Kilminchy School House

25/02/2023

Dear Followers, due to technical issues with FB this past year on our old page 'Kilminchy School House', we will be retiring this page shortly. Please share and follow us on our new page. See the link below. Thank you, regards Sonya Duggan
Kilminchy School House Portlaoise

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22/02/2023

Dear Followers - due to technical issues with FB this past year on our old public page 'Kilminchy School House', we will be retiring this page shortly. Please share and follow us on our new page - 'KilminchySchoolhousePortlaoise'. See the link below. Thank you, regards Sonya Duggan
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Laois County Childcare Committee CLG Early Childhood Ireland Association of Childhood Professionals Laois People Laois and Offaly Education and Training Board Leinster Express / Laois Live Portlaoise Community Noticeboard Laois People

Kilminchy School House Montessori & Day Care
OFFERS Full Day Care, Part- Time and School Age Care.
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19/02/2023

Love & Self-Care ❤️

The Butterflies were all loved up this week for Valentines 💘 We spoke about what love means to us, who we love and what we love about ourselves.

We talked about worries, and made some manifestations of our worries to rip up and throw away. It was so therapeutic for our little ones. After that hard work, we had a relaxing spa evening. And that was only the beginning of a fabulous week 💗

Well done to the amazing little butterflies. We’ve never felt so much love in the room! 😍

Laois County Childcare Committee CLG Early Childhood Ireland Association of Childhood Professionals Laois People Laois and Offaly Education and Training Board Leinster Express / Laois Live Portlaoise Community Noticeboard Laois People Mary Immaculate College, Ireland Discovery Playtime Laois Nationalist

17/02/2023

Looks like a great opportunity for our parents whose butterflies will be flying off to primary school soon enough 🤩

15/02/2023

Happy Valentines Day ❤️

We hope our little valentines had a super day. We are so proud of you every single day and adore each and everyone one of you. We guarantee nobody goes to work and feels as loved as we do every day 💕 Thank you xx

Laois County Childcare Committee CLG Early Childhood Ireland Association of Childhood Professionals Laois People Laois and Offaly Education and Training Board Leinster Express / Laois Live Portlaoise Community Noticeboard Laois People RTÉ Mary Immaculate College, Ireland

07/02/2023

Robot Workshop 🤖🔧⚙️

This week in the Butterfly Room, we decided we wanted to find out how things work, and this led us to some of the most interesting inventions…robots!

We started off small - making robots from clay, crafting them with card and loose parts, printing gears and cogs in paint, painting robots on tinfoil - and finished big, creating our very own life-size robots out of cardboard boxes!
We were so excited to use real tools, screws, nuts and bolts this week, so we elevated this by exploring old electrical household items, taking them apart, seeing what’s inside and figuring out how they work 🔌

We loved seeing how creative and curious our little Butterflies were this week - we may have some budding mechanics and engineers in our midst 😉

Laois County Childcare Committee CLG Early Childhood Ireland Association of Childhood Professionals Laois People Laois and Offaly Education and Training Board Leinster Express / Laois Live Portlaoise Community Noticeboard RTÉ Laois People Mary Immaculate College, Ireland Discovery Playtime Laois Nationalist

31/01/2023

Montessori Moments ✨

A Montessori classroom values independence and deep respect for the children as individuals and directors of their own learning. In our carefully prepared environment, we take care to change and update materials as appropriate when skills evolve and are mastered 💪🏼 Our teachers support and scaffold experiences to strengthen our ever-growing life skills so that one day, we won’t need them anymore! Just look at how amazing we are….

And never forgetting our class motto that hangs on our wall- “You can do Hard Things” 👏🏼

Laois County Childcare Committee CLG Early Childhood Ireland Association of Childhood Professionals Laois and Offaly Education and Training Board Laois People Leinster Express / Laois Live Portlaoise Community Noticeboard RTÉ Mary Immaculate College, Ireland Laois People Discovery Playtime Laois Nationalist

31/01/2023

Would love to highly recommend this book. One of our Parents from Little Stars Montessori Kilminchy has released it. It is available in local books in Portlaoise and on line and is available free to download. Donna Mills, Children's Author , would appreciate if you would like to give a review. Wishing her every success.Many thanks
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30/01/2023

Roll up, Roll up! Get ready to see the most SPECTACULAR boys and girls on EARTH🎪🤡 ✨

Our Circus theme was an emergent interest of Jake’s who was lucky enough to visit the circus recently and has been all about it ever since! 🤩

We enjoyed lots of gross motor games and fun whilst practising under the Big Top and finished the week with a show for the babies who were simply astonished by our talent 🤣🎪 The creativity, expression and confidence was AMAZING 🎉

Laois County Childcare Committee CLG Early Childhood Ireland Laois and Offaly Education and Training Board Association of Childhood Professionals Laois People Portlaoise Community Noticeboard Leinster Express / Laois Live Laois People Mary Immaculate College, Ireland Laois Nationalist Discovery Playtime

23/01/2023

Julia Donaldson📚

The toddlers explored the world of Julia Donaldson through stories and activities related to her amazing array of books. We could honestly do a month of her work!

We recreated the story of "The snail and the whale" and "Tabby Mc Tat" through free painting, sticking and putting glitter and sequins on our picture, resembling what each child imagine how the story looked like🐈‍⬛️

The children got creative with natural materials by making our very own "Stick man" with twigs and green sugar paper, sticking down eyes to further bring our stick men to life via art and playdough🌿

Paper dolls were coloured in pencils supporting our pincer grip and fine motor control to corroborate with the beautiful story of "The Paper Dolls", which is a great story that deals with loss🪆

The story of "The Grufflo" and "One Ted falls out of bed" were brought to life through a real life scene, exploring his cave, the animals and all things featured in the book. Our Ted was put back to his bed and we counted the ten blocks featured in the story. "One Ted falls out of bed" which is a fantastic counting book for young children🧸

In addition, we also explored an edible sensory tub of the "Superworm", with edible mud and edible worms🪱

What a great week it's been. Our children love books and we love planning our themes to what the children are interested in. Julia Donaldson is one of the best children's author, and is exceptional of not just created new worlds , but dealing with real life issues in a creative but sensitive manner🌍

How amazing is our Julia Donaldson board?📚
Laois County Childcare Committee CLG Association of Childhood Professionals Early Childhood Ireland Laois People Laois and Offaly Education and Training Board Leinster Express / Laois Live