tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12658169892932859852024-03-13T07:55:57.204-07:00Berkeley ChildmindingI am Rachel, a childminder in Plymouth, recently graded outstanding by Ofsted. This blog shares our activities at Berkeley Childminding, showing off the children's creative master pieces and favourite outings.
For more information visit my website: www.berkeley-childminding.co.ukBerkeley Childmindinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07608024891156482343noreply@blogger.comBlogger215125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1265816989293285985.post-81158072476995718522019-06-05T11:35:00.000-07:002019-06-05T11:35:01.641-07:00Train Trip<div style="text-align: justify;">
One of the brilliant aspects of childminding is that ,with our relatively small numbers, we are able to access areas of the community that are not so easy for larger settings. Today was no exception to this. We decided to go on a train trip. The timing was perfect as many of the children enjoy the small world train track within the setting and two of our gang had been on a steam train recently so it was good to show them the modern day alternative. </div>
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We identified the signs within the local area that gave directions to the local station and the children took great excitement from following these and telling us which way to go. Once on the platform there was great excitement about having to climb over the bridge. All children followed instructions to stand behind the yellow line for safety. We watched several trains pass through the station before ours stopped. </div>
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We boarded the train and the conductor sold us some tickets. He was generous enough to give each of the children their own special ticket. As the train moved the children pointed out aspects of the local area they recognised before we reached Plymouth Central Station. </div>
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While waiting for the train home we looked at train timetables and platform numbers that we recognised. The older children initiated a role play amongst themselves where they pretended to be conductors, holding out their hands for the tickets and stamping them! As we arrived back at our starting point the train driver kindly waved goodbye to all the children and tooted the horn! </div>
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Whilst this was a simple morning outing within the nearby community we covered all aspects of learning:-</div>
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PSED: The children all chatted on the train and took it in turns as they got on and off the vehicle</div>
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PD: We walked to the station and climbed the large bridge to cross the tracks safely</div>
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C&L: Instructions were followed and many questions were asked by the older children </div>
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L: The children looked for the letters they could identify within the station and followed signs</div>
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N: We talked about the shapes of the fronts of the trains and looked at the numbers of the platforms</div>
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UTW: The children enjoyed being out in the community and learnt how the computer screens conveyed information. </div>
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EA&D: The children initiated role play about being a train conductor </div>
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We aim to incorporate other cultural celebrations within the setting wherever we can in an age appropriate way. </div>
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This year we have covered many areas of learning to celebrate Chinese New Year. This year is the year of the pig so the children engaged in a pig counting activity. They rolled the dice and counted out the correct number of pigs, placing them on a tray. This also promoted turn taking. </div>
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For literacy and fine motor skills the children looked at the various animals that have represented each Chinese new year including rabbit and dragon. They identified the letter sounds from the picture cards and set about creating the animals using the small coloured shapes. </div>
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Using chopsticks and coloured sand the children attempted to recreate Chinese letters as well as numbers. Some simply used the chopsticks to make swirling patterns in the sand. </div>
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The children also got to express themselves in various ways through listening to Chinese music. They used musical instruments and danced with the dragon whilst waving coloured scarves to the music. The children have definitely enjoyed celebrating Chinese New Year!</div>
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<span style="text-align: justify;">The children get so excited about Christmas it is always great fun to find learning activities based around this theme. This year we have managed to find a wide range of activities that incorporate the children's interests. </span></div>
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We have visited several places within the local community that have enabled the children to socialise and view a wide range of Christmas displays. These have included the fairy tale displays at Saltram where the children discussed the lost shoe of the princess in the display. We have visited Buckland Abbey where the children discussed the size of the Christmas trees and all the items that could form part of a snowman. We finally went to Endsleigh where the children picked out letters they recognised from the display. The younger ones loved the lights and the noise and a different play space to negotiate! Furthermore we have had some lovely fresh air in this cold December weather. </div>
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We have done several activities including using fine motor skills to decorate the Christmas Trees and Christmas themed cards to write letters in the salt. We have also explored several sensory trays that have helped the senses and exploration of the younger children and enabling the older ones to create imaginative christmas stories. </div>
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Finally we used our crafting skills to make some lovely sponge prints to take home to our parents. The older children were able to chose colours and make lovely star prints. The younger children used the sponges (and their fingers!) to move paint around that could be cut into some festive star shapes. </div>
