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.
Sabrina Dunne – Crèche Manager
Activities from our Baby Room
This month we welcomed 2 new babies William and Annabelle, and we are delighted to have new friends in our Baby Room.
We celebrated Beep Beep Day by turning boxes into cars and sitting in them and driving around the room and we enjoyed this very much.
Autumn was celebrated by going outside and looking at the leaves falling from the trees. We also made flowers from there handprints to brighten up the room as the dark days came with autumn.
We enjoyed some movement and music exercises and used music to help us use all our muscles and move around the room. The children were crawling walking and pulling them selves up it was a great success.
We really enjoyed Halloween and painted some lovely decorations that we displayed outside our rom for all the parents to see. On Halloween we dressed up and had a spooky party where we danced and played games. We laughed so much.
In the Baby Room we are always working on our sensory skills and we made some lovely sensory bottles with all the colours of the rainbow to shake.
Stories from our Wonderful Wobbler Room
Our Wobbler Room decorated their room painting the different elements of the weather such as clouds, snowflakes, rays, and a sun. They loved doing arts and crafts while learning about the seasons. Wobblers love getting dirty and engaging in messy play, so painting the weather elements with their hands was a big activity for them.
As we are in Autumn, wobblers collected leaves from the garden ad they made a sensory box with pines, leaves and sticks. They were amazed with this box as they could play indoor with the outdoor nature.
Furthermore, they were showing interest in all the types of vehicles. They are really into cars, trucks, and buses. Every Friday, at garden time the bin truck shows up. They wave at it and get very excited. Our Educarers painted a road on the floor with chalks so the children could play with all the vehicle toys that they have in the room. They pretended to ride the vehicles on the road, so they were having fun while developing their adult role play. They loved the activity! Another activity that they loved was getting all the chairs in a line pretending that it was a bus while our Educarers sang “The wheels on the bus”.
Of course, October means Halloween! Wobbler Room got their room spooky to celebrate this fun event that they love. Children painted pumpkins, monsters, ghosts, vampires, and all the creepy fantastic creatures. They loved singing the son “Knock, knock, trick or treat”. Educarers and children got their costumes out for the Halloween party. There was spooky music and tons of fun.
Tales from our Toddler Room
We said good-bye to our old friends, they went upstairs to Pre-school.
Toddlers celebrated Ines birthday, and Fionn and Tiernan’s birthday as well.
Welcome to our new friends! We were doing some activities to know each other better.
Time to learn something about transports. We loved Beep-Beep Day, painting traffic lights and learning about the safe cross code.
For our Autumn season learning, we were learning about the weather, playing with autumn clothes, and dressing some dolls up.
For Halloween we were doing arts and crafts painting spiders, a monster in our door, some ghosts. And we dressed up like Cruella Deville and 101 Dalmatians!
Pre-School Room News
Pre-School 1
This month we celebrated Transport Week and Beep Beep Day we were painting traffic lights and we made a road in the garden so we could ride our bikes. We also made a big plane so we could pretend we were going on our holidays.
We had a pet day, and we painted our favourite animals we read books about animals, and we talked in our groups about what animal we had at home and in our granny and grandads we celebrated world food day we talked about food from our home countries what our favourite foods were and if we had a food that reminded us of a great time in our lives. We ended the month with Halloween we dressed in spooky costumes, and we had fun and games we done lots of arts and crafts and decorated our room so spooky.
Pre-School 2
This month in pre-school 2 we have been very busy. For the first week we talked about transport they were interested in knowing how we move about in the town such as on a train, bus or luas. We made a mural dividing transport into different areas likeair/water and road and then we painted them. We also made an airplane and a car sticking different papers and shapes together. We painted our cars on some big paper and celebrated beep beep day with lots of songs and games around road safety in the classroom and we even brought the fun out to the garden.
We celebrated autumn season we talked about the different changes happening during this season we made beautiful landscapes using leaf shapes with autumn colours. We brought some leaves and acorns that we collected with our families in for our nature box. We also learned some new songs and poems about autumn.
We spent two weeks preparing for Halloween we found this so interesting. We have been working on so many arts and crafts and told stories about our favourite Halloween costumes. We talked about the way we celebrate Halloween we talked about our costumes, and we baked cookies together. We sang songs and played games such as who took the candy. We played with a flashlight with Halloween shapes, and we read a book that Paula brought in. We decorated our room and filled our scrap book with art such as spiders, bats, ghosts & pumpkins. We had so much fun this month!
