We would like to welcome all the boys and girls to Early Start 2025.
We are looking forward to a year of fun and learning through play. This is where your children will start their journey through education.
Aistear means journey.
Karla and Karen
Winter Clothes
Aisters theme for the new year is a clothes shop. The children will take turns being a customer and a shop keeper. Lots of bargains......
Below is a slideshow of our busy busy shop.
Welcome Tanha
We hope you all had a lovely holiday
Happy New Year
Happy Christmas Everyone
Look at the childrens snowman pictures. They used chalk to draw the body and then stuck on the hat and other accessories.
Find the Artic Animals in the snow
SANTA CAME TO VISIT.
We introduced ourselves and sang some songs with Santa. He asked us some questions and told us we were all on the nice list.... Phew
We got our photo taken with him and each child received a gift.
Slideshow...pictures with Santa
Making bauble decorations. Finger painting.
Painting , colouring and sticking activity
Nativity
We took our roles very seriously. We learned our lines and our songs. We loved dressing up in our costumes.
We had a great performance.
Thanks to everyone who came to watch
Here are some photos of Christmas arts and crafts
Tree decorations with clay. Drying. We can paint them next
Painting christmas trees and decorating with glitter
COLOURING AND STICKING
Making candy canes... Patterns
Making Christmas Wreaths
More fun in the Grotto
Who wants to be Rudolph
Putting up our Christmas Tree.
Below is a slideshow of the fun the children have been having role playing Santa, elves and customers.
Santa Grotto
Santas Grotto is ready and waiting......
Winter clothes song....
Colour matching activity
The colour this week is PINK.
We made our pink table, played colour games online, enjoyed painting and sticking activities.
Few photos from science week. Slide show below
Science week
The children enjoyed different experiments like floating and sinking, magnets, dancing raisins, colour mixing, making rain from a cloud and many more
Slide show of Science week
This week we read the Gruffalo story, sang the song and made our own gruffalos.
Making Gruffalos
Waterplay
Few photos of waterplay
Welcome to the Doctors Surgery
The children have been very busy. Our Aistear theme is the Doctors Surgery. They take turns being the doctor, nurse, patient and receptionist.
They are having great fun role playing. We are learning the names of the doctors instruments. Even Mrs Cox the principal came for a visit. Below is a long slideshow of all the activity and fun
HAPPY HALLOWEEN
We had a lovely fun day. The children danced in the hall for the Halloween Disco.
We had a party in our classroom. Look at all of our great costumes below.
Getting the most out of our pumpkin.
Using our hammers to put golf Ts into the pumpkin. This is great for hand and eye co ordination and strengthens hand and arm muscles plus its good fun
Sponge painting ghost shapes
Spooky paper ghosts
Finishing our Frankensteins
Some of our Halloween Art work displayed
Get creative
The children used a wooden stick to etch their patterns onto a black pumpkin. We had lots of different creations.
We carved a real pumpkin and lit our candle inside. We turned off the lights and sang our spooky song. Each child helped to take out the seeds. This was a lovely activity.
Below is a slideshow
Visiting our spooky corridor. We said hi to Winnie the Witch.
Painting pumpkins
Making spells
Sticking activity
Im making a spider with my hand
Taking turns to roll a ball
Karen painted our feet green today. We are making Frankenstein.
We thought this was funny, it tickled us. Here is a slideshow
Outdoor fun
Rice trough.....Find and match the spooky pictures.
Fill, spoon and pour the rice into cauldrons
This week will be full of Halloween activities and art
Look who popped in
Here are a few photos of the last week.
Peter having a go at the water art pen
Beautiful sticker art
We are learning all about Autumn. We sing songs about leaves changing colour, hedgehogs and squirrels. We are enjoying arts and crafts.
Slideshow
Rainbow track
The children are adding lots of green things to our green table
The children enjoyed playing with the doctors bags today.
Below is a slideshow of their play.
Dr Fletcher was on call
Our colour for this week is Blue.
The morning children printed with blocks.
The children really enjoyed playing with the puppets today.
Slideshow
Story, role play and small world play.
Little Red Riding Hood.
Lets explore our imagination.
OUR COLOUR THIS WEEK IS RED.
THE CHILDREN ARE ENJOYING A STICKING ACTIVITY.
THE CHILDREN ARE ENJOYING A STICKING ACTIVITY.
Afternoon group printing red squares
Welcome Matthew to Early Start
Yellow was our colour for this week. We had a yellow table. The children enjoyed colouring and sticking activities and lots of our table top games included the colour yellow.
Taking turns
Painting Time
We have started circle time. The children sit in a bubble. We are learning a welcome song. Each child gets a turn with their name in the song. Its a great way for them to learn each others names
We have started circle time. The children sit in a bubble. We are learning a welcome song. Each child gets a turn with their name in the song. Its a great way for them to learn each others names
The children love this car track. Lots of small world fun here.
Enjoying sand play.
Lunch time
The childrens favourite time....at the moment, lunch time is quite short. We will extend this next week
Painting our handprints. The children enjoyed this.
Painting our handprints. The children enjoyed this.
Slideshow
Working together and making friends.
Kinetic sand
Look at all the fun we are having... First few days
Starting school can be a nervous time for some children. They will start with reduced hours. This gives them time to settle in and get to know one another. There will be lots of fun activities to play with.
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