Mother Hubbards
Newsletter
October and November 2014
Welcome to our first
newsletter of the new school year. This term we would like to welcome all of
the new children who started with us at the beginning of September and their
parents. We hope you are all very happy here at Mother Hubbards.
Happy
Birthday
We
have lots of birthdays in October and November. Happy birthday to everyone
celebrating their birthday.
Children are more than welcome
to celebrate their birthday with us in the centre and parents may send in a
cake and some treats if they wish.
Congratulation’s,
To Cian in our playschoo
room on the birth of his baby sister Erin, and our area Manager Catherine on
the birth of her baby girl Lucy.
Reminders
·
When entering the baby room and wobbler rooms, can all
parents /Guardians wear shoe covers that are provided outside these rooms.
·
The cold weather is starting to come upon us so can all
parents please ensure their child has a suitable coat to wear while playing
outside.
·
Can parents please make sure your child has spare clothes in
the crèche and also make sure they are labelled?
·
After school children are encouraged to bring in a change of
clothes so they can change out of their uniforms. Please remember to label all
of your child’s belongings!
·
We would like to stress that we close at 6.30pm sharp and
that parents must be here to collect their children no later than this. Late
collection has a knock on affect to staff members who have commitments outside
the working hours.
Fundraisers
A big thank you to
everybody who took part in our Cheerio’s Child line Breakfast morning. Cheerios
Childline Breakfast together was held on 10th October. We all had
lots of fun eating our yummy Cheerios with our friends.
On
Friday 3rd October staff and children wore pink and took park in
pink themed games and activities to raise awareness of the Irish Cancer
Society’s Paint it Pink Day. Thank you for all your donations
.
Halloween games and recipes
Brain digging
Brain digging
You will need:
§ a
big bowl of cooked spaghetti
§ some
Ping-Pong balls or similar
§ some
small bags of sweets
Get the kids to dig in amongst some bits of 'brain' to find a trick or
treat! Cook up a big pan of spaghetti, leave to cool for a moment and then turn
into a big bowl. In amongst the pasta hide some Ping-Pong balls or similar.
Three balls have 'treat' written on them, and three have 'trick' written on
them. Each child gets a turn to dig inside the 'brains' and pull out a ball. If
they choose a trick ball they have to do a forfeit (something silly, like run
around the garden twice, or do a silly impression), but if they pick a treat
they get a small prize, such as a small bag of sweets. Pretty yucky!!!!!!!!
Make
your own toffee/chocolate apples
You
will need
Selection
of apples, ready pierced with sticks Toffee apples
Bowls
filled with melted toffee/chocolate, hundreds and thousands, chocolate strands
or other things to stick on the apples
Greaseproof
paper to cool the apples on.
This
is a nice easy one and the children can take their handiwork home at the end of
the party (if they can hold off eating them!) Each child takes an apple and
dips it into the toffee and then rolls their apple into their preferred
sweeties! Yummmmy
It's
easy to make your own toffee mixture or you can melt down shop-bought toffee
sweets. Be sure that the mixture is not boiling hot when the children are
making their toffee apples.
Each child
is given a straw cut in half. (Shorter straws are easier to suck and hold the
marshmallow) They then have to race to see who can suck up a marshmallow the
fastest. Once a child scores a marshmallow they can eat it, and sit out to let
another child have a turn if they cannot all fit around the basin at one time.
Keep rotating until all the kids have had one or two marshmallows.
Banana Ghosts.
Ingredients
200g bar
white chocolate, broken into chunks.
4
medium-large, ripe bananas
85g
desiccated coconut (you won’t use it all)
Handful dark chocolate drops
Method
In a small bowl, gently melt the chocolate either in the microwave – in
short bursts on high or over a pan of simmering water (make sure the bowl isn’t
touching the water). Set aside for a moment while you get the bananas ready.
Peel the bananas, cut in half, and push a lolly stick into the middle of
each piece. Spread the coconut out in a shallow bowl. Line a large baking tray
with baking parchment, and make sure there is room for the tray in the freezer.
Using a pastry brush, coat
a banana half in chocolate, letting excess drip away. Sprinkle with plenty of
the coconut until coated, then set it on the prepared sheet.Now add two
chocolate eyes and a mouth, and if you like, cut a few little eyebrows from the
chocolate drops too. Freeze the lollies for at least 4 hrs, and up to a week.
Have a Happy Hallloween!!!!
Reminder
to all parents that you can join our Facebook
and Twitter pages and receive this monthly newsletter and other
information, just go our website www.motherhubbardschildcare.ie and follow the links
No 6 the Avenue
Ongar Village D.15 Phone:
01 8260055
Dublin 15 E-Mail: ongar@motherhubbardschildc