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On of my little ones loves the Highway Rat book by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler. Malden Forest run a trail associated with the book so we thought it was time to take full advantage of the surrounding environment and plan a day trip. </div>
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We had an amazing day out. The children loved finding the various checkpoints along the trail, discussing with their friends excitedly when they spotted a sign. Whilst doing this they talked about the story but also were so observant of the Autumn woodland. </div>
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We talked about the colours of the flowers and leaves that they could see, spotted wild mushrooms and used their developing writing skills to complete an Autumn Checklist. Our youngest, not yet mobile, was able to explore the forest floor using her sense. </div>
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The children then enjoyed the play area and having a social picnic together. This learning was taken back to the home environment where the boys used available props to dress up as the Highway rat and to finish the day we read the story once more - what a fun day of learning that was! </div>
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The natural colours at this time of year are so vibrant that we decided to try and create some of these colours by making our own watercolour paint using everyday spices. We went out through the woods and collected some autumn leaves, looking at all the different colours we could identify in the leaves.<br />
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Having chosen colours we then set about making paints. The children shook the spices into the palette, taking time to smell the spice and comment on this. We used cinnamon, ginger, cayenne pepper and mixed spice amongst others. The children then added water to the spices using pipettes and we mixed the resulting paste together.<br />
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We grabbed out paint brushes and the children set to work using the different colours to create works of art. The smell was amazing as all the spices got moved around. We left our art work to dry and added it to our autumn display.<br />
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This activity covered so many areas of learning and was great fun together with making the house smell heavenly!<br />
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<b>Social Development:</b> The children took turns sharing the pipettes and the spices<br />
<b>Physical Development</b>: The use of pipettes and mixing tools develops fine motor skills<br />
<b>Communication</b>: The children followed instructions to make the paint<br />
<b>Literacy</b>: Through using the paintbrushes the children developed early writing skills<br />
<b>Understanding the World</b>: We talked about Autumn and the reason for leaves changing colour<br />
<b>Being Imaginative</b>: The children designed their own artwork, expressing themselves through paintBerkeley Childmindinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07608024891156482343noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1265816989293285985.post-49557617145018142562018-10-08T07:53:00.000-07:002018-10-08T07:53:04.487-07:00Butterfly Phonics<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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For the past few weeks we have been attending a phonics session with another local childminder. I have been super impressed by the boys interest in the session as well as the aspects of learning covered within the hour and the huge range of amazing resources that Hazel brings each week.<br />
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The session starts by looking at two or three sounds of the phonetic alphabet, helping the boys recognise but more importantly attempt to sound the sounds as well as learning the accompanying actions. The session is very gentle and adapted to each child's needs so for the quieter ones they can watch and learn whilst others prefer to join in the more musical aspect when we sing the sounds.<br />
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Following this a session on fine motor skills is incorporated. This varies each week and so far we have had colours and turning cogs through to farmyard animals and using tweezers for picking up vegetables and fruit to tie in with the harvest festival.<br />
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A final part of the session focusses on counting and awareness of numbers This week's activity was farmyard bingo. Other activities have included rolling a dice and removing the resulting number of autumn leaves from the tree.<br />
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The session finishes with some singing and dancing followed by some quiet relaxing reflection time although the boys often fund this highly amusing! This is a great session that enhances their literacy and communication, understanding the world through the relevance of the topics and their numeracy. Additionally the chance to be expressive is offered through music and dance as well as meeting and socialising with different children. We love this session and will definitely attend again.Berkeley Childmindinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07608024891156482343noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1265816989293285985.post-61405994511633826292018-08-15T05:48:00.000-07:002018-09-14T05:49:48.321-07:00Hammered Flower Art<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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With so many beautiful colours in our nature garden at the moment I was determined to incorporate the vibrancy in some of the children's art work. We started by looking at the flowers we could see, discussing the sizes and colours and put a collection of some of the flowers together.<br />
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With it being a sunny day we decided some outdoor art work would be good and we then went to one of our tree stumps with some paper. Each child took it in turns to arrange some flowers on the tree stump. They took great care in their arrangements, talking about what colours they wanted where.<br />
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Younger children then used a wooden mallet and the older children used the hammer. Practising their skills at using tools they hammered away at the paper that we had placed over the top of their flower arrangements. This led to some beautiful colours being transferred to the paper.<br />
