Celebrations of Culture & Kindness
What a busy four weeks we have had in crèche – and what fun too.
Celebrations included St Patrick’s Day, Easter, and we enjoyed themed events such as National Pet Day, caring for our pets and Gardening Day.
We are delighted to welcome back all of our children and we are having such fun 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 over the last four weeks . Susan, our Chef, based in Links Clontarf has also shared a recipe for one of our children’s all time favourite dinners, Beef Stroganoff!
Just a note to say that our Baby Rooms are very close to capacity in all of our crèches for 2021 and into 2022 so we would like to advise any parents that might be expecting and if you require any sibling places, please enrol as soon as possible. Application forms are available from us or you can also contact Kim from our Admissions Team on kim.jones@linkschildcare.ie.
Our next newsletter for you will be in four weeks time, in the middle of May, where we will share more news with you on what our children have been doing.
Take Care.
Sabrina Dunne – Crèche Manager
Activities from our Baby Room
In March our babies celebrated St Patricks day with lovely dress up the babies looked so well in all there green as well as the Educarers we made some lovely hats and celebrated
with song and dance all day.
For Gardening Day, we made our own lovely garden with paint and hand and footprints we got very messy. But that was half the fun. We made flowers and even some butterflies came and landed in our garden we used all bright colours to represent spring this made us all very interested and now every day we come over and look at all the lovely colours.
Easter celebration were so fun in our room. We made little bunnies with floppy ears and little teeth. They were baby bunnies just like us. We also had so much fun decorating our door for our Easter celebration.
We made a lovely display, and it even had some baby chicks on it. That was really fun as we got to play with them first. They were so soft and Virginia even sang us some songs,
which made us laugh so much.
For our Pet Week we made all sorts of noises like animal. We listened to our favourite son, “Old McDonald Had a Farm” and clapped our hands and danced around. This was
so much fun – our favourite sounds were the woofs and the meows.
Our babies and their Educarers also made a book “All about Me. This book contains all the things we love, the letters in our name and a lot of things that makes us individual as
babies in our rooms.
We also celebrated Jack’s 1st birthday – this is a huge milestone, and we loved celebrating with him and his baby friends.
We were sad to say goodbye to Aodhla, Oscar and Rayna, but we know they will be happy in the Wobbler Room with their new friends.
Stories from our Wonderful Wobbler Room
On St Patricks Day in the wobbler room, we sang some Irish songs and done some Irish dancing we painted our Irish flags we all dressed up in our favourite green clothes and
even our Educarers were dressed up we had such a lovely day.
For Gardening Day, we used papers and cake cups to make some lovely flowers. We painted them lots of colours and went out to the garden and looked around at all the lovely
trees and flowers in the grounds around us. We saw all the lovely flowers blooming and we even sang some songs about Spring.
Easter was very exciting! Ines, our Educarer won the big Easter raffle. She was very happy we got into the spirit of Easter by making some Easter bunny’s and chicks which we
displayed by Sabrina’s desk. She was very happy she got to see these while she worked. We also made a lovely poster
for our door out of crepe paper in all the Spring colours.
We made a little bunny for outside our room with his basket of eggs so he could come visit us whenever he wanted.
For Pet Week our Educarers spoke with us about the pets they have at home. We talked about dogs, cats, goldfish, bunny rabbits and even ponies.
We have been talking about saying hello in different languages and we are practising with the help of our Educarers.
We also said goodbye to some of our friends this month but we know there getting big and it’s time for them to move to the Toddler Room. So goodbye to Noa, Fionn, Luke, Frankie,
Linda and Ella.
We also welcomed Camille, Mia, Rayna, Oscar, Aodhla and welcome back to Alannah also.
Tales from our Toddler Room
For St Patricks Week, had a great party here in the Toddler Room. We sang and danced and had a great hooley. Fionn even sang his Molly Malone song that his dad taught him.
We all dressed up in our favourite colour green and did lots of Irish dancing.
We had a great time during Gardening Week and explored the garden, finding different flowers all around us. We love welcoming Spring – it’s very exciting to see the days get
brighter and we can spend more time in the garden. We had a great time celebrating Easter. We were so happy as our Educarer Maria Barco was a winner in the raffle – she
was smiling all day. We made a little Easter basket and collected our eggs in there. We also made a lovely poster even making it 3d by painting some past, and adding
different spring colours.
We also made some bunny rabbits and sang our Educarer Manu’s favourite song “Hop Little Bunnies” on the Thursday before Easter. We had a great party with singing and
dancing.
For Pet Day we made our favourite animals – a horse and a cow. Although they are not your average pets, it’s what we wanted and were very happy we used our handprints to
design our animals. We also talked about what kind of animals we have at home with the favourite been a turtle.
We celebrated Maria’s birthday with an amazing party, and made superhero mask for the party and our disco. We even enjoyed a small bit of birthday cake with parents’
permission of course. Maria even treated her friends to a special Spanish breakfast – they really enjoyed this.
We welcomed Alexander to our classroom – he is settling in very well.
But we did have to say goodbye to Millie, Emily, Ellen, Alice and Anna but we are super happy that they are in preschool now.
Preschool Room News
Preschool 1
World book day was a great day in Pre-school 1. We enjoyed our favourite books and Maria and Estella helped us by reading our books to us. We all got a turn it was so
interesting to have new books. We all learned so much about each other by what books we read.
We then celebrated St Patrick’s Day by making our own t-shirt. We printed different designs on each t shirt and made large shamrocks.
Maria and Estella told us a story about St Patrick when he came to Ireland and chased away all the snakes in Ireland and we were forever grateful, so we made him a saint.
We celebrated Easter by decorating our room. We made a special large Easter basket with decorations that Estella found in her garden and we made a big Happy Easter sign for
our window so everyone could see what we are doing in the classroom.
For Gardening Week, we made our very own special plant we planted lentils in cotton buds and watered them every day and let them grow. We then put them on the window so they
would get the light they needed. We went out to the garden and collected twigs and weeds.
For Pet Week we made our own pets on sticks and we made turtles, cats, dogs and bunnies. We had so much fun role playing with this and we pretended the animals came to life.
Preschool 2
In Pre-school 2, celebrated St Patricks Day and dressed up in our fanciest clothes (green of course). We enjoyed a party with the Irish flags, and lots of singing and dancing.
On our Gardening Day Natalia brought in some Spring flowers and we placed them all over the room to bring in some nice smells and the colours of Spring in our
classroom. We also used cupcake holders to create our own flowers using longs sticks and crepe paper to finish this design we are very creative in preschool 2.
Easter time was such a special occasion for us we had an Easter egg hunt that took us all over the creche we designed and created our poster for the door to decorate
our room. We also made little chickens on sticks that we used to tell our easter storey. We read books and happed around like bunnies all to celebrate the big day.
Pet Day was so fun we all talked about the pets we had at home we told our Educarers their names what kind of animal they are and what made them special to us we told funny story’s and how we would take them on walks. We even heard about a gold fish’s tank that lit up. Springtime arrived and were so excited to learn about the insects and the birds building their nests.
We are enjoying going the garden and bringing our activities outside we will soon be able to have picnics and storeys outside too.
Our children have been learning about the zoo and we discovered lots of things about monkeys and gorillas. We learned about where they live in the zoo and what fruits
they eat.
