Welcome to the November edition of our newsletter from Links Childcare St Olaves.
November has been a busy month in all our rooms, as we prepare for our Christmas concert and our festive winter celebrations. We have been concentrating very hard on learning all the lines to our Christmas songs and we cannot wait to give you all a festive performance to remember. We hope you like our Christmas decorations! Our children and our afterschool children worked very hard to help us decorate it.
We had a month of learning all about the winter season and the changing of the weather. Our Educarers taught us all about winter hibernation and the different types of animals who hibernate in the winter in order to keep themselves and their little ones safe during the cold months.
Our STEM learning was a great way for our children to learn about this important topic. It opened up conversations about counting, coding, science and more.
And thank you to all our parents who voted in the Links Childcare Employee of the Year for 2019. Your voice and your vote matters. Thank you for your time in doing this and the winners for Links St Olaves will be announced very shortly in the coming days.
Last but not least, we would like to send you all a massive THANK YOU for all your gorgeous shoe boxes for the Team Hope Shoe Box Appeal. Collectively you helped Links Childcare collect almost 300 shoe boxes. These will all be going to a great home this Christmas and will make a child very happy.
We hope you enjoy our newsletter and we look forward to lots more fun & festive learning next month.
Kind regards,
Sarah
Sarah Bell —Crèche Manager
Baby Room News
In preparation for the festive season, our babies did lots of Christmas themed paintings to decorate the rooms. They also loved playing with water, feathers and bubbles. The particularly loved the feeling of the bubbles when they landed on their hands and toes. We made Christmas decorations for our rooms too and they are hanging up now, all lovely and festive.
We have some fast little crawlers in our Baby Room, and we have been enjoying our activity obstacle courses on our soft play mats.
Wobbler Room News
We loved dressing up for pirate and princess day and made some lovely pirate hats to wear. We had lots of construction play on STEM day and made a castle with big lego blocks. We had lots of fun during sensory day playing with sand, water, playdoh and paint. We also made some indoor obstacle courses with the soft mats for the rainy days. We also had a relaxation activity and listened to all the classical music.
Toddler Room News
We made winter art like snow with cotton wool and a big winter tree with tissue paper. We also made snow to play with during our sensory play. We dressed up for pirate and princess day and did lots of dancing and singing.
Our toddlers love reading time, and its lovely to snuggle up in our reading nooks and enjoy looking at our favourite picture books and stories with our Educarers.
Preschool Room News
Some events we enjoyed in Preschool included:
National STEM day
Hibernation Day
Welcoming Winter
Thanksgiving
For STEM day we made lots of science experiments and discovered what happens when you mix vinegar and bicarbonate soda and also what happens when you mix different liquids with oil.
For Sensory day we had fun with shredded paper and made it look like snow. We dressed up like pirates for pirate and princess day and had fun with face paint.
We also celebrated Thanksgiving day and learned how important it is to say thank you.
In Pre school 2, we learned a lot of new things. We talked about dental hygiene and painted what a healthy mouth looks like.
We also talked about Winter and made a lovely display for our classroom door with snowflakes and cotton buds. Our discussions around people who help us was interesting and everyone drew a picture of the people they think helps them a lot.
We also talked about what we think are Winter animals and made puzzles with our favourite animals.
For STEM day we did some science experiments, sensory day we explored new textures and smells, we had a competition for best costume on princess and pirates day and made some thanksgiving arts and crafts for thanksgiving day.
Afterschool Room News
We talked about dental hygiene, made snowflakes, role played firefighters and police and created Thanksgiving day art. We also liked building tents and learning more dances with Kim.
