Kim's Childcare, Glasgow Eastend Childminder

We shall be collecting leaves for this next week please ensure wellies each day for the crazy weather that may/probably/likely will be 🤭🌧️

Learning about different modes of transport -buses cars, trains, hot air balloons, roller skates ❤️, helicopter, bicycle, and motorbikes. Our favourite books this week are the tiger who came to tea and what the ladybird heard. Stencils and paint practicing this skill, decorating photo frames, jigsaws, football, climbing, what's the time little wolf to name a few 🎉

Did you know your childs funding follows them and you can share it with multiple settings including childminders?, you cannot be forced to take all hours with one setting you have a choice of in what capacity too, term time or full term too.
https://www.childminding.org/elc

Kim's Childcare offers term time placements for under 5s and before and after school, current school for drop off and collection is St Francis of Assisi in Baillieston Noticeboard

Some reasoning behind the activities I do ♥️

CROSSING THE MIDLINE IS IMPORTANT

Activities to Help a Child Cross the Midline

Arts and crafts (coloring, drawing, threading, cutting, pasting, folding)
Learning a musical instrument that engages both hands (piano, violin or guitar)
Swimming
Martial arts (punching and kicking across the body)
Playing games like Twister or Simon Says
Marching like toy soldiers
Stretching and reaching (get child to reach as high as they can with their right hand and then try to touch as low as they can to their left toe)
Yoga (try Cosmic Kids)
Dancing (GoNoodle or You Tube are great)
Ribbons and streamers (make circles and patterns)
Hop scotch
Move like animals (crawl like a crab, bear walk, hop like a bunny, stand like a flamingo)
Draw figure eights on the ground (using chalk) or on a chalkboard (practicing on vertical surfaces adds another dimension)
Practice with zippers, buttons, shoelaces, snaps

https://holfamily.com/why-crossing-the-midline-is-key-to-your-childs-physical-and-emotional-development/

Hi I'm looking for donations of metal coat hangers to make these fab wreaths ♥️

Timeline photos

📣Schools Update

Nurseries, primaries and ASL schools will close on 6, 7 and 8 Sept due to industrial action.

Letters have been sent to all families today (25 Aug), with details and we will post any updates as soon as we have them.

Read the letter 👉🏻 http://ow.ly/csmL50Kscjs

Another school and nursery strike next month

The councils notified include: Aberdeenshire, Clackmannanshire, East Renfrewshire, Glasgow City, Inverclyde, Orkney, North Lanarkshire, Stirling and South Lanarkshire councils.

Read more: https://unison-scotland.org/unison-serve-notices-for-school-and-early-years-strikes/

Consent is learned from babies please be cautious when forcing family kisses on your little ones, when they are able to say no or show discomfort respect their choices ❤️

Love this chart, a person with autism will do something from the list below over over, it's their comfort, stimming can increase due to stress and happiness the speed of the stim changes depending on the emotion being felt ❤️

49 Phrases to Calm an Anxious Child

Sharing this wonderful blog again, phrases to help an anxious child, those you who have experienced anxiety know how debilitating it truly is, imagine not having the understanding, words or ability to say it let alone cope. We need to teach our children strategies to cope and that it's ok to not be ok https://psychcentral.com/blog/stress-better/2016/03/49-phrases-to-calm-an-anxious-child #1

49 Phrases to Calm an Anxious Child Have an anxious child? Try one of these 49 phrases: You are safe, what color is it, can you draw it, tell me the worst case, and more...

Hi everyone if I haven't reach out to you already please note I have availability for a Monday full day age 0-5years) from September and added thursday from October, if you are interested please reach out, and sharing this post would be most grateful ❤️

As always busy behind the scenes, making memories and learning while we have fun ❤️

Kiddies would love this, biggest balloons ❤️

🚂STRATHAVEN BALLOON FESTIVAL 2022🚂

The only balloon festival in Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 will take place over the bank holiday weekend 26th ,27th and 28th of August, see link to their information. https://en-gb.facebook.com/strathavenbf/
The railway will open for extended hours all of this weekend weather permitting-

Friday the 26th 16.00 to 20.00hrs
Saturday the 27th 10.00am till 20.00hrs
Sunday the 28th 10.00am till 20.00hrs

We hope that the weather will be kind to the festival attendees 🌞 and that we will be able to give rides to the visitors from far and wide🌎

If anyone takes a ride in a hot air balloon and can take an aerial shot 🎥 of the railway we would very much like to have this to put on our website etc. We have just about finished extending the raised track 😮‍💨 and do not have a new image from above the site ☹️
Thank you to all our many supporters 👏🏻and we hope to see you over this holiday weekend. From the Wee Train. 👋🏻 🚂

Another week has past, we visited a birds of prey centre when a an American kestrel landed on Kim's head it was very funny!, We have visited a few play parks. We learned about shadows drawing around dinosaurs and ourselves. Had yummy ice lollies in the sun. Had a fruit and veg tasting where we chopped our own snacks we had carrots, apricots, peppers, lemons,apples and mangoes! Yum yum. Our kinder mindees practiced their shapes on jigsaws and threading numbers and shapes, wow so much fun and learning.

