Halloween is such a fun and special time of year for our little ones at Little Stars on the Lane. We get to really use our imagination and have so much fun. We always include development activities in our fun like working on our gross and fine motor skills, or developing creativity. It’s on days like today there is nowhere else we’d rather be.
Learning about Fire
More fun this week, we supported Sofia by celebrating Spanish day (12/10) we made spanish fans.
We started our fire extinguishers, made fire trucks and fire pictures. We spoke about fire alarms and the 3 rules 😉 what to do if our clothes catch fire (stop, drop, roll) we learnt a fireman song also. Next week we will continue with our fire safety and halloween crafts and hopefully we will have a special visitor on friday morning.
Reminder: Global garden will close on friday for our halloween break and return Mon 4th of November, We will have our halloween fancy dress party on fri 25th of October.
Feelings and Emotions
Hi all,we hope you are all good, as you can see we had so much fun last week learning all about our feelings and emotions and painting and drawing how we were feeling, we also had fun in the garden and with jigsaws and magnets, we were also learning about taking turns, photos to follow, we also helped celebrate one of our friends birthdays this week
Linda and Maggie
Hedgehogs and Leaf painting
Last week's activities, we had lots of fun finishing up our Autumn theme. We enjoyed gluing the leaves we collected, some lovely leaf painting and making some hedgehogs with playdough. The children were given the materials and one little hedgehog was made they had to make their own and the all did super. We have been reading The Little Acorn book so we made acorns with our hand prints.We also started some scissor exercise with some to assess their hand/finger position, concentration and control, we will continue to work on this regularly. Lots of garden play enjoyed also this week. 😊
Next week we will start our fire safety theme and Halloween.
Autumn at Global Garden
We had great fun last week with more Autumn themes, making shapes playing with play dough and starting our leaf collection
More Autumn Theme Play
Hi all, we had a big week of birthdays, we celebrated Darragh, Finn, Noah and Fionn 🥳 we continued the Autumn theme with Apple handprints, Autumn play dough and an Autumn sensory table. We hope you all have a lovely weekend 😊
Bhí seachtain gnóthach againn le laethanta breithe. Cheiliúramar le Darragh, Finn, Noah agus Fionn. 🥳 Leanamar orainn le Téama an Fhómhair le taos, bord céadfadh agus ealaín láimhe. Tá súil againn go mbeidh deireadh seachtaine Iontach agaibh uilig. 😊
Emotions
Dear families, last week has been full of emotions. We have been learning about the different ways we can feel. We started the week by reading about the colour monsters and colouring in how we were feeling at the time. 💛We also played with playdough, creating different faces and imitating them by looking in the mirror!🪞 On the other hand, we created a sensory table with coloured couscous, imitating the coloured monsters, we talked about each of them and got down to work experimenting with this texture. 🍚The next day we explored the light table, creating faces, and then played with flour and light, it was great fun! This week we talked a lot about emotions, how we feel at any given moment, how my classmates might feel at any given moment and ways to deal with them. On the other hand, we made the most of the sunshine by playing in the garden, but we also took advantage of the rain, with a circuit in the garden with a roof. Thanks to our classmates we were also able to make shadows on the wall with a torch. We played with playdough, did puzzles, played with cars, magnets and role play. We look forward to seeing you next week to have more fun together! ❤️
Autumn Theme
Hi all this week we started our Autumn theme. We have a lovely nature box started, thank you to all the children who brought items in 🍁. We painted Autumn trees and made leaf rubbings. We made autumn spiral decorations and worked on our motor skills with scissor work. We have lots more Autumn activities planned for next week 🍂 😊
All About Me
This week in Little Stars on the Lane Seagreen, we continued exploring the theme "All About Me." We read The Colour Monster by Anna Llenas, a beautiful story about understanding emotions. The children engaged in discussions and activities about the book, sharing their thoughts on feelings and how to express them. As part of our activities, the children created wonderful drawings of their families and worked on a family tree project, learning more about their own unique family structures. It was a week full of creativity and emotional growth.
Birthdays, Families and Fun
We had a fun filled week at Little Stars on the lane Theatre Lane. We started this week celebrating the birthday of one of our friends. We created the birthday crown, made rice crispy treats and danced a lot! 🕺The next day we started to get to know our families🏠, we were talking about our siblings, parents, pets, grandparents and much more! We made our own houses with our finger prints and, using our hands, we drew the members of our families, and some pets. We also recreated our relatives with play dough. Finally we helped the colourful bears to find their homes!🧸 They are all safe and sound! Then we enjoyed playing with the rice, moving it from one place to another, burying cars and much more, we have lots of imagination! ✨
This week we have loved talking about our own family, but also getting to know all the families in our group.
Water Play Olympics
So much fun with our water play olympics at Little Stars on the Lane. Our children loved learning about pouring, volume, measuring, taking turns and working together - all whilst enjoying every moment. Making great memories this week.
So much fun this week
Learning all about food, sets, matching, collaboration, fractions and all the time having so much fun in Little Stars on the Lane 🍕🍏☺️½
Last week for some of our little ones
A very emotional week last week as we said goodbye to some of our little ones who will move on to school. We will miss them so much but we’re delighted to see each of them grow into the strong, independent personalities they have become. ❤️❤️❤️
Global Garden Graduation
Massive well done to these guys today, heading off to BIG school, it has been an absolute pleasure helping you prepare for this next chapter.
Not forgetting our little ones we look forward to working with you all again next year. You all did amazing today and we are all so so proud of each and everyone of you 🥰❤❤ have a fantastic weekend. See you all next week for our end of year party. 🥳
Reminder Global Gardens last day is weds 26th of June.
From All the GG team 👏👩🎓🧑🎓🥳
Sea Creatures
We had so much fun learning about sea creatures this week at Little Stars on the Lane. Our children extended their learning of sea creatures to sea food and then on to healthy eating. It’s so beautiful to see emergent interests flourish amongst the children.
Global Garden Post Office
This week our community helpers took us to the post office to chat about the important job the postman has to help us get our letters, we made Global Garden post cards, designed and painted our stamps and had lots of fun playing post office and posting our post cards. The postman even popped his head on to say "hello" to us whole busy delivering his letters.😀We will continue with community helpers next week.
Sensory Play at Little Stars
Our little learners had great sensory play fun last week
Laura Lynn fundraising
We had great fun with our superhero day at Little Stars raising money for Laura Lynn
Téama an fheirm ( Farm theme )
Bhí Téama an fheirm againn an seachtain seo. Rinneamar ealaín de scíoból bó, agus muc agus gnaíomhaíocht bleánú 🐄. Chraíochnaíomar an seachtain le bórd céadfach ar ár dtéama. Rud a thsitgean go mór leis na páistí. Mhínigh na páistí dúinn cén ainmhithe a chonaiceadar ag an deireadh seachtaine 🐖agus sna páirceanna. 🐑 Bain fíor sult as an deireadh seachtaine. 🌞🌞
Hi all, we had a theme farm this week. We made paper plate cows and a milking the cow activity 🐄. We finger painted muddy pigs and group painted a barn for the wall. We finished the week up with a farm sensory table that the children really loved. The children told us about all the animals they seen at the party on the weekend 🐖 and any animals they have spotted in fields 🐑 . We hope you all have a lovely weekend ☀️
Transportation Theme in Global garden
This week we completed our transportation theme, we enjoyed PE and games in the hall, painting and putting together our transportation posters. Lots of practise has begun for our end of year Graduation concert. Massive thanks to Sofia and Ava who joined us this week in Ro's absence. Next week we will be looking at community helpers. Hope you all have a fantastic weekend from all the Global Garden Team 😀🌞