Latest from Ardenza
27 Sep, 2016
Hello everyone! This is what your littles ones are up to this week in Ardenza! In the baby room Suzanne and Laura are continuing on with senses and this week focusing on hearing. In circle time the girls will use musical instruments and toys to test out babies hearing and introduce them to lots of different sounds. They will give the babies little challenges where one of the girls will go to the other side of the room and make a sound and see if babies will follow it. |The girls will put on different types of sounds and music like dancing music and move…
Hello everyone here is what your little ones are up to this week in Ardenza! In the baby room Suzanne and Laura are starting to do senses with the baby as sensory play is a very important activity in the baby room so this week they are starting with taste. In circle time the girls will look through pictures of foods and make hmm noises and name out the food. For snack times and dinner times the girls will give baby encouragement and praise for eating and use words like yummy and all gone. If parents would like their babies to try new foods send…
Hello everybody I hope everybody has settled back into the routine of school and preschool again! Here is what we are up to in Ardenza this week! In the baby room it’s all about family as the girls try and help the babies with those precious first words. In circle time Suzanne will put the babies’ family photo board on the mat and let the babies see their family pictures. She will point out mammy, daddy and whoever else is in the picture and sound out the words and encourage them to copy. She will continue to sound them out throughout the daily activities to…
Hello everybody! Can’t believe it’s back to school and ECCE time again! It’s so exciting that your little ones are beginning a new chapter in their lives! Lots of new activities and toys to learn from! Here is what we are up to this week! In the baby room Suzanne and Kathlyn are doing block play with the babies. In circle time the girls will sit with the babies giving them the blocks and encourage them to bang, build, feel and explore the blocks. In the first year of babies life there is a certain milestone they reach where they like to put blocks into…
Hello everybody! Can’t believe the summer is over already it flew! Here is what we are up to this week in Ardenza! In the baby room Suzanne and Kathlyn are teaching the babies about parts of the body. In circle time the girls will sit with the babies and point out where their hands, legs, toes, nose, ears and eyes are and ask the older babies to point them out too. The girls will stand babies in front of the mirror and point them out there too so that they can see themselves where they are. The girls will sing the song head, shoulders, knees…
Hello everybody here is what we are up to this week in Ardenza. In the baby room Suzanne and Kathlyn are doing farm animal with the babies. in circle time the girls will show the babies farm animal flashcards making the sounds of the animal, read stories on the farm and sing songs like old macdonald had a farm. The girls will do role play acting like the animals and ask the babies about their sounds and the babies will get to try and figure out some farm animal puzzles. There will be loads of farm animal arts and crafts done too like horsey handprints…
Hello everybody here is what your little ones are up to this week in Ardenza. In the baby room Suzanne and Kathlyn are teaching the babies the nursery rhyme ‘Row row row your boat’. In circle time the girls will sing the song and show the babies the actions by holding babies hands and rocking them back and forth. For the older babies the girls will encourage them to pair up with another baby and do it with them. The song will be playing every day and the girls will do the actions whenever it comes on. The babies will also get to play with…
Hello everybody! Can’t believe its August already where has the summer gone! Here is what your little ones are up to this week in Ardenza! In the baby room Suzanne and Kathlyn are letting the babies explore paint this week as they do finger painting. The girls will put aprons on the babies, put a big A2 size piece of paper on the mat, squirt paint on it(naming out the colours as they do) and let the babies explore the paint using their hands. The girls will help the smaller babies by dipping their hands in for them and printing it onto the paper. Throughout…
Hello everybody, the holidays are flying by but lots to do in Ardenza! here is what we are up to this week! In the baby room Suzanne and Kathlyn are teaching the babies about zoo animals. In circle time the girls will sit with the babies and look through zoo story books and pictures pointing out the animal and making the sounds. The babies will get to look at animal flashcards and the girls will do role play acting like the animals. Some of the babies already know the sounds some animals make so hopefully they will make the sounds too and the younger babies…
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