Shining Stars Childcare

We had lots of talk about storms and wind so we decided to make our very own wind pin wheels. Lots of hard work and concentration went into these..don't forget to bring yours home today and test it in the wind 🌪🌧🌩

Endless play opportunities 🙌 ✨️

This week we began exploring Artic Animals. We are so lucky that we have a parent who had taken a trip to the Artic and was kind enough to share some photographs with us and today we recreated some of the snowy mountains we saw in these pictures 📸. Having a personal link like this is a fantastic way to strengthen the relationship between home and childcare facility and make us an extension of your home and family!

Working hard painting our snowflake ❄️ decorations ❄️ 🎄

We are having fun working on our pincer grip with this fun Christmas game. We are using the pom poms to decorate the Christmas tree while using the tweezers to build the pincer grip! Learning through play! 🎄

Today we worked om our fine motor skills. This Montessori 'spooning' exercise has so many benefits such as hand eye coordination, concentration and it can even be used to help train the child's eye to move from left to right in preparation for reading.

We have been very busy lately making the most of all the leaves around us. We had some leaf printing, we used the leaves to fill in the letter 'A' and we made some beautiful leaf windows 🍂 🍁 🍂 🍁

Following guidelines issued by the National Safety Council we will be closed until 10am tomorrow.

Today we developed our fine motor skills and explored natured by using leaves to practice our cutting skills....the look of concentration and being fully immersed in an activity ✂️🍂

Happy Halloween 🎃 just a reminder we finish today at 4pm so we can all go trick or treating 🎃 👻 🧙‍♀️

Some of our Halloween fun today. Dinosaurs love playdough and we made some ghost fly! We had lots of treats and then showed off our best dance moves 🕺 💃

Just a reminder that tomorrow we have our fancy dress party. Please label all parts of your child's costume please 🙏

We have been busy 🍫🧁

Today we had fun exploring pumpkins. We were making pumpkin pies in the kitchen 😋 🎃 🎃

A small play house like this is fantastic for therapeutic play for children, it's gives them the opportunity to process and work through emotions or changes they might be experiencing. 🏠

The best mornings to play outside 🍂

Today we explored! It is important for children to understand their environment and little trips like this definitely help. 🌳 🍂 I think the trip to the playground at end was the highlight for the small people!!

We had a special trip today to our local library where we really enjoyed choosing some books to read. 📚 📖

Today we worked on our hand eye coordination with this fun game. The children really enjoyed throwing the balls and watching them stick!

This week we began a new theme of emotions.With the help of our new pal Rainbow Ray and the book the colour monster we are using colours to recognise emotions! If a child learns how to recognise, name and express emotions it is a skill they will carry through their whole life. 😀☹️😡🤒😴🤢

Taking a break from the sun with playdough play

We have had lots of talk of doctors and role playing bring the baby to the hospital with lots of sore legs so we made our own hospital and as you can see all the patients were very well cared for 🏥 👨‍⚕️👩‍⚕️🥼🚑🩺

A simple activity this morning on request!

We started our morning with sensorial play. We used some of our jumps to pop the bubbles 🫧

This week we are practicing being independent. We have some big guys who are graduating to national school and preschool. This is a major change for these guys so we are trying to be as prepared as possible to help make it go smoothly. Some of the things we can do to help is to get the children used to their new bags, lunchboxes, shoes and clothes. If they are familiar with them it really makes them feel comfortable in a new surroundings. 🎒