As the Autumn season truly kicked in, we enjoyed lots of lovely fun learning. We loved learning about the Farm, Autumn colours and materials and
transport too. We celebrated Halloween towards the end of the month with lots of Halloween arts and crafts, games and Dress Up Days.
Our children also loved Pet Day and learning all about different world cuisines during World Food Day. During Beep Beep Day and Road Safety
Week, we did lots of games and activities to help us learn about the importance of road safety.
As always, 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 October. We
hope you enjoying browsing through them.
Preeta Teepoo – Crèche Manager
JOLITA CELEBRATES 15 YEARS INLINKS CHILDCARE
Activities from our Baby Room
In October, our babies showed a huge interest in movement and transport, and we also celebrated Beep Beep Day. We made buses and cars with our feet and handprints and enjoyed making Traffic lights using pompoms and used our toy cars to make tracks.
Then our Educarers Teresa, Estefania and Iris noticed we liked looking at ourselves in the mirror, so we started to learn about our body parts. We painted the colour of our hair and eyes on little self-portraits. We also made footprint love hearts where our Educarers wrote something personal about us.
For Pet Day, we made handprint doggies! We also did some sensory painting to express how we were feeling that day. Then we were very focused looking out our window, so we started to learn all about the weather. We made clouds and rainbows and sang “Rain Rain Go Away” together. We also used the sensory bottles to make rain sounds.
For Halloween we made lots of spooky art for our classroom, like bats, witches, pumpkins and little Frankenstein monsters. We also decorated our classroom door to say Trick or Treat, Smell Our Feet!
We welcomed our new Educarer Irene to our class this month, thanks for giving us all the cuddles!
Stories from our Wonderful Wobbler Room
In Junior Wobblers, we started off by learning all about Autumn as we noticed all the leaves in the garden. We made squirrels, autumn trees and turkeys. We painted mushrooms and leaves and also did sensory leaf play.
Then after an exciting Beep Beep Day, we were super interested in transport and did lots of traffic activities. We made our own Eco City where we made bikes, electric taxis and cars and a whole town!
We noticed all the rain outside so our Educarers Paula, Vero and Ines taught us all about the weather! We made rainbows, clouds, and rain art. We also did a lot of splashy water play too! We learnt some new weather songs like “Rain Rain Go Away” and Mr Sun.
With our teachers help, we decorated our classroom full of spooky artwork, like monsters and ghosts, and had so much fun dressing up together and having a spooky dance party!
Senior wobblers were busy as ever this month too! We showed a huge interest in music so our Educarers helped us to make music note art and painting instruments. We also did a lot of dancing in our classroom and in the garden, especially to Baby Shark!
Then we showed an interest in the materials we use to make our art so our Educarers taught us all about school materials. We made backpacks, rulers and crayons using arts and crafts. We also did a lot of colouring too to practice for school! We sawsome of the big Pre-schoolers dressed up in costumes which we loved, so our Educarers Aitor, Gema, Paula and Brais did a Superhero topic for us! This was a super week as we painted Captain America helmets, superhero foot/handprints, and did a lot of superhero games. We also had our own dress up fun for Halloween making lots of spooky art and having a really fun Halloween party!
We said goodbye to our Educarer and SLE Aitor. We will miss you lots and wish you luck on your next adventure.
Tales from our Toddler Room
Our toddlers had a very exciting month of October. We showed a huge interest in sensory play, music, stories and Halloween. We did lots of sensory play, like an autumn box with some leaves, sticks and compost to play and explore. We also did water play with our baby dolls and we pretended to give them a bath!
For Beep Beep Week we had a bike race in the garden! We showed an interest in music when we kept asking our teacher Carlos to play Baby Shark and other songs for us to dance to. We made our own shakers out of paper plates that we used to make lots of music with too while we sang and danced.
We also loved listening to stories, so we decided to write our own autobiographies with the help of our Educarer Fatima and Patricia. We did lots of Peppa Pig stories too, and even got a book that had a CD we could listen to, which was very exciting.
We got some dress up clothes in our classroom recently too so we’ve loved dressing up, so dressing up for Halloween was a lot of fun! We loved decorating our classroom with the pumpkins we painted, and also the witches’ cauldrons and hats and even our ghost footprints!
We welcomed our new friend Phoenix to our classroom this month. We can’t wait to learn and play together!
Pre-School & Naíscoil Room News
Preschool 1
Preschool 1 really enjoyed Beep Beep Week. We made lots of road safety art, like traffic lights to learn about how to stop and go for which colour. We also did some bike races in the garden.
Then we started to learn all about the farm where we painted lots of farm animals and with the help of our Educarers Katie, Fernando and Rocio we made a big farm out of Lego to play with.
We also did some messy play with water and compost to make mud for our animal toys to play in. Then we were talking a lot about our Halloween costumes so we started to learn all about Autumn and Halloween! We made monsters, vampires, witches, and pumpkins. We were super excited about showing off our costumes too for the dress up day and Halloween party!
Preschool 2
Preschool 2 really enjoyed October! We loved wearing our arm bands for Beep Beep Day while we went on our bikes in the garden!
We loved learning all about the farm, like painted animals and using lentils to glue animal shapes. We also learnt how to milk a cow as our Educarers Soraya and Andrea helped us to make a big cow and a rubber glove with water as the udders.
Then we were super interested in Princesses and Dragons so we started to learn all about those. We made castles together, and a big fire breathing dragon with dragon eggs. We also painted prince and princess crowns and used glitter to make them sparkly.
We were loving our transport so we were learning all about cars on earth, boats on water and airplanes in the sky. We made these out of pieces of apples.
For Halloween we were super excited to dress up for the Halloween party and loved creating all the spooky art work for our classroom. We even painted some rocks that we put outside the creche as Rock Monsters! Watch out they don’t get you when you come to the front door!
Preschool 1 welcomed Ayaan and Preschool 2 welcomed Abigail to our classes this month. We’ve had a lot of fun already and can’t wait to have more together!
Naíscoil
The Naíscoil Room were an-ghnóthach (very busy) this month!
We started off by learning about Autumn – Fómhar – and hibernation to start off October. We had fun making hedgehogs, autumn wreaths and learning all about the autumn colours and leaves. We really enjoyed learning about what animals hibernate in the autumn/winter too.
We made some bears and owls for our classroom to represent the hibernating animals. We have been busy with our families’ collecting things for our classroom nature table too, together we brought in lots of leaves, sticks, acorns and conkers. We also got a pumpkin for the table as we started to learn about Halloween too. We loved getting to decorate our classroom full of spooky Halloween things like spiders, witches and black cats.
Dress up Day was so much fun too! We love our arts and crafts but our favourite thing every week is our Friday Disco where we get to dance with Jenny, Alex and Reme!
After-School Adventures
After-schoolers had a lovely month in October.
After we get back from school we like chilling out and doing our own thing playing in our classroom. But Soraya taught us a lot this month. We were learning about places like the Farm, Italy and making lots of Halloween decorations. We made some spooky decorations for our classroom that we got to hang up.
For Pet Day, we came up with our own creation of a pet by mixing together our ideas like a cat, spider, unicorn and fox all together which Soraya drew for us!
We also loved learning about Italy, we painted our own pizzas on paper plates, glued and stuck coloured paper to make the Italian flag and did some Italy themed colouring. We love doing fun activities like this, but we mostly love using our imagination and playing fun games together.
We loved coming in with our Halloween costumes and showing them off, but really love getting a break from school and homework!