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Our only slight disaster was that one child had loved the colours of the berries so we agreed to place one in the picture. This did, possibly predictably, make the paper go rather soggy!<br />
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We were introduced to the work of a particularly inspirational lady, Claire Warden. I have therefore shared some of her quotes below together with photos from the last few months demonstrating the outdoor learning we undertake here at Berkeley Childminding to hi light the value we place on learning through nature. <br />
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<em style="color: #464646; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 13.859999656677246px;">Imagine a world where the lines were harsh and unyielding, the textures were consistent and variation is unheard of. Does it inspire you?</em><br />
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<em style="color: #464646; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 13.859999656677246px;">Now image a place where the carpet changes every day, the ceiling is a myriad of different colours, light, shadow and movement. </em><br />
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Berkeley Childmindinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07608024891156482343noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1265816989293285985.post-38762216021748916012018-03-28T05:05:00.000-07:002018-04-24T05:08:15.821-07:00Easter 2018<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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We have undertaken a variety of activities surrounding the celebration of Easter in order to cover all areas of learning at a level appropriate to the developmental stage of each child. </div>
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We joined a fellow childminder for some fun Easter themed sensory play. Available play resources included rice, egg shaped cups, chicks and some spoons.. The children played with their peers creating role play with the chicks, using the eggs for counting and discussing colours and the scoops and rice for enhancing their use of tools. </div>
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An important part of early years care is to promote healthy eating. Rather than eat chocolate eggs we decided to make our own These comprised frozen yogurt and some fresh fruit. The children tested their fine motor skills moving the yoghurt and fruit into the bowls and enjoyed sampling the fruit. </div>
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Finally as all of the children love creativity we used some Easter egg templates to decorate our own eggs with a variety of painting, colouring, sticking and peeling. In addition the residents in the residential home that we visit on a weekly basis worked with the children to create some Easter chick pictures. </div>
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Children love the opportunity to make gifts and cards for their mums and mums always deserve a little treat so we make the most of our mother's day opportunity each year. </div>
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This year the children engage in some finger painting to make flower cards. I loved the fact that using the same simple idea all of the cards were so different as children took the idea and developed it in their own way. Some of the children did very small delicate dots with their fingers whilst others swept the colours across the paper. </div>
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We have tried masking tape templates on paper before but never on glass. This was a concept given to us by a fellow childminder. I placed heart templates on the jars and let the children paint their jars with their own style and choice of colours. After peeling back the tape and inserting battery operated tea lights the children were so pleased with the glowing end results. Hopefully all of our mummies were too!</div>
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An important aspect of working with early years children is ensuring they have a good knowledge and understanding of the community within which they live. For this reason I try and provide the children with as many opportunities to interact with the local community as possible. Today we were lucky enough to be invited on a trip to Plymouth Synagogue.</div>
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The children (and me!) learnt some simple facts about Judaism. For example we talked about the Sabbath being a Saturday and a rest day and discussed how the women sit up in the gallery with the children while the men sit on the ground floor to worship. </div>
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The tour was very hands on for the children and they enjoyed a variety of dressing up, handling items from within the synagogue such as bells and bowls and, their favourite part, trying some Kosher snacks.</div>
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Channel 4 recently produced a documentary that followed the success for both children and residents of allowing four year olds to visit an old people's home. The theory behind the documentary was that a four year old is unhindered by prejudice and an 80 year age gap is no barrier to friendship. The young children are considered to force people to live in the moment. </div>
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Following on from this a fellow childminder arranged for us to visit Parkwood House several times a month with our minded children. We have been for two play sessions now and ,on both occasions, the staff and residents have been so welcoming. The children are able to play freely in a room where only residents who want to participate come and join us. In only two weeks the children have gained so much from the interaction whilst the smiles on the faces of the residents demonstrates the mutual enjoyment. One two year old went home telling his parents the names of the ladies he had met and asked me if we were going to go to the house with the blue door again!</div>
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Our activities so far have included singing, pom pom throwing, reading and puzzles and playing with the inflatable hoopla game. The children have already got to know some of the names of the residents and are keen to interact with these new play mates! The biggest all round success has been singing time which gets everyone attempting some tunes!</div>
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This is an activity that we would definitely like to develop further as we feel this not only benefits the residents but meets all areas of learning for the children:</div>
