Sue's Childminding - Alsager

We've been on an adventure today and went to the Royal Cheshire Show.
Before we went we chatted about what we might see and what would they like to see.
My little explorers had a great day seeing all the animals, there was even a "wow" when they saw the horses.
Excited pointing "tractor"
We saw bees and tried some very tasty honey.
They had a go at milking a cow.
Oh and the very yummy ice cream 😋

Well what a beautiful week we had last week.

Here is a taste of what we were up to....

Exploring ice, how it feels, using our water colours to paint it. Checking it to see what happens when it gets warm... then finding only water once it had all melted.

Lots of water play, catching balls and rolling them down the guttering.

Transporting water to the mud kitchen to make cups of tea using mint from the herb garden.

Tipping and pouring water into different containers and the water wall.

Using sponges to develop hand muscles when squeezing water out and into different containers. Not forgetting washing the dinosaurs.

🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝 World bee day 🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝

To celebrate world bee day we have used our play dough with our bee hives, hexagonal shapes, bees and flowers.

We talked about the shapes, counting the edges, named the hive and talked about how important bees are to us all.

They rolled the dough, pushed shapes into it and pretended to be bees.

Whilst playing in the garden we found a bee busy at work on our mud kitchen herb garden.🐝🐝🐝

Oh how I love it when a concept becomes becomes reality.

Equipment moved around so it's under our covered play area. Water table and wall, messy tray so many different ways to use these. Wooden stumps to be used for play dough, blackboard, mark making etc.....

Woodbark arrived today to freshen it all up.

Can't wait for my little explorers to see it Monday

I'm always looking at how I can improve my environment for my little explorers.

I wanted to provide shelter for us to play under to protect us from the rain and the sun when outside.

Gary from GB Garden WorX came out and we spoke about what I would like. He then came with his team and built a pergola for the children. This is the 2nd time Gary and his team have completed a job for me and I would 100% recommend them.

I love it, exactly what I wanted for my little explorers.

Watch this space to see it all set up and ready for my explorers.....

Happy 100th birthday Sir David Attenborough, have an amazing day.

I have grown up watching his amazing programs, educating us on the world out there that we can only dream of seeing ourselves. He is a true inspiration 🌍

I feel it's our duty to educate our younger generation to look after and care for the planet and all that live on it.

The children spotted some busy bees the other morning and stood watching them going from flower to flower, talking about honey and how they helped our vegetables grow last year.

I hope all the lovely Mummy's out there had a lovely Mother's day yesterday.
My little explorers were busy last week making their Mummy's something special.

As part of our Lunar New Year, year of the horse celebrations there was only one place to go, Cotebrook Shire Horse Center with our friends from Butterfly childcare Butterfly childcare.

We have had a great day, our explorers groomed a pony, saw shire horses and their foals which were so cute, horses out in the field which came to say hello to us.

Whilst we were there we saw otters, ferrets, polecats, foxes, wild cats and owls being fed which the children loved.

We had our first picnic this year looks like spring is on the way 🙏 Oh and not forgetting splashing in muddy puddles 😂😂

This morning my little explorer and I visited Glebe Farm.
We had a lovely time watching the sheep being fed, seeing the Highland cows, donkeys, pig, rabbits as well as all the other animals and jumping in puddles.
To finish off the trip we had a tractor ride driven by a former childminder friend of mine. 👏👏🚜🚜

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