendships together.
Keep an eye out on our Social Media Channels for photos of our daily activities.
In this newsletter, we have shared some insight into the activities from each of our rooms that has taken place during the month of
September. We have also shared some photos with you from our July & August activities. We hope you enjoying browsing through them.
Preeta Teepoo – Crèche Manager
July Activities
August Activities
Activities from our Baby Room
In September our babies showed our Educarers Iris and Teresa that we were interested in music by listening and
wiggling during the song time!
Our Educarers helped us to make our own shakers out of paper plates. We also did a musical theatre topic, where we did
a lot about The Lion King musical! We made giraffe crowns and made lots of jungle animals using our handprints. We
had the most fun dancing to The Lion King musical songs! Oh we just can’t wait to be BIG!
We also learnt all about the media too! We made microphones, and telephones to practice using our little sounds. We
practiced saying words like; hi, bye, hiya, and who is it? It was very fun! While we were playing on our telephones, we
were saying ‘mama’ and ‘dada’ a lot, so our Educarers did a Family topic next! We painted pictures of our families doing
messy painting and also made little bottles of love art to give to our family. It was also Grandparents Day so we made
butterflies with our handprints as little gifts for our grandparents. We also loved watching the videos our very thoughtful
grandparents made for us!
Our friend Nathan was very happy when he came to creche after his swimming lesson, so we decided to learn about that
and other sports too for the last week of September. We made swimming pools with our footprints, painted different
kinds of sport balls and played lots of sport games in the garden. Our Educarers held our hands and we had pretend
races which was a lot of fun! We can’t wait to grow and learn more in October!
We welcomed our new Educarer into our classroom in September, her name is Estefania! We also welcomed lots of new
friends too! Hello to Arthur, Cillian, Sasha and Fionn! We can’t wait for us all to learn and grow together.
Stories from our Wonderful Wobbler Room
Here in Junior Wobblers in September we started by learning about shapes. We made a caterpillar with shapes. We made our
own shape pets to decorate our classroom. We also made a yummy pizza art with paper shapes. Then we learnt all about
under the sea! We painted crabs with our handprints, and we’ve also made turtles, fish and jellyfish! We’ve had lots of fun
playing with sand and seashells dancing to under the sea music with our educarers Gema and Ines too! Then we did a topic
about the country side! We painted lots of country animals, like chickens, pigs, donkeys, cows and ducks. We even learnt
about the country side food and looked at some berries growing in the bushes beside our creche and painted carrots. Our
educarers Veronica and Paula read us lots of animal stories too. To finish September in the best way, we did a Disney theme
week! We painted Lions like in the Lion King and did a snow white magic mirror. Our favourite was making the Mickey /
Minnie Mouse ears!
In Senior Wobblers, we have been having a lot of fun during September too! We were showing our interest in food so our
Educarers thought us all about the food. We did messy play with spaghetti and made bolognaise art, and also painted dry
pasta too. We loved doing the messy rice sensory play.
Then we started to learn all about sports because we were really interested in the balls in the garden. We painted lots of
different sports activities like tennis rackets, basketballs and football fields. We worked a lot on our motor skills by jumping,
running, dancing and playing ball sports in the garden with our Educarers Aitor, Paula and Brais! We were also loving our
snack time and naming all the fruits so then we started to learn all about fruit! We painted brown fruit baskets and added
different fruits that we painted to it, like oranges, strawberries and our favourite BANANA! It was our friend Ciara’s birthday,
and she was saying ‘cake’ so after a healthy fruit we, we did a Sweet Week! We painted different sweets and played with
‘cookie dough’! We even did some experiments with yeast which was lots of fun learning.
We had a big move in September between the wobbler rooms! Welcome Eanna, Evan and Emilia from the baby room up to
the junior wobblers!
Arthur, Sadhbh, Rian, Oliver, Luke and Ollie all said goodbye to Junior wobs and ran all the way down the hall to the Senior
Wobbler room where we’ve been having so much fun!
Tales from our Toddler Room
We had a big change in September with a lot of new friends coming to Toddlers! We loved playing with the toy cameras and
saying CHEESE so we decided to learn all about film and the cinema. We made our own Cinema tickets by colouring and
also did some gluing and sticking paper to make some popcorn art. We even made our own Hollywood walk of fame
handprints because we’re all superstars!
Then we showed an interest in food by pretending to cook food for our Educarers Patricia and Carlos so we decided to do a
food and fruit theme. We painted out favourite fruits all by ourselves. We did some supermarket role play and pretended
to go shopping with our shopping baskets full of food. Then we progressed this idea of shop keeper and did a topic on jobs!
We learnt all about firefighters and the doctors. Patricia drew a big picture of a doctor and we all helped to glue and stick
crepe paper to colour it in.
