Amanda’s Little Adventurers

🎄🎁CHRISTMAS PRESENT APPEAL🎁🎄

We are collecting toys for children and other gifts for teenage children this year again.
We managed to help lots of families last year from the amazing donations from everyone.
We donated 10 presents, headphones, hair straighteners, speakers, toys etc.

If you have a (NEW) gift you think would be suitable, please can you drop it off with me before December 2nd. Then I’ll take them all to CARE, ready to be given out for Christmas.

If you need ideas as what to buy/donate, please message me.

Some of the families that CARE help, won’t get any other presents this year, so let’s help bring some Christmas joy into the lives of these local children and families.

Thank you in advance.

Amanda and all the little adventurers 🎁🎅🏼

‼️Help needed‼️

One of our topics this term is - Helping people.

The little adventurers have been talking about why sometimes people need help and who we can help this month. We are collecting food donations to take to one of our local food banks at Sidedoor church.
Their stocks are running very low and they have alot of families who depend on them.

If any parents could possibly donate any tinned food/pasta etc, this will be greatly received. We will take this to them next week.

The little adventurers are excited to be able to help. 🙂🙂

We’ve all enjoyed a trip to Nunnys farm today.
Such a lovely place for the little adventurers to visit and learn all about the different animals up close.
Thank you for having us. 🙂🥰
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Whether you’re listening to the birds, feeling the breeze on your skin or watching the sun filter through the trees, there’s no end to the benefits of nature.

Spending time in nature can reduce anxiety, lift your mood and improve wellbeing, so head outdoors to find a moment of peace this .

Photo: A view from the summit at dawn on the Golden Cap Estate, Dorset.

We’ve had lots of fun talking about Autumn.
What happens to the leaves and trees, 🍂🧡
the beautiful colours, farmers and harvest time, the different animals that hibernate and making pumpkin soup! 🎃

We are so lucky to have such beautiful parks and beaches to explore and we’ve made the most of these and the gorgeous weather over the last few weeks. Some great outdoor adventures!

Our Autumn exploration table has been a big hit today, leaves, feathers, pine cones, acorns, we talked about what was hard and soft.

As it’s Mental Health Awareness day, we also talked about what makes us happy and sad, we looked at our happy and sad faces in a mirror, we talked about the things we can do to make our friends smile and that it’s ok to want to be on your own and have peace and quiet sometimes. ☺️

Our classroom has no walls,
They are not needed to engage & learn.

This is everything we need……………………. fresh air, warm clothes, exercise, friends, outdoor spaces, natural resources = lots of happy, playing, curious, learning, free range children. ☺️
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Happy birthday to us! 🌈🥳🎂

I’ve been childminding 15 years today. 😍🎉
I’ve had so many amazing children through my doors, it’s been a pleasure watching them all learn, thrive & grow here.
I couldn’t think of any other job I’d love as much as this.
I do feel truly blessed to wake up happy and enjoy my job everyday.

Thank you to all my lovely families, past and present for trusting in me with their precious little humans.
I’ve loved every minute. 🥰

Here’s to 15 more happy years of Amanda’s Little Adventurers🌈🍄🐞💦

One of our friends Tallulah is in the final few.
If you have the time could any of my little adventurer families click on The Paintbox post and vote for her please.

Much appreciated.

Tallulah is the baby girl. I’ll put her photo in the comments below.

Thank you everyone. 🥰🥰
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The little adventurers love our Royal family display. We’ve been talking about our new King today. The little as adventurers remembered he was called Charles.

Thank you to Sally’s Creations. 🇬🇧 🥰 👑

We found the blue tree 🌳💙




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We all enjoyed our local walk to feed the ducks this morning. 🦆

We spotted ducks, pigeons & magpies 😊

Our Turtle Bus is all ready for Autumn/Winter now with the new raincover. 🍂🍁💦☔️💨

The little adventurers will be all cosy and dry on the school runs now 🌧☺️

The little adventurers enjoyed a walk to our local pet shop to buy some fish food for our fish. We enjoyed seeing all the tortoises, rabbits and fish.

We were very quiet when we got home and fed our fish so we didn’t scare them. 🤫

Lots of great counting today. 1️⃣2️⃣3️⃣4️⃣5️⃣

Well done everyone 🐟☺️

Good morning.

After the sad news of the passing of our lovely Queen on Thursday, we will be doing lots of activities this week about The Queen, celebrating her life and the Royal family.

We are all making some thinking of you at this sad time cards to send to Buckingham Palace.

At times like these, children have lots of questions about people passing away and where are they now, we will be reading some age appropriate books about passing away and having some gentle conversations on the subject.