I buy my own kids stickers from tiny me, they are great, they offer daily free stickers for the letter of the day perfect for back to school ❤️

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❤️ making memories x

🎉🎉 sounds like it will be great!

Some updated information in safer sleep ❤️

Safe Sleep - Easy Read Leaflet - Scottish Cot Death Trust

https://scottishcotdeathtrust.org/safe-sleep-easy-read-leaflet/

Safe Sleep - Easy Read Leaflet - Scottish Cot Death Trust Why is safe sleep important? Every year in Scotland one baby dies suddenly and unexpectedly every 9 days. 97% of these deaths happen to babies where known risk factors that increase the likelihood of a cot death are present. Often more than one risk factor is present. By ensuring babies sleep in the...

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Hey I'm On holiday for two weeks will get back to messages after my break ❤️❤️❤️

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Choosing our own accessories to play outside developing sense of self, responsibility and encouraging individuality ❤️making Chalk paint outdoors making wellie prints on the slabs. Heuristic play, cooking tasting raw veggies and chopping them up for soup promoting healthy eating and independence is just down of the things that happens at Kim's house ❤️ ❤️

We don’t appreciate the years of little kids while we’re in them.⁣
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Because humans never do until it's too late and they're gone.⁣
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While we're in it, we often wish parts of it away,⁣
the hardly any time to ourselves,⁣
the crawling across the floor to put away puzzles and crayons,⁣
the peeling off stickers,⁣
and scraping muffins and scrambled eggs off the kitchen floor.⁣
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We wish away the tantrums,⁣
the constant fighting,⁣
the bad behavior,⁣
the non-stop laundry,⁣
and the exhaustion ALL THE TIME.⁣
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We wish away every imperfect moment that makes our skin crawl.⁣
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But one day, it will be over⁣
and we’ll miss it—
ALL OF IT.⁣
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We’ll miss the giggles,⁣
the smiles,⁣
the “not wiped off” kisses,⁣
and chubby arms and toothless grins.⁣
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We’ll miss being needed,⁣
the crooked teeth,⁣
the time spent together,⁣
and hearing “Mommy look!” every two minutes.⁣
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We’ll miss who we are RIGHT NOW as individuals and a family.⁣
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Because soon new people will be living in our house with us. Their faces and voices will morph into someone else’s.⁣
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And they’ll keep changing.⁣
And we’ll be new people, too.⁣
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So, let’s try to take in ALL OF IT—⁣
the bad, hard, and the good—⁣
and not take any of it for granted.⁣
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Because I guarantee,⁣
one day soon,⁣
we’ll miss THIS.
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Living FULL

A new phonics sound chart courtesy of mindees gran and papa ❤️

2022/23 school clothing grant and free school meals application is now available on the GCC website https://www.glasgow.gov.uk/index.aspx?articleid=17885

Living our best lives in the sunshine, and rearranging the cushions from the couch to the floor 🤣

Releasing our butterflies, chalking, sandplay garden exploration, and tea party with fellow Childminder and friends Samuels for our joint jubilee learning.

Yey! Our three cacoons that fell off the lid have hatched first 🎉🎉🎉🎉

Risky play at Baltic outdoor adventure, funny pictures of Kim joining in on the fun 🤣 we climbed up narrow stair cases and ladders upto tree houses! We saw some guinea pigs, chickens, bunnies and ducks too.
We had pop corn that was made over an open fire, we watched how to make a fire and learnt to stay safe and stay back!

Unfortunately three of our cacoons have fallen off the lid, fingers crossed they still emerge 🤞🤞🤞🤞

School holidays over the next two weeks -

Schools are closed on Friday 27th May

Open again Monday 30th May, Tuesday 31st May and Wednesday 1st June.

Schools are closed again on Thursday 2nd and Friday 3rd June

Photos from Kim's Childcare, Glasgow Eastend Childminder's post

Lucy's blue day a firm favourite of ours.

Children love to play – and play is fundamental to making a difference to a child’s learning, wellbeing and development.

Childminders play a vital role in supporting the right to play, by providing fun, engaging and creative play experiences for children that enriches their overall development.

Scottish Childminding Association

Scottish Childminding Association

This week is

This year’s theme is loneliness and how it impacts on our

Loneliness affects millions of people across the UK. It’s important we know help is out there.

Find out about help and support ⬇

Reaching out can make a difference if you’re feeling lonely or isolated.

Get in touch with your family and friends to talk about how you feel.

Breathing Space, Samaritans British Red Cross are also here to listen:

☎️ Breathing Space 0800 83 85 87
☎️ Samaritans 24/7 on 116 123
☎️ British Red Cross 0808 196 3651

We’re funding support to meet the demand for mental health projects.

Our Communities Mental Health and Wellbeing Fund supports community groups and organisations to tackle isolation and loneliness.

More at https://bit.ly/CommunityMentalHealthFunding

Fire engine wow! Sensory play with gelli baff! Printing with sponges, stories, stories and more stories ❤️

Teamwork

Local beauty missing please check your garages and sheds ❤️

New dates for strikes in Nursery and primary.

Hi unfortunately Covid has taken down my house and I will be closed But looking to create some fun bits in the garden for the little ones return if anyone has any MDF/other wood sheets/old shelves that I can repurposed ❤️ please send a pm thank you xx

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Love palacerigg ❤️