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.
Preeta Teepoo
Creche Manager
Activities from our Baby Room
The baby room had a very exciting and fun time in March. We welcomed a lot of new friends to our class; Sean, Lucas, Max and Zoe.
We changed our family tree from a Winter theme to Spring theme. We started March by learning all about movements through nature. We made our whiteboard into a big book, ‘’Once upon a time, there was a baby that started walking and walking and he discovered the movement of…”. Our babies learned about the movement of the sea waves, floating leaves, the clouds moving in the sky and our own feet. We made clouds with cotton wool and did a lot of painting with our hands and feet with the help of Educarer Maria.
For International Women’s Day we made superwoman with our handprints! Then we started to learn more about ourselves. We painted coats with bubble wrap paper using the same colour as our real coats. We made our favourite animals with our footprints, and did some messy painting to express how we were feeling. Then came St Patricks Day, where we learnt all about Ireland and the colours of the flags through sensory art. We made Ireland flags with our footprints, green hats with paper plates and did some messy painting with orange to make leprechaun beards.
Then we started to explore our classroom a bit more in depth. We recreated our animals toys by painting paper plates. We painted using our blocks and toy cars, and did some role-play with toy baby dolls with Educarer Irene. For Mother’s Day we made love hearts with our handprints to give to our wonderful mamas!
We finished off March by learning all about the Ocean. We made Starfish with bubble wrap, puffer fish with forks and even sharks. Our Educarer Iris brought us to the garden where we did a lot of water play with our sea animal toys and read lots of books about sea animals. We can’t wait for more fun and excitement in April!
Stories from our Wonderful Wobbler Room
Wobbler Room 1
The Junior Wobbler room really enjoyed the month of March. We were very happy to welcome Leo to our class because we love making new friends. In March we learnt all about Spring, Shapes, Ireland colours, Our Families and The Jungle. We used paper plates to make Spring garden bugs like Bees, Ladybugs and Caterpillars. We also painted some abstract Butterflies with the help of Educarer Joaquin. We loved World Book Day and Educarer Paula read us our favourite stories.
To learn about shapes we used kitchen roll tube to stamp circles and used a yogurt tub to stamp squares. Educarer Maria made a circle and square circuit in our class for us to practice our motor skills on. We also loved wearing purple on International Women’s Day and celebrating that. We did some purple playdough and purple abstract art with Educarer Carolina too. Then we got to dress up in green for St Patricks Day! We learned all about the colour green, and looked for it on the Ireland Flag. We used our fingers to paint green clovers and made leprechauns with our handprints. We had a big St Patricks Day party in our classroom.
While learning about our families, we made a family tree with our hands and our houses with our feet. We read lots of stories to learn about different types of families. Then we made Mothers Day cards for our amazing Mums! We finished off March by learning about the Jungle. We made elephants with our hands and lions using paper plates. We did some lovely water play and gave our animals toys a splashy bath. We also enjoyed the stories read to us by Educarer Maria and her Owl puppet! We can’t wait for more fun and laughter in April!
Wobbler Room 2
The Senior Wobbler room loved all the fun throughout March. We spent March learning all about our favourite animals, spring colours, St Patricks Day and spring flowers too.
To make our favourite animals we painted pigs, lions and monkeys too. We loved giving our animal toys a bath and splashing in the water. We also made some penguins and practiced trying to waddle like a penguin and practiced other animal role play too. We enjoyed when Educarer Rocio read our favourite books to us on World Book Day. We loved learning about Spring colours by making different coloured flowers, ladybirds, and beautiful colour butterflies. We enjoyed celebrating International Women’s Day by dressing up in purple and singing songs with Helen and dancing.
When we were learning all about St Patricks Day with our Educarer Katie and we listened to Irish songs and practiced Irish dancing. We used our hands to paint green shamrocks and the Irish flag. We also made leprechauns and their pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. We loved looking at the different colours while we painted beautiful colourful flowers. We used our hands to make handprint flowers and used forks to make tulips with Educarer Beatriz. We made flowers in pots with our hands and even got to plant real flowers and practiced our pouring motor skill while watering them. Educarer Remy read us a book about the different types of flowers too. We look forward to more learning fun in April!