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<b>Personal, Social and Emotional Development: </b>social interaction with both adults and their peers</div>
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<b>Physical Development: </b>We have done puzzles and throwing games developing fine and gross motor skills. </div>
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<b>Communication and Language:</b> The children are following instructions, talking to residents and to each other. </div>
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<b>Literacy</b>: Children are reading books with the residents</div>
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<b>Numeracy</b>: Children have been completing puzzles through to counting out the number of fish in the house fish tank. </div>
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<b>Understanding the World:</b> Children are gaining an understanding of their community </div>
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<b>Expressive Art & Design:</b> Children have been singing and dancing </div>
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<span style="text-align: justify;">A big part of the early years curriculum is enabling children to engage with an understand with community within which they reside. The children get very excited about seeing the postman when we are out and about and always comment on the post that has been delivered when we get home. </span><br />
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In order to help their understanding of this process all of the children drew some pictures that they were particularly proud of! We then placed them in an envelope and the children looked as I wrote the address, picking out the letter sounds that they recognised.<br />
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Our eldest two children both picked out the number 2 on the 2nd class stamp and stuck it on the envelope ready for posting. There was much excitement about posting the letter and even more excitement a few days later when our pictures finally reappeared on our doorstep courtesy of the postman. </div>
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Finally we arranged a short visit to our Local Sorting Office so that the children could see where the post from all the post boxes is sorted. The staff were brilliant with the children and gave them lots of cards to colour on as well as giving a great demonstration of the sorting machines. </div>
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The children take great pride in taking things home that they have made themselves as well as enjoying giving gifts to their parents. For that reason we focussed on a variety of different things that the children could take home from art and craft projects through to baked goods. </div>
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For cards and decorations the children used their increasing dexterity to stick tissue paper to objects, spread glue and pick up small gems to decorate their items with. They used their language and understanding of the world to ask for different coloured paper and gems. We had some interesting reactions to glue on fingers with some definitely less bothered than others. </div>
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The children were so excited to be making gingerbread shapes and all washed their hands in preparation. They took it in turns to weigh, pour, mix and roll as well as selecting cutters to finally cut out their shapes. They waited eagerly while the gingerbread cooked and were keen to tell their parents about the presents that they had made them for Christmas. </div>
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Play dough is a firm favourite here and adding a Christmas theme to our tough ensured the children were keen to come and play. Children were provided with dough and rolling pins together with Christmas tree shaped cutters enabling them to cut out their own trees. </div>
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Through providing jars of stars and gems the children were soon in the mood for tree decorating. Even with the same base materials the different ages and creative skills of the children resulted in a wide variety of finished products. </div>
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This activity enabled children to practice their fine motor pincer grip together with lots of pushing and pinching skills as they worked together to decorate their trees in their own creative ways. </div>
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Understanding the community within which they live is import for developing children in order for them to make sense of their identity and relate to the world around them. Over the past week we have looked at age related activities that enable children to understand both Armistice Day and Bonfire Night. </div>
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In preparation for Armistice Day the children initially watched a short CBeebies film about the relevance of the poppy. We talked about the war, the poppies and the 2 minutes silence. Having watched how poppies are made in the factory we thought it would be fun to create our own. Using egg cartons the children used red paint to make poppies and then stuck lolly sticks on for the stems. </div>
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Plymouth Hoe currently has a display consisting of a wave of poppies cascading up the naval memorial and we though it would be nice for the children to see and relate to the poppies they had made. We were lucky enough to have a beautiful sunny day for our visit. </div>
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Also this week one of the children was telling us about the firework display they had seen. We talked a bit about the colours and shapes of the fireworks she had seen together with the shapes and sounds they made. The children decided they would like to create some pictures of fireworks so we called upon one of our favourite art methods for bonfire night of combining glue and glitter on black paper. </div>
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The children absolutely love choosing colours and shaking the glitter pots although glitter can be found for weeks after the art work has dried!</div>
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Play dough is a great resource that encourages open ended play while, through its malleable nature, allows children to develop their hand and wrist muscles in preparation for writing. It encourages exploration when combined with other objects and often forms the basis for mathematical development through promoting counting and discussions about shapes and sizes. </div>
