Celebrating St. Patrick’s Day in Crawford
20 Mar, 2017
Adventure Room Some of the children knew last week that Friday was St. Patricks day and they really enjoyed the arts and crafts. We provided a big piece of paper, glue, blue and yellow paint, glitter, shamrocks and cotton. Some children sticked on shamrocks while others stamped their fingers and hands on it. Other used the cotton to spread our the green glitter. We created a nice St. Patricks day mural which we put up on the wall. Some parents were delighted to hear their children were involved in the mural. Discover Room During circle time last week St. Patricks’ day came up in conversation…
Last Thursday in the Exploring room the children got to make their own playdough. All the ingredients were laid on out the table for our enthusiastic team. We guided the children on how to progress by allowing them to put in the flour, salt and cinnamon into the bowl. They then added some oil and enjoyed stirring the ingredients before adding some water. They learnt how to stir with the spoon and knead the play dough. Elsie’s Dad thought it was great she was making playdough. In the Adventure room we observed the need of the children to paint on other surfaces and with other…
Adventure Room Lots of fun painting this week as the children were very interested in getting brushes, paint and paper plates. Very quickly they started to put the brushes aside and found their hands/fingers much better at the job! Elena gave them some paper so they could stamp their handprints. Parents were very excited to see the handprints on paper. Exploring Room Kieran was pointing up to the treasure basket on the window ledge so we had to bring it down for him. After placing it on the floor for Kieran other children quickly came over to explore and investigate the contents of the basket.…
Exploring Room Our babies have discovered the sand box! A few weeks ago we placed it on a shelf in the library with a lid on. It didn’t take long to be explored, when one afternoon Caoimhe was playing with her sister Roisin and she came across the box. She pulled it off the lower shelf onto the floor. As the lid was on it she tried to figure out want was inside, carefully investigating the box. A few moments later she managed to get the lid off and was so excited to see all the sand inside. Upon hearing her excited squeals Roisin and…
Adventure Room Christmas talk is starting already! When some of the children came in this week they were talking about the Christmas lights being turned on in Cork and seeing Santa. Some of the kids wanted to paint so we asked them what colours and red or green where the chosen ones. Conor wanted to paint a Christmas tree on cardboard. Emma wanted green card like a Christmas tree and Leon chose red for Santa. Conor’s Mum commented how nice the painted cardboard was and told us how Conor was all talk about the Christmas Tree with the star and what he told Santa he…
Exploring Room This week we decided it was time for a change and moved our Cosy Corner in order to make it more accessible to all the babies. The bookshelves were moved in order to create a more welcoming and comfy area for all our new arrivals. Some of the children noticed the change immediately and were excited to have a new area to explore and unwind in. As we have many new books we are spending more time storytelling and saying nursery rhymes with the children in the Cosy Corner, which we hope will continue to be an area that is calm, relaxing and…
September brings the start of a new school year. Many of our graduates from the Discovery Room will be starting “big school” over the next few weeks. This is a time of mixed emotions for all involved, children, parents, siblings and teachers. For some children it will be an exciting time meeting their new teacher and making friends. For other children it may be anxious time heading into the unfamiliar. In order to help to make this transition as smooth as possible here are a few helpful tips; • Ensure you child is independent with managing their snacks, being able to open and close their…
At last we have started to experience some warmer weather which means that sometimes we haven’t even needed our coats? Here at Crawford Childcare we have been encouraging and teaching the children how to put on their own sun cream with the help and supervision of the adults. This has been an exciting new task for the children as they are quite proud of their growing independence. In the adventure room many of the children have also been practicing their roly poly tumbles. Amelie has mastered doing her tumbles, while many of the others still need a little bit of help. With help from Amanda…
There was lots of excitement last week as all the children who attend our Discovery Room went on their school tour. For some it was their first ever bus trip although we also had some more experienced bus riders who explained to us about double and single deckers! We set off in a 53 seater single decker. Before the off the children met in our outdoor play area to run off a bit of the building excitement and to slip on their wellies. We took a quick photo of our super helper mums and we headed out to the bus in a trio of two…
Last Saturday morning Sarah, Cathy and Karen headed off to Athlone to represent Crawford Childcare in accepting our Healthy Ireland Smart Start Award. This was part of the process which commenced last year where the programme was delivered over 21 hours for 7 weeks. The programme consisted of 6 units ; Health Promotion, Emotional Well Being/Literacy, Physical Activity, Nutrition, Oral Health and Health and Safety for children aged three to five. On Saturday Crawford Childcare were among 190 centres across Ireland to receive this award. Cork was very well represented on the day as it was the County with the most representatives present. We also…
