Ongar january 2011 Newsletter

Mother Hubbards Newsletter

January 2011

Welcome to the first newsletter of 2011! We hope you had a nice Christmas and New Year!

Happy Birthday

This month we would like to wish the following children a very big Happy Birthday:

• Jack in the Toddler who was 2 
• Ciaran  in Pre Montessori who was 3 
• Leah in Toddlers who was 2 
• Darasimi in Toddlers who was 2 
• Vincent in Pre-Montessori was 3 
• Annette in Pre-Montessori who will be  ??? 
• Hayley in the Baby Room who will be 1 

Welcome

We would like to welcome Helena and Saoirse who have both joined us in the Wobbler Room. We hope you settle in well with your new friends.

Congratulations

Big congratulations to Jonathan and Aimee who have a new baby sister Sarah.

Infection Control

We would appreciate your help in trying to prevent any virus entering the crèche. I would therefore just like to stress the importance of using the hand sanitizer gel before entering any of the children’s rooms. We are advising all parents, staff and visitors to use the gel. We are also encouraging any school going children to use the gel when returning from school and entering the building.

Also for any parents entering the baby, wobbler and toddler rooms we would like to remind you to use the shoe covers provided as this will also help in the prevention and spread of any viruses.

Room Changes

Over the next few weeks some children will be moving into their big rooms. The children will begin to settle into their new rooms shortly. We will speak to each parent before their child moves so the room change runs smoothly.

Gymboree/Speech and Drama

The children will be happy to find out that Gymboree will return on Wednesday the 12^th of January. Each session runs for 8 weeks and costs €40. If you wish you can pay €5 each.

Speech and Drama in the Montessori room is coming to an end shortly. We are hoping to run another session as the children really enjoyed it. It is €60 for 10 weeks. The new term will run from Thursday 27^th January.

Cute As A Button Headbands

Samantha in our playschool room has started up her own business, selling headbands and hair accessories for children. These are handmade by Samantha and can be custom made in your favourite colours or to match a specific outfit!! Samantha is running a “January Special”, buy one get one half price so to view some pictures of these beautiful headbands, visit ‘Cute as a Button’ on facebook or to order email cuteasabuttonheadbands@hotmail.com

Ongar Village                            Phone: 01 8260055

Ongar                                      

Dublin 15                        E-Mail:  ongar@motherhubbardschildcare.ie

Flowerhill January 2011 Newsletter

           Mother Hubbards Newsletter

January 2011

Welcome to our first newsletter of 2011.

Happy New year to everyone! 

                                            

Congratulations

Firstly we would like to congratulate Sharon on the birth of her baby girl Holly born on 17^th January at 1.29a.m weighing a healthy 7lb 9oz’s. They are both doing very well.

                                              

Reminder

                             

The Montessori ECCE Sessional children will have their mid term break on 23^rd, 24^th & 25^th February. Mother Hubbards Childcare Centre will be closed for everyone on 17^th March and on 18^th March the ECCE Sessional Children will have no school.

                                              

Welcome

                            

We are very pleased to welcome Cliona Martin to our Montessori Classroom. Cliona is studying Montessori & Childcare and will be with us here at Mother Hubbards every Thursday and Friday. We hope she will enjoy her Montessori teaching practice with us.

LOOK…what’s been happening in your child’s class this Month…

                            

                          Montessori Room

This Month has been dedicated to the Solar System learning about the Planet we live on and all those other planets far far away. The children have shown a real interest in this topic and it was lovely to hear them talking about information they learnt at circle time through play or chatting with their friends. We made a special solar system colouring book which the children will bring home this week. They have also learnt a special song called ‘ The family of the Sun’. We had a culture day this week to celebrate Australia Day- 26^th January where we learnt all about Australia-where it is in the world, the Australian Flag and about all the wonderful animals that live there. Throughout this month we have also been learning the sounds h, r & m and the numbers 5, 6 & 7. Next month we have a special ‘day of love’ coming up- Valentines Day!! On Monday 14^th we are going to hold a Valentine Ball in the Montessori Classroom. We would ask the girls to come in pretty dresses and the boys to come in smart shirts and ties if possible!! We will have a little party afterwards.

                                        

                         Afterschool Room

The children in the afterschool room have been busy this month putting together all the Mother Hubbards News in the form of a

Newspaper . They also enjoyed learning more about Australia. We will also hold a little afterschool Valentines Ball on 14^th!!

                                      

                           Stretch & Grow

The Montessori children will have their last Gymboree Class on Friday. We will be holding a Stretch & Grow demonstration next week to see how the children enjoy this fun fitness program! We will then think about starting a 10 week program here at Mother Hubbards.

151 Blackcastle Lodge                          Phone: 046-9070558

Flowerhill                                           Fax:  046-9070670

Navan                                                 E-Mail:  Flowerhill@motherhubbardschildcare.ie

Nephin Road January 2011 Newsletter

Mother Hubbard’s Newsletter January 2011

Happy New Year to everyone & Welcome to 2011’s newsletter

January Birthdays

Luke will be 4yrs

Jack will be 3yrs

Catriona will be 2yrs

    Happy Birthday everyone…….

Welcome

We would like to welcome Martha to the Pre-Montessori room and her parents Catherine & David.

Also we would like to welcome Odin to the Pre-Montessori room. Odin is Lola’s little brother.

We hope you are all very happy here!

Dates for the Diary

We are closed 17^th March for St. Patrick’s Day and we are closed on 22^nd of April (Good Friday) & Monday 25^th April (Easter Monday)

Garda Visit

The Montessori children had a visit form the Gardai on Monday 10^th. They were all very excited and got to see the hand cuffs and their walkie talkies. All the children promised to be very careful crossing the road and to wear their seat belts in the car. They are all going to watch out for the police helicopter!         

        

Spare Clothes

We would ask all parents when they are bringing in spare clothes for their child to write their name or write their initial on the labels.

Reminders

If you are bringing medicine into the centre for us to give to your child can everyone make sure they fill out the medicine administration form. Thank you.

We would like to remind parents not to let their child bring in toys to crèche. The children sometimes fight over them or they might break the toy and this can be upsetting for the children. Thank you.

Speech & Drama will be starting back up on Friday 14^th January. It’s the start of a new term. Hilary will bring in new forms for it on Friday.

Also Gymboree is starting back on Thursday 13^th.

Lost & Found

We have a box on the hall table with clothes in it. Can everyone have a look to see if they own anything? If items are not claimed we will give them to charity. Thank you.

Don’t forget you can follow us on facebook & twitter! See our website www.motherhubbardschildcare.ie

Mother Hubbard’s

19 Nephin Road

Dublin 7

01 8260055

dublin7@motherhubbardschildcare.ie