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For that reason play dough is a much loved resource here and the children thought it was great when presented with Autumn coloured play dough together with some of the Autumn objects we collected from out and about. </div>
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The children are encouraged to share a wide range of tools and often, after starting individually, begin to work together to create structures of invent stories. One child decided to sort out all the conkers and push them into the dough and, with encouragement, began to count the objects. </div>
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I was impressed with the wide range of colourful results and, as ever, our school age children couldn't resist coming and joining in. </div>
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Autumn creates so many learning opportunities and we love being out and about at this time of year. The leaves falling off the trees provide opportunity to talk about changing seasons whilst the leaves themselves provide opportunity to talk about colour. <div>
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The children enjoyed several mornings at both Saltram and the wildlife area at Devonport Park playing in the leaves, on the play equipment and looking for the various insects that live in such habitats. </div>
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After collecting a variety of leaves (the children love the responsibility of carrying their own bag too collect leaves) we took some home to create some Autumn art through a range of sticking and glitter shaking. <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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It is important that children learn where their food comes from in order to establish a healthy diet and a good relationship with food as well as developing healthy eating habits. This term we have undertaken a number of activities to help the children learn about their food whilst having fun. </div>
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Together with another childminder we planted and then harvested some potatoes. The children helped tip out the contents of the pots and took it in turns to find potatoes within the mud. Some used their hands whilst others were more comfortable with spades. The children discussed and then put into practice washing the mud from the potatoes. This was also a great opportunity for counting them out and incorporating size language. </div>
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Once our potatoes were clean we cooked them and included them within our lunch with each child enjoying tasting them.<br />
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Our term ended in a slightly damp trip to the local pick your own. The children were not put off by the rain and were keen to all have a go at picking a variety of fruit and vegetables ranging from strawberries and raspberries through to carrots and onions.<br />
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We were lucky enough to have the farmer show off a section of fruit and vegetables to the children before taking them home for lunch. For the older children I used the opportunity to enable use of knives for cutting up the strawberries before the children polished these off with a large spoon of ice cream!<br />
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Even the youngest of children are often fascinated by butterflies and the children here are no exception. This gives the perfect way in which to start to teach them about life cycles, something that will enable them to connect with nature as they develop and start to gain an understanding of basic science. </div>
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We started with 5 caterpillars that the children came and counted on a daily basis as well as commenting on their size and their movement. We talked about the food that the caterpillars were eating and the fact that we must not put them in the direct sun. It is important that the children can relate such activities to the outdoor environment and we were lucky enough to find some caterpillars on one of our trips to the local nature garden at the park. </div>
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Whilst our caterpillars grew and became chrysalises we undertook a range of age-appropriate activities with older ones discussing the life cycle order for the caterpillars from egg through to butterfly with the aid of our toy models and appropriate picture books through to painting butterfly pictures for the younger children. </div>
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Finally our butterflies all hatched safely and, having fed them with flowers and orange juice, it was time to release them to the wild, something that the children particularly enjoyed. </div>
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Other life cycles that we have covered this term include that of the frog with several visits to Saltram House to view the frogspawn and subsequently tadpoles and frogs together with that of fruit, predominantly focussing on strawberries and a trip to the local pick your own.Berkeley Childmindinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07608024891156482343noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1265816989293285985.post-63969835461106355022017-06-23T06:45:00.001-07:002017-06-23T06:45:15.531-07:00Heatwave Week<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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With the heatwave we have had this week my priority has been keeping the children cool and out of the direct sun but we have still managed to incorporate a variety of fun play activities!<br />
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We have been to another childminder's house to play with both water and ice cubes in her lovely shaded outdoor space. Children were fascinated by the colours, shapes and textures of the ice. They realised they had to share them out so they could all get a turn to explore. One child was determined to squeeze the ice as hard as she possibly could until it melted!<br />
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We have visited the sensory garden in Devonport Park and used the shade of the trees there to enable the children to explore. With the absence of play equipment they soon invented their own games including hide and seek through to chase. We also introduced some bubbles that were being swept around rapidly by the wind creating much excitement for the children.<br />
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Our final morning was spent at West Hoe Park where the cloud cover provided some relief from the heat. Hear the children were all able to develop their physical skills, working together to push the roundabout and then using the climbing frames and slides as well as the large boat which was great for imaginative play.<br />
