Toni’s Tots Childminding Eastbourne

Happy Easter 🐣

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Some of our Easter activities included:
•Mark making with paint and stamps
•Using a mixture of media and materials to design our own Easter eggs
•Sharing Easter stories
•Counting and sorting eggs by colour and size

Today at playgroup we enjoyed painting, building towers, playing with the tea set and exploring the Easter tray. We all loved making our own Easter crowns and gratefully received a little Easter treat. What better way to finish for the Easter Holiday 🐣 🥚 🐰 🍫

This morning we made some chocolate play dough as we spoke about Easter and receiving chocolate eggs. This was a great activity to use our senses and supported our learning as we:

•Listened to instructions
•Took turns
•Measured ingredients
•Learnt new words such as measure, knead and cocoa powder
•Used our fine motor skills as we mixed the ingredients, kneaded the dough and used the tools
•Observed changes as we added ingredients. One child noted it looked like coffee when we added the water
•Found out about celebrations and traditions
•Used our imagination to make our own creations

I spent yesterday doing my First Aid training with Daisy First Aid Eastbourne

On Wednesday we had a fun morning at a lovely new playgroup, then stopped off at the park to enjoy the nice weather before heading back for lunch…

How this promoted our learning and development:

PSE: Exploring new environments with familiar people. Develop resilience and have a go

CL: Listening and understanding rules. Learning new words. Joining in conversations

PD: Using fine motor skills to explore and use tools. Using gross motor skills to run, jump, push and climb

M: Explore shapes, counting, comparing and spatial reasoning

UTW: Learn about communities. Engage in nature

EAD: Investigate different materials

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Happy Mothers Day! 💐

This week some of our Mothers Day activities included:
•Making a collage of our Mummy
•Decorating a jar with stickers, filling it with water then cutting daffodils and writing a label
•Sticking flower cut outs to make a bouquet of flowers Mothers Day card
•Playing Mothers Day pairs
•Reading stories about Mummies

How this supported our learning and development:
PSE: Talking about our families and recognising similarities and differences
C&L: Listen to others and engage in conversation
PD: Show control using mark making tools and scissors
L: Listen to stories. Enjoy drawing and writing
M: Talk about shapes and sizes. Counting and using number names
UTW: Aware of and talk about own immediate family
EAD: Explore a range of materials