Tales from our Toddler Room
Here in the Toddler Room we loved all the activities in March. We learned about Shapes, Emotions, St Patricks Day and Animals. We got some new story books in our class, one being all about shapes and animals and we loved reading it with Educarer Carlos. We used lots of different shapes to create our favourite sea animals, which Educarer Noelia helped us make into a book. As we are big toddlers now, we are learning about how to express our emotions like happy, sad and angry. We made an angry bottle with red water inside for us to shake when we feel angry. We used paper plates to make happy and sad faces and sang songs about emotions like ‘If you’re happy and you know it’.
For St Patricks Day we loved doing lots of green activities. We made green clovers, did green playdough, and dressed in green too. We also made a rainbow for the little leprechaun. Then we were learning all about our favourite animals. We made monkeys, elephants, and a big giraffe. We also did animal role play pretending to be different animals and making their sounds.
Our favourite activity was doing the Bear Hunt song and Walking in the Jungle song in the garden with Educarer Luana and Luighse. We finished off March by learning all about the Garden, where we went on a hunt to find bugs and plant life in our gardens. We also did a lot of garden activities, our favourite one being Bubbles. At the end of March, we welcomed our new friend Nicholas to our class too. We love having a new friend and can’t wait to learn and play with him and are so excited for April.
Pre-School Room News
Pre-school 1
Preschool 1 had a lot of fun in March! We learned about where our teachers come from, our Irish culture, about St Patrick and about what’s in our garden! We learned about the different parts of Spain where our teachers (Fernando, Irene and Brais) come from like Basque country, Galicia and Andalucia. We made traditional wizards and witches from Galicia, Berets from Basque country and flags to celebrate Andalusia’s Day. Then we started to learn all about Irish culture while we prepared for St Patricks Day celebrations. We had a lot of celebrating this month!
We celebrated World Book Day by dressing up in amazing costumes and bringing our favourite storybooks to school with us for Educarer Fernando to read to everybody. Then we celebrated our friends Conor’s big 3rd birthday. We celebrated International Women’s Day by wearing purple and making purple ribbons. For St Patricks Day we made leprechaun masks with paper plates and used green and orange tissue paper and glue to make the Irish flag. We painted our hands green and made clovers to decorate our classroom. We made magic coins for a pot full of gold to go under our rainbow and did a sensory bag with green water where we had to find the gold coins inside with Educarer Irene. We also learned about St Patrick and how he scared away all the snakes from Ireland.
Then we were noticing the bees in the garden, so we started learning all about bugs in our gardens. We painted bumblebees, grasshoppers, snails, caterpillars, and ladybirds. We also loved reading the Hungry Caterpillar, one of our favourite stories. We also painted our hands to make a rose for our Mammys for Mothers Day and made a card too. We finished off March by learning all about the Zoo animals, like tigers and elephants with educarer Brais. We loved pretending to be these animals and making all the sounds too.
Pre-school 2
March was a very fun and exciting month in the Preschool 2 class! We learned all about gardening, superheroes, Ireland/St Parick, and about the Zoo. We loved dressing up in our costumes for World Book Day and bringing our favourite stories to preschool that Educarer Soraya read to us. We made a garden box with a little gardener man with glue and lentils where we pretended to plant and grow fruit and vegetables. We made an orchard by painting apple trees with our hands and vegetables too. We also made some snails with paper plates who we pretended were trying to eat our growing food. Then we were talking a lot about superheros because there was a new Batman movie out! We made Captain America shields with crayons and colour paper, and hulk handprints. We also coloured little superheroes and made masks to wear in the garden while we pretend to save the world with Educarer Soraya! For International Women’s Day, we celebrated by making Girl Power headbands to wear.
