Amanda’s Little Adventurers

We never stop studying/developing/reflecting so we can be the best childminders for our little adventurers.

Very proud of this achievement! ☺️

We must be doing something right, this is the third ‘thank you’ this week. ☺️🥰

Lovely to know our little adventurer’s parents are so happy.

We’ve been enjoying lots of Autumn crafts, baking and some new books. 🥧🍁🦊🐿️

The perfect time of year to snuggle up in our cosy book corner and read a book together. 📚

Our Gruffalo window display is coming along very nicely.

Always a favourite book with our little adventurers. 📚

Thank you Mark! 🦉🦊🐍🐭🪵🌳🤎🧡

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For anyone claiming the 15 hours funded childcare from September 2024 for their child.
You need to have applied and have your code by 31/08/2024 or you won’t get and funding until January 2025.

‼️Don’t miss out, apply for your code through childcare choices ‼️

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***Dad's Go FREE***
SUNDAY 16th JUNE
We invite all dad's, granddad's, stepdads to come to the farm for FREE this Sunday, to say Thank you for all you do in raising the next generation.

🌈 Our little adventurers health and wellbeing is hugely important to us here. 🌈

We will be covering these different topics over the next few weeks at circle time, plus having fun activities to help our children learn how to stay healthy.

The topics are listed below. ⬇️

Oral Hygiene 🦷🪥
Childrens mental health 🥰
Internet safety 🛜
Food safety 🦠
Nutrition 🍉🍓🍏
Sensory food education 🍝

We are starting with Oral Hygiene. 🪥🦷

We have purchased toothpaste, toothbrushes (age appropriate) and a hygienic toothbrush holder and we will be having 10 minutes at 2pm everyday to brush our teeth together.
We will use the super simple song about brushing our teeth to time the 2 minutes brushing time needed.
We are sure this will embed good oral hygiene in our little adventurers from an early age. 😬🪥

Happy World Bee Day 2024 🐝💛🍯

We have lots of bee themed activities and crafts for the little adventurers this week and we will also be trying honey at our snack time.

Bees are our friends.

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📣Polite notice📣

If your child is entitled to any of the 15 hours or 30 hours childcare funding, this doesn’t guarantee you a place here.
We’ve already taken on all the children we can for September 24. We also have a waiting list.
We are only allowed a limited number of places per childminding setting or it becomes unsafe. It’s not legal to go above this number!

It’s not helpful to be rude to us or insist we will be taking your child. ☹️
Take this up with the government who have oversubscribed this new funding and not made sure there are enough childcare places.

It’s estimated there will be at least a 50,000 shortfall for childcare places needed from September 24.

We work really hard to try to offer as many good quality childcare places as we are allowed and this just makes us sad that parents think we are just saying no, for no reason.

We are full at the moment and as soon as any places become available we will advertise on here. ☺️

I hope everyone understands now.

Have a lovely Sunday. 🥰

From today, eligible parents of children who will be 9 months old by 31st August 2024 can apply for 15 hours of childcare a week 👶

Here's how to check your eligibility and apply 👇

https://www.childcarechoices.gov.uk/

Todays project.

A big gazebo to keep our little adventurers safe in the sun.
We can have outdoor play now, all day long! 🤩🌞🥰

📣FUNDING FOR 9 MONTHS-2 YEARS 📣

Are you a working parent with a child from 9 months to 23 months before 31 August 2024?

Applications for the 15 hours of early education funded childcare for September 2024 open on Sunday 12 May 2024, so make sure to mark this date on your calendar! 📅

To find out more about the eligibility criteria, how to apply and register for updates visit www.childcarechoices.gov.uk.

Childcare Choices from GOV.UK All about Government help with childcare costs, including 15 to 30 hours free childcare, Tax-Free Childcare, tax credits, Universal Credit, vouchers and support while you study

Our new artificial grass has been laid in the outdoor play area. 🙂

We love it. 💚

We’ve just purchased 2 LifeVac travel kits for our setting. One for each of us.

When we did our last paediatric first aid training, we were shown this LifeVac anti choking device.
Both Mark and myself thought they would be a great addition to our first aid kits and give us piece of mind in case of a choking emergency where the normal interventions don’t work.

You can google LifeVac if you’d like to know more. 🙂

We’re all very excited about our Nunny’s Farm Childminders Annual Pass! 🐷🐄🐔

The Little Adventurers will now be having weekly visits to our lovely community farm.

The farm provides so many exciting learning opportunities and experiences for ALL children, right on our doorstep and is a fantastic place to visit.

We can’t wait! Our weekly outings to the farm will start from next week! W/C 15/04/24
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Summer term planning is looking very exciting! 🐣🐛🍓🌿

Our themes for next term are
Growth, being independent, managing our feelings and making healthy choices.

We have lots of amazing activities and outings planned for the little adventurers, including…….

Learning all about where our food comes from and growing our own vegetables and fruit. Planting seeds and looking after our plants we grow. 🌱🫛🍓

Observing the life cycle of a butterfly.
We have some wriggly caterpillars and the little adventurers will be able to watch them grow and change in our butterfly garden, then we will release our butterflies into nature when they’re grown. 🐛 🦋

Hatching our very own chicks! 🐣🐣🐣
Our eggs and incubator arrives in June and the little adventurers will have the amazing experience of learning all about what happens to the eggs and watching our chicks hatch and also caring for them afterwards. 🐣

We will also be having some sports sessions for the little adventurers on the field next to Wybers park and we will be learning how important exercise is for our bodies.
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We welcome Mark to the little adventurers full time from April 15th. 🎉
The children already know Mark and are all very happy he's going to be with us full time.
Mark is very excited to be working with us and has lots of amazing ideas planned for the little adventurers…… watch this space. ☺️

We hope you’re all having a lovely Easter break and we will see you very soon. ☺️😁