Everything will be age appropriate to try to help everyone have a little more understanding of what has happened.

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‼️15 hour funded place has become available today.‼️

We can take 2 or 3 year olds.
Please message for details. Immediate start available. 🙂🌈🐞

Todays the day. 📚🌈

Good luck to all my little adventurers starting big school today. I know you’re all going to be amazing and I’m so proud of you all.

Enjoy your first day. 🙂 x

Everyday 🪵🐞☘️🍁🐚🪨☺️

📚Read 5 books everyday📚

We all enjoyed one of our favourite books after lunch. The Gruffalo.

We read 5 books everyday here at Amanda’s little adventurers, the same 5 books for one week, then we change the books the week after to 5 different books.

This way the children get to really know the books, they get to know the story and the actions, they can start to tell you what happens next.
We all enjoy books and reading so much.

The little adventurers always help choose our 5 books for the week. 📚

Our 5 books this week are………

The Gruffalo
The snail and the whale
5 little pumpkins
Dear zoo
Oola the owl

‼️Update on spaces available‼️

We are totally full now until September 2023, then spaces will be very limited. 🐞🌈

Our new uniforms have been delivered.

I’ll send all your orders home with your little adventurer this week 🐞🌈

Next uniform order will be going through in October. 😊

We’ve all enjoyed a nature treasure hunt this morning, we found feathers, pine cones, acorns, sticks that looked like stick man and some beautiful flowers. One little adventurer spotted a rainbow and told us this was from “sunny and raindrops from the fountain”
We used our numbers 1-10 and counted lots of different trees.

We spotted swans. One little adventurer remembered that a baby swan is called a signet. They are growing so much now. We fed the swans and ducks some grains. 🦆

We all had fun with our friends using the large play equipment at the park, lots of sliding, running, jumping, swinging, climbing and taking turns. Well done everyone.

Getting ready for our end of term/leavers party tomorrow for our big adventurers going onto big school.

These just made me cry. 🥺☺️

So so super proud of each and every one of my little adventurers! 😭🥰😂 x

We all really enjoyed our sports day this morning with our friends from Natasha’s little learners childminding service 👏🏼😃

The children took part in sack races, egg and spoon, bean bag races, welly throwing, running races and throwing bean bags the furthest.

Well done everyone! You all did great 👏🏼💗

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We are completely full now for the summer holidays.
No spaces available.
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The scarecrows are all ready, they’re just after the level crossing and opposite the turning for Newbury Avenue.

The little adventurers all worked really hard making these, I’m so proud!

You can collect your voting forms from Great Coates village hall from 11am today. 🙏🏼🙂

Please go along and have a look at all the fantastic scarecrows. (And give us a vote please) 😁

Thank you and enjoy the scarecrows 😁💗💙

We’ve all had the best morning at our childminders group this morning.

We made clay faces and added lots of natural resources. This was so much fun! 😄😄

We all love seeing our friends from lots of other childminders on a Thursday. 😍
Natasha’s little learners childminding service

👑 Queens Platinum Jubilee Party 👑

❤️🤍💙We are joining with other local childminders to celebrate the Queens Jubilee.

Our party is at Great Coates village hall on Thursday 26th of May 2022. Children can come dressed in red, white and blue.

We’re having a buffet, games, crafts, surprises and lots more fun. ❤️🤍💙

Some of todays adventures 😄

The little adventurers had lots of fun den building with lots of natural resources this morning at our childminding group.

They all helped with this activity and worked together to make some amazing dens. After they’d built the dens, they had a tea party in them and listened to a story.

Well done everyone. 😁

We loved our walk round the woods in the rain today.

There’s no such thing as bad weather, only bad clothing. We made sure we all had our waterproofs on and warm hats.

The little adventurers saw squirrels, spiders, ladybirds and caterpillars 🐛 one noticed the blossom that had fallen on the grass and said “it’s been snowing Manda”

One of the fields were covered in dandelions so the little adventurers had so much fun picking the dandelion clocks and making lots of dandelion wishes.

What a great morning 🙂☘️🌲🌳🐛🐾🐿🪵

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No spaces left in half term.
W/C May 30th.
We are now full everyday.
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We hope everyone is enjoying their Bank Holiday weekend.

We are closed tomorrow - BH Monday.

Open again on Tuesday.

See everyone then 😊😊

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The little adventurers had a great game of football at our childminders group this morning. ⚽️🏃🏻‍♂️

We love Thursdays and seeing all of our friends from different childminders settings. 🥰

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Sunday May 1st. 12-6pm 🙂