We also made firefighter hats to take home. We played a lot of role play too, using playdough to pretend to be chefs and
played with the doctor box. Then we found a ‘small spider’ in the garden so we decided to learn all about animals of
different sizes! We made spiders which are small and quiet, and then painted lions which are big and loud! We did a lot of
animals water play too and animal role play games in the garden. Our favourite activity was going on a Bear Hunt in the
garden! Then to follow up on our interest in whats going on in the garden we learnt all about Nature to finish September.
We noticed the leaves are falling into the garden so we decided to collect some and make a tree art! We also painted a
Rainbow with clouds and the sun. We are looking forward to exploring more in October!
We said goodbye to some of our friends who have moved to preschool but we get to say a BIG welcome to our new friends
from downstairs, Fia, Isabel, Lauren, Reyan and Isabelle!
Pre-School Room News
Preschool 1
In September, we started with the topic of Welcome to Preschool! We drew pictures of our Links Seabrook creche! We did our
own handprints too on our first day. We talked a lot about preschool with our teachers.
We’ve also been learning all about Emotions. We have been reading the Colour Monster story book and using this book to learn
all about colours too! We made our own colour monsters, and emotion lollipop puppets with happy and sad faces. We also made
bottles and jars with different colours just like in the colour monster story!
To continue with the colour Monster, we started to learn all about colours and shapes next. We did lots of matching colour and
shapes games using our classroom. We did a caterpillar with different colours also. We also used toilet roll cardboard to paint
circles!
We did a lot of cooking role play with out garden kitchen so then we did a Food and Restaurant topic! We did a lot of restaurant
role play of course, pretending to cook and serve food to our Educarers Katie and Rocio and friends. We also made menus and
did our favourite food art.
Preschool 2
Preschool 2 have had so much fun during September.
We started off by doing a Welcome to Preschool theme. We were learning what preschool is going to be like with our Educarers
Soraya and Andrea.
We did our own self-portraits and coloured what we think we look like. We also made friendship bracelets to celebrate friendship
day. We also drew pictures of our preschool creche.
Then we started to learn all about ourselves and our friends! We made books with information about ourselves and painted our
hands with our favourite colours we picked and did our handprints. We made our faces using paper plates and then also made
paper plates with our favourite foods on them too.Next was the Our Families topic and Grandparents day. We drew lots of
pictures of our families this week. We made pasta photo frames to give to our families too. We celebrated Grandparents day by
watching videos our grandparents had sent in and making flowers with our handprints to give to them as a thank you! Then we
told our teachers that the leaves are falling from the trees so we started to learn all about Autumn. We did sticking and gluing
leaves. We made pumpkin by using orange paint and paper plates. And we also did leaf stamping and tracing!
We welcomed a lot of new faces in preschool this year! We can’t wait to get to know everybody and play, learn and grow together!
Preschool 1 welcomed our new teacher Katie to our room.
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In September we’ve had a great introduction to preschool! We talked a lot with Jenny and Alex about what preschool will be
like. We also learnt all about Autumn because we brought in lots of things for our nature table, like leaves and sticks.
We learnt about the autumn colours through a colour wheel and painting our hands. We also planted our own little plants and
have been taking care of them every day. Then we spotted some construction workers working outside of the creche so we
started to learn all about construction and Architecture.
From “Legoland” to landmark buildings around the world to the three little pigs house that wouldn’t blow down…
We’ve had lots of fun!
Next we took a trip around the world! We visited Italy, London, Mexico, Japan and finished our world trip in Australia! We did
lots of arts and crafts inspired by these countries. We celebrated Grandparents days and made poems, thank you cards and
created a wall display of pictures and photographs and told wonderful stories of our gorgeous grandparents! We loved
watching the videos they made for us too, we have the best grandparents!
We were all talking about holidays and really enjoyed our art so Jenny is going to teach us all about art from around the world
to finish September. We learnt all about artists like Kandinsky, Warhol, Michelangelo and Picasso. We recreated their art using
our own style of art and textures and design. It was so much fun!
After-School Adventures
After a long day in big school, we have been coming to creche to have a lot of busy fun with Blathnaid and Grace.
We got a new kitchen play area in our after-school room which has been fun doing restaurant role play. We’ve also loved all the
puzzles and games in the classroom, especially the match the picture / I spy game.
To decorate our classroom, we made a big family tree and drew pictures of all our families to put on to it! We also made All
About Me pages where we practiced writing our name, our birthday, our favourite colour and animal and even drew a selfportrait!
We also did some animal art and painted animal masks like a fox!
We have been doing Spanish lessons with Grace too and started to learn some of the colours in Spanish. We were also learning
about origami and how to fold paper into art. We were also doing a lot of Physical Activity, like yoga, musical chairs, dancing and
doing a lot of running and bikes in the garden! We finished the month by doing some theatre themed activities, like making
puppets, character guessing and acting out stories.
