Christmas magic

Last week was full of Christmas magic, creativity, and excitement! Here’s a little recap of everything we enjoyed together:

🎅 On Monday, we explored our Christmas sensory table and played with festive playdough.

🎁 On Tuesday, Santa came to the crèche with presents! The children were delighted and full of wonder. We also enjoyed reading the Christmas stories that Santa kindly gifted!

🎨 On Wednesday, the children created their own Christmas trees using green paint and forks as brushes. They loved the different texture and the “pine tree” effect it made!

🎶 On Thursday, we sang a mix of Christmas songs for mum and dad, we even learned a song in Irish! After that, we all cooked together and made a wonderful Nutella filled Christmas tree pastry. It smelled (and tasted🤭) amazing!

🦌 On Friday, we mixed magical ingredients to make reindeer food so they can recharge their energy on Christmas Eve. The children were very excited to prepare something special for Santa’s helpers!

It’s been a joyful and festive week full of smiles and Christmas spirit. 🎄🎄🎅🎅

Maisiúcháin Nollag!

A chairde, seachtain ghnóthach ag cruthú maisiúcháin Nollag! Bhí cuairt iontach againn inniu ón nGarda freisin. Cuireadh crainn Nollag suas freisin! Bíodh deireadh seachtaine álainn agaibh go léir! 🌲🎁🎅🤶

A busy week creating Christmas decorations! We also had a great visit today from the Garda. Christmas 🌲 trees were also put up! Have a lovely weekend everyone! 🌲🎁🎅🤶

Decorating the Tree!

Decorating the Tree is the best part of any day!

Pilates with Louise

Our Pilates class in Little stars on the land is a firm favourite with our children. Our amazing Pilates teacher, Louise brings the children through a curriculum of mindfulnsss and movement. We definitely see self regulation skills developing in the children and a sense of self. And it’s so much fun!

More Halloween fun at Little Stars

More Halloween fun at Little Stars

Dress up fun!

Having the most dress up fun ever for Halloween in Little Stars

Halloween fun 👻

Hi mommy’s and daddy’s, we have had loads of Halloween fun 👻 We had halloween themed sensory play using spaghetti, water and Oobleck. We made play dough spiders🕷️ Our arts and crafts were witches faces, ghosts, bats and claws. We learned a new spooky Halloween song and have read Halloween books 📚

Next Friday (24th) we will have a Halloween costume party for the end of Ecce 🎃.

We hope you have a lovely weekend, Ciara, Sinead, Vanessa, Jesús and Rachael

A thuismitheóirí, bhí an-Spraoi again do Oíche Shamhna. Rinneamar obair céadfach le spaghetti, uisce agus Oobleck (gloop). Rinneamar damháin alla as taos 🕷️agus ealaín agus céird le cailligh, púcaí, íaltóga agus ionga. F’fhoghlaimear amhráin Oíche shamhna agus léigh muid scéalta faoí. 📚 an seachtain seo chugainn, beidh gléasadh suas againn mar beidh briseadh mean téarma ag gach páiste a thagann ar maidin. Ban fíor sult as an deireadh seachtaine.

Making Pizzas

Last week we had a great day. We enjoyed making pizzas with our little ones. We each took turns to decorate our pizza, which helped develop our fine motor skills, spark our creativity and by working together, we enjoyed progressing our social skills- all whilst having so much fun!

Music, ballet and Pilates classes

Our children have enjoyed their music, ballet and Pilates classes so much at little stars. What a fun way to spend an afternoon.

Dear families, this week we have dived under the sea to discover the animals that live underwater 🐟 We started the week by creating some special cards for our fathers, happy father's day to all!🩷 In addition, we created the “sand” for our mural, using our hands, we love to get dirty! 👐🏼We did the undersea animals with an experiment: we painted aluminum foil with markers and stamped the shape of a starfish, a dolphin and a seahorse, they were very original and we loved coloring in different textures! 🐬Finally, in our sensory activity we created foam and, together with warer and blue coloring, we played and got soaked 🤭 it was a lot of fun 💦

This week we celebrated with a big party the birthday of our friend Felix, he is now 4 years old! Happy birthday to him!🥳🎂🎁❤️❤️

This week we really enjoyed taking advantage of the sunshine but also being able to enjoy playing together in the classroom when it was raining. We have colored a lot, read books and enjoyed role playing, there are lots of "kittens" in the classroom 🐱🤭

Happy weekend 💖

From Maria and Iga

We are all getting the summer feeling this week and the children are loving being outside in the sun 🌞 We had lots of fun learning about transport and road safety. One of our little ones has started his own yoga class 🧘‍♂️ . Everybody loved joining in! We made our own version of Greystones and put in all the things we love about our town 💕

Playing in the park

We love to get out in the fresh air at Little Stars on the Lane, Its so nice to go the park and enjoy nature

Experimenting and making Carrots

We had great fun last week making carrots with forks and doing fun and interactive science experiments

Spring and Sensory Play

Busy days in Little Stars on the Lane learning about Spring and enjoying lots of sensory activities

Arts and Crafts

A very busy week in Little Stars on the lane. Our little learners had great fun making arts and crafts and sensory play

Saint Patricks Day

Hey everyone, here are some pictures from the last 2 weeks! we had world book day and pancake Tuesday last week! we made some pancakes and did a pancake day sensory table 🥞

We also learnt all about st patrick’s day and did lots of fun art, baking and sensory tables☘️

Hope you all had a lovely long weekend 💚

Learning about the body

This week we learned about our bodies at Little Stars. Our little ones loved learning everything about how our bodies breathe, digest and operate. So much fun creating our organs as art activities and then learning what each thing does!

Valentines Day

This week we had a great time celebrating Valentine's Day 💕 We started by creating hearts, which we did on the glass to see the reflection of the colours 🩵💛❤️ We also painted and glued hearts to create a Valentine's headbans. In addition, in our sensory activity we played with jelly and rice, it was great fun! 🍚 On the other hand, it has been a week full of birthdays, we have celebrated three of them!🎂🎈🥳 Congratulations to all of them, they are already 4 years old! 4⃣!!❤️❤️

Hibernation

Last week we have been learning about hibernation 🐻 We have immersed ourselves in creating caves where our animals hibernate, we also made hedgehoges with playdough and sticks.🦔 We also went on a bear hunt in the Sensory Room, it was great fun! Finally, our sensory activity where we were able to find animals that hibernate in their habitat. Last week we have learned a lot and we have played, our imagination helped us to create a tunnel with the chairs, it was super fun! 🤭

Learning about shapes

Last week, we had lots of fun learning all about the geometrical shapes such as: circle, square, rectangular, and triangle 🔺️ 😀. For arts and crafts, we had drawn shapes using the geometrical inserts from our Montessori material, painted using the wooden blocks of different shapes and colours. For our sensory play, we had a competition through which we had to match the different shaped wooden blocks to their matching drawn shapes on a big poster, and then we coloured them.

Also, of course, we enjoyed our garden time, disco dancing, games, and playing with our friends 🧡.