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<b>PSED</b>: children have enhanced social skills through working together to share resources, come up with games to play and push the roundabout together.<br />
<b>Physical Development:</b> Numerous opportunities for running, climbing and balancing through to ball catching and kicking.<br />
<b>Communication:</b> Children have listened to and followed instruction, communicated with each other and heard new language introduced through play to describe the ice.<br />
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<b>Literacy</b>: Children used water and paintbrushes to make marks through to looking at the signs in the play areas.<br />
<b>Maths</b>: Children commented on the number and shapes of the ice cubes through to playing hopscotch in the park.<br />
<b>Understanding the World:</b> Children have enjoyed being out within the community.<br />
<b>Expressive art and Design:</b> Children used their imagination to invent games and used the natural resources in the park to invent games.Berkeley Childmindinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07608024891156482343noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1265816989293285985.post-85740912363187584252017-03-23T10:23:00.000-07:002017-04-27T10:25:42.234-07:00Mother's Day 2017<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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We have used Mothering Sunday as a good excuse to engage our creative sides as well as an opportunity to plants some seeds and learn about plant growth with a variety of kitchen herbs. </div>
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The children all love painting and were able to experiment with different forms of mark making, using their fingers to create flowers on pots and then brushes to create some beautiful watercolours which we later cut into flowers. Our eldest mindee decided he would like to paint his mum some flowers and carefully picked the colours and washed his brush after each colour. </div>
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To plant seeds we made use of expanding soil. The children all took turns in pouring water on to their soil and then moving the soil into pots. We introduced language to describe the change in size and texture of the soil. </div>
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Children had great fun pressing the seeds down into the soil and watering them. All the children were very impressed with their efforts, let's hope the mums like them just as much! </div>
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In order to celebrate world book day this year we had a 'Goldilocks and the Three Bears' themed session courtesy of one of our fellow childminders. </div>
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We read the book with the children who all took turns at lifting the flaps and discussing, where able, what they could see underneath. We talked about aspects of the story that hey liked and what they thought would happen next.</div>
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Also provided was some sensory play based on various sizes of bowls and spoons. The children tested out their shopping and mixing skills and, with many children present, were encouraged to take turns and share. </div>
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Today was Shrove Tuesday and we had a few activities planned that even the youngest children could participate in in order to enhance children's understanding of their community. Initially a fellow childminder set out a role play tray. We talked about the ingredients used to make pancakes and about using up the food before we give up some of our favourite items for lent. The children pretended to mix, break eggs and generally make pancakes for each other.<br />
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Then came the cooking and eating element of the day! The children watched how the pancakes were cooked and then all had a go at trying to flip a pancake. They chose some toppings and then attempted to squeeze some lemon juice to go on their pancakes.<br />
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Later in the week the activity was extended through incorporation of some pancake themed messy play. I incited the children to play with flour, some small jugs of water and a combination of utensils. For the benefit of the older children there were numbers and words that they could incorporate into their play. The children had a great time scooping the flour into the water, stirring, pouring and eventually being brave enough to get their hands into the dough!<br />
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On their return from school our older children were keen to come and play and introduced the concept of making the dough into pancakes that hey could attempt to flip.Berkeley Childmindinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07608024891156482343noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1265816989293285985.post-8514142764896153462017-01-26T06:41:00.000-08:002017-02-01T06:42:46.781-08:00Chinese New Year 2017<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Due to the diversity of modern society it is important that children learn about cultural diversity from a young age. I aim to incorporate special celebrations of other cultures and this week we have been celebrating Chinese New Year. With a wide age range opresent this year I chose a variety of ways to ensure that children of all ages were able to participate in the Chinese New Year festivities. </div>
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All children had a lovely time engaging in sensory play with noodles and chopsticks along with some colours, glitter and several other tools to develop imagination and fine motor skills. This play was extended for older children with some banners to enhance letter recognition and some glass pebbles in gold and red to promote counting and sorting. </div>
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The older children particularly enjoyed dressing up in some Chinese clothes as well as watching a powerpoint presentation about Chinese New Year kindly provided by another childminder. We also read our Chinese New Year book showing pictures of the celebrations involving children. </div>
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The favourite activity involved food where the children tried some egg fried rice, some noodles and some lovely vegetable spring rolls. We talked about what vegetables were used and the differences between the textures of the food. </div>
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