Jayne burraway childminding house

We attended the Teddy Bears Picnic, a wonderful free event organised for early years children and educators with beds bough The children had a fantastic day .
The children enjoyed listening to stories, joining in with music sessions, meeting animals, taking part in collaborative art activities, and exploring forest school experiences. They also had opportunities to develop their physical skills through obstacle courses,. Seeing the police car was particularly exciting and encouraged conversations about people who help us in our community
The children thoroughly enjoyed the day and returned home with lots of stories to share .

Also they loved making ladybird pictures at group , and model making play dough into ladybirds .

Dinosaur morning , I set up a variety of activities for the children to explore.
From stomping dinosaurs in paint, to painting the dinosaurs.
Mixing primary colours together to see what colour they made ,
To washing the dinosaurs .

Another day we had rice Play ,
Talking about textures, describing actions (pouring, scooping, filling, emptying), introducing new vocabulary.

Children used scoop.s to transfer rice between containers, counting aloud and using mathematical language such as ‘full’ and ‘empty’. Demonstrated good hand-eye coordination and concentration.

The children enjoyed imaginative play using foam to create pretend ice creams. They explored the texture of the foam, scooped, poured, and moulded it into different shapes, developing their fine motor skills and hand-eye coordination. Through role-play, the children served ice creams to their friends this encouraged ,
communication, language development, and social interaction.
This activity supported areas of the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS), including Communication and Language as children shared ideas and engaged in conversations, Physical Development through manipulating tools and materials, and Personal, Social and Emotional Development as they worked together, took turns, and built relationships .The activity also promoted Expressive Arts and Design by encouraging imagination, creativity, and storytelling.
Next steps will include extending the role-play by introducing an ice cream shop, encouraging children to take orders, ,count scoops, and explore quantity, size, and capacity to further support their mathematical development.

This week we celebrated world bee day with crafts . The children asked to play dentists as they all love this .

 Also we did Spaghetti Scissor good fine motor activity using spaghetti
and scissors!
This hands-on experience encouraged the children to safely practise their cutting skills in a playful and sensory-rich way.
As they explored cutting the slippery spaghetti, the children developed their hand strength, coordination, and control.
They showed great focus and perseverance while learning how to hold and use scissors correctly, building confidence with each snip!
This activity also sparked lots of language, with the children describing how the spaghetti felt and what they were doing, supporting their communication skills.
EYFS Links:
• Physical Development - Developing fine motor skills and hand- eye coordination through scissor use.
• Communication and Language

Children loved playing in the frog set up the other day on the tuff tray . They did animal printing in paint and some straw blowing . Lots of threading and also they loved the spaghetti and the hoops . Also stickers to make funny faces . And always a favourite ringing the church bells .

Last week we made a dinosaur tray up , the children loved the role play and collecting the big leaves and wood from the park .They enjoyed the park as the weather was really nice and playing basketball and football .At the toddler group the children loved making hedgehogs out of playdough and putting spikes on them . We also practice cutting fruit with safety knives and afterwards they put them in the water to see if they would float or sink . Another day they enjoyed the cornflakes filling and emptying pots .