Our next Aistear theme will be the Post Office. If you have anything that could be used for this, such as a postoffice counter, old envelopes, unwanted stamps, wrapping paper etc, that would be fantastic.
We have been looking at the different roles of people in the Health Centre during the month of November. It has been lots of fun. Here we are in action, visiting the doctor. We played being doctors, nurses, receptionists and patients. Lots of health checks were done, injections took place (a few sneaky ones for scared patients) and prescriptions were written.
We have been looking at the different roles of people in the Health Centre during the month of November. It has been lots of fun. Here we are in action, visiting the doctor. We played being doctors, nurses, receptionists and patients. Lots of health checks were done, injections took place (a few sneaky ones for scared patients) and prescriptions were written.
We visited the optician's and had our eye sight tested. We had two charts, one for those who knew their letters and one with symbols for those who didn't, just like in the real optician's. Some people discovered that they needed glasses and they tried on lots of different frames to see what they would like.
We were busy constructing health centres and ambulances (which had to be able to fit one of our small world people inside.) We had great fun making body outlines using the blocks. Some of them morphed into car parks and ambulance bays.
The art area was very popular, especially the junk art task. Look at all the fantastic creations. We made x-ray pictures using chalk and cotton buds. Some of the children broke the cotton buds up to show their broken bones. We did great process focused painting using syringes and droppers. It was interesting to see what happened when we squirted the syringe from up high compared to down low and what a difference the force we used on it made. We made glasses out of pipe cleaners and circles...wow, that was a challenge!
We also had a science area where we explored and sorted by "hard and soft." Some items were a little tricky. We found that the best way was to try to bend them or squeeze them to see if it was hard or not. We also found out that harder items made a bigger noise as they were being dropped.
We used catalogues from Lidl and Dunnes to find healthy and treat foods and we cut them out and sorted them also.
We used catalogues from Lidl and Dunnes to find healthy and treat foods and we cut them out and sorted them also.
We have been really lucky to have Adam in to do GAA with us on Mondays, which has been fantastic. Adam brought in the Sam McGuire cup after the Dublin win! We had Joey in from Leinster Rugby doing some games on with us, which will be happening every second Tuesday for the next few weeks.
The injections took place on Wednesday and everyone was very brave. There were some sore arms and tired bodies. Our teddies were a great comfort, even if some were a little greedy eating up our lunches!!