Category Archives: Recent Activities

Little Squirrels Newsletter February – April February and March have been two very busy months in Little Squirrels, we’ve had so much to do and such little time, but we got there! We started February by welcoming Chrysanthi into our school, who has come all the way from Greece to spend every day with us until the end of the school year. The children started off with the continents of North America, working through South America, Africa, Asia, Australia, and Antarctica finishing off with Europe. They focused on Ireland as we celebrated St. Patrick. When learning about this Marcela and Chrysanthi spoke with the children about their native countries Slovakia […]

Little Squirrels Newsletter Nov 2015 – Jan 2016 Welcome to our 2nd school newsletter, November to January has been a very busy time for us all in Little Squirrels. Winter has been our main theme under our nature/biology curriculum. Back in November we focused on how winter impacts on our lives, the shorter days and long cosy nights, the warm clothes and comforting foods. We did art work on the bare trees with glistening frost and this lead into the subject of animal hibernation. Again we did many parallel exercises here to back up out theme. (Stories, art work and our daily feeding the community birds at Little Squirrels). Running […]

We have been working hard practising our Christmas Nativity and Christmas Songs for our show next week for all the mammies and daddies. The children are very excited about their ‘show’, we know everyone will appreciate all the hard work they have put into this. Christmas Nativity Show Tuesday 15th December       11am

Little Squirrels Newsletter September – October We have had such a fantastic first two months at Little Squirrels this year. We have been very busy getting to know each other, and finding out each other’s personalities, both students and teachers. We are so grateful to Aaron’s dad Allan, who made our new ellipse shape on the floor in our classroom, which is wonderful and we use this for our morning Circle Time and story time after snack. We have been working through our Practical Life and Sensorial Materials, which everyone is now showing confidence in. The children are loving having Anna from High 5 Sports come every Tuesday, they are […]