We celebrated our friend Sean turning 3. Then, for St Patricks week, we made Irish flags by gluing and sticking green and orange paper and used our hands to paint green clovers. Educarer Andrea talked a lot about the story of St Patrick and how he sent all the snakes away from Ireland and into the sea. Then we turned our garden box into a Zoo box and made little feeding areas for our animal toys. We painted paper plates to make lions and jellyfish. We painted our hands to make camels and glued colourful feathers to make parrots.
Pre-school 3
What a great first month in our new classroom of Preschool 3! We were a little nervous starting in the new classroom meeting Educarer Estefania and meeting new friends, like Tasnim and Melis who we welcomed this month. We learned about Spring animals, healthy food, St Patrick and Garden sports and activities.
For the Spring topic we painted Spring birds and flowers and we coloured rainbows too. Then we were talking about healthy food, and we made the Food Pyramid on our white board with Estefania, who taught us about Healthy food and “Sometimes food” (because it’s ok to have chocolate sometimes). We looked at flashcards of food and sorted them into the piles of healthy and sometime and were talking about our favourite foods too.
Then for St Patricks week we painted Irish flags and decorated our classroom with painted green shamrocks. We also listened to some Irish music to practice our Irish dancing. We were talking a lot about the sports and activities we do outside of preschool, so we made some fun new games and activities to do here in the garden. We did sport circuits in the garden and made a ring toss game with paper plates and a mini basketball game with pompoms and a plastic cup! Our favourite game was the target practice game we did on our classroom white board where we got different points if we hit the different difficulty targets. We also loved doing bubbles in the garden with Estefania too.
We can’t wait to learn more new things and have lots more fun next month in April!
Naíscoil
Here in Naiscoil we had so much fun in the month of March. We learnt about Disney, our Community, St Patricks day and Mother’s day celebrations. For Disney week we made lots of our favourite Disney characters.
We celebrated World Book day by dressing up as our favourite characters and bringing our favourite stories with us to school for Jenny to read. We loved making art about Cinderella and Finn the Fella as our book review. We were talking about going to cafes with our mammys and daddys so we made a Starbucks coffee shop in our classroom. We also learned about other community places and did supermarket and post office role play. We painted a big box green with Educarer Alex (Alejandro) and put our letters inside. Our favourite was pretending to be hairdressers and making all our friends hair lovely by pretending to cut and blow dry their hair.
We celebrated International Womens Day by talking about all the wonderful women in our lives and making purple playdough and purple art. Then we were talking a lot about St Patricks Day and getting so excited for the parade. We drew leprechauns, rainbows and painted Irish flags too. Jenny also taught us how do Irish dancing and we had a big Ceili party with dancing and Irish music. Then we started to prepare for Mothers Day and made our wonderful mammys lots of pictures and artwork. We made a poem and painted our hands to make love bugs.
We finished off March by learning all about the Solar system! We made all the planets and learnt about which one we live on, which is planet Earth! We hope to have an out of this world time next month in April too!
After-School Room News
After-school children got new toys and equipment in our classroom, which was very exciting! We started off March by learning all about Spring.
We made rainbows and coloured spring pictures of our gardens. We also did some waterplay and did bubbles in the garden. Then for International Women’s Day, we did a lot of superhero art. The women in our lives are super! We did purple playdough, painted our hands purple and made love hearts with our hands too. We even got our faces painted with Educarer Alex (Alejandro) to have superhero masks with purple paint, and we pretended to be heroes and ninjas! Then we learnt all about St Patricks Day, where were decorated our classroom with Irish flags and shamrocks. We also had a big disco with Estefania. Then we were talking a lot about different sports, so we learnt about them and made some games. We painted ice skates made a mini basketball game, a ring toss game with kitchen roll tube and even a target practice game on the wall Estefania made with different points for different target difficulties! We loved dancing and making up games in the garden too.
We celebrated our friend Oscar’s 5th birthday and Maya’s 7th birthdays. We look forward to learning more new things and more fun and games in April too.
