Angela's House, Childminding a Home from Home

Happy Christmas 🎄to all the lovely families Old and New! Thank you again for choosing me to look after your precious little ones. I hope you have a wonderful Christmas and fabulous New Year.
Love from Angela and my Girls. Xx

Aww look at these 2 latest gorgeous reviews! Makes my heart so happy to know that we make a difference here at Angela's house! Xx

Don't forget to apply everyone. Xx

we have just sent over 100 reminders to parents via email, reminding you to apply for your two year funding. If you have a child that turns 2 before 01/01/2023 your child could be missing out on having fun with firends for 15 hours every week (Term Time) so if you have received an email, or think you may be eligible, please send an application at your earliest opportunity, if your circumstances change you may lose eligibility.
https://www.nelincs.gov.uk/children-families-and-schools/childcare-and-funding/two-year-old-funding/

Still some Availability at Angela's house 🏠

Our little setting would love to welcome some new friends to join our little family. There are some up dated pics posted for you all to see what fun we have, as i now use a private page for current parents. # # #

⌛️⌛️⌛️⌛️⌛️TIME IS RUNNING OUT TO APPLY ⌛️⌛️⌛️⌛️⌛️
If you are a working family with a child that turns 3 years old on or before 31/08/2022 or a 4 Year old, and you would like to take up 30 hours funding in September 2022, it is time to apply for the funding now ready for the Autumn Term, to find out more or to apply please follow the link www.childcarechoices.gov.uk

There is some space available at Angela's House, please do get in touch if you would like any further information.

Our little setting would love to welcome some new friends to join our little family. There are some up dated pics posted for you all to see what fun we have, as i now use a private page for current parents. Xx

Hey everyone, since having a private page I don't post our learning on here, but Angela's house is still very much full of learning and fun, in my home from home environment.

We have done some baking/cooking, we have been on setting trips to the park, beach and this year we even went to the farm and Hubbard Hills.
The children always love our sensory trays to extend and re-enforce our learning. The children especially loved the butterfly 🦋 life cycle we observed this summer term. A community dental nurse came to see us to talk about how to keep our teeth heathly too. The children were really engaged and we carried the learning on at home.

These are just a few pics of all our learning the past few months.

Love Angela. Xx

2 years ago today, Angela's House officially opened its doors, to a lovely little boy and my little journey began!

I have loved these past 2 years and I want to thank, each and every family I have worked with. You have all been fantastic! And most of all thank you for choosing me, to take care of your precious little ones!

Lots of love Angela! Xx

Today was all about red!

We had a red sensory tray, we made a yummy red pizza and we had red fruit for pudding. We also made some red(well pink hehe)biscuits for a treat!

I love cooking and baking with the children because touches on so many areas of learning. It requires hands on use of a variety of maths concepts, including weight and measurement, we use mathematical language like more less ext. We did stirring, rolling, squeezing and spreading to develop their fine motor and hand-eye coordination skills. Cooking and baking also offers a great opportunity to help with language development as well, though talking and describing what we did. The children described what they were doing, what they could see, smell and how the different ingredients felt etc.
It was even unknowingly a science lesson 🥰. The little loves watched the materials change colour, texture and form ❤

It was such a lovely day with 2 of my little friends. Xx

One of our little friends is moving house, so we now have a day space available to join Angela's House. Xx

Our friends did great making pancakes!!

😋😋 we're going to have lots of fun making these..... xx

Photos from Families First's post

Do you have a child that is two years old before, or on 31st March 2022? You could be entitled to 15 hours free term time childcare per week. To find out more, or to apply, please click on the link below. Or Call 01472 326292 (option 1) during normal working hours. If you are unsure then please apply anyway
https://www.nelincs.gov.uk/.../chil.../two-year-old-funding/

If you are a working family with a 3 or 4 Year old and you would like to take up 30 hours funding in April it is time to apply for the funding now ready for the Summer Term, to find out more or to apply please follow the link www.childcarechoices.gov.uk

As we approach the final week of February this is just some of the learning the children have enjoyed.

We learnt about Chinese new year and Tigers because its the year of the tiger 🐅. We made tiger stripes with tangerines, yellow, red and black paint, a tiger came to tea. We explored some noodles and explored using chop sicks and tweezers. We have been working on our independence, we had a week all about love and talked about what means to us, who we love and how we feel. We have been out exploring and saw some nests. One week or childminding group was all about physical play the children absolutely loved that. Finally before the weather got too bad we got wrapped up warm and went outdoors, the wind blowing is a lovely sensory experience for children, we went in the trees to listen to the sounds of the wind blowing and to see affects of the wind on the trees we also popped to see the ducks the children loved this little outing. Xx

We now have a more personal page just for parents, but I will occasionally pop some pics on to show you what we get upto.

This is some of the fun we had at the end of Jan.

We have been learning about the weather, all things cold and working on our fine motor skills. The children did a lovely activity on winter clothes with very little help. Getting creative helps little ones develop their imagination and helps to improve their communication and listening skills, as well as their ability to pay attention being improved. We have done some baking, lots of sensory play and we did a fabulous ice activity 🧊 where lots of areas of learning were linked. Xx

Tax-Free Childcare is a UK wide offer. Eligible parents with children under 12 can get up to £2,000 per child, per year, towards their childcare costs (or up to £4,000 for disabled children under 17). www.childcarechoices.gov.uk

We've had quite a few enquiries from Parents and Carers wanting to apply for 15 hours early education funding for their 3/4 year olds. You do not need to apply for this as All 3 and 4 year olds are entitled to 15 hours per week. However, if you and or your Partner work 16 or more hours a week You may be entitled to 30 Hours funding per week. You need to apply for this the term before you wish to use it. For More information please follow the link below.

https://www.nelincs.gov.uk/children-families-and-schools/childcare-and-funding/three-and-four-year-old-funding/

This week we have enjoyed having everyone back together and have done some lovely things....
We went on a listening walk and stopped off to see the ducks we counted them and sang mummy duck.
On our walk into the community we lots lost of people and lots of dogs 🐕 we talked about how big and small they were and other differences. We could hear the cars, children playing, a helicopter and even an ambulance. We then had a little play on the park.
We have been to soft play to do some climbing and lots of physical play. The children are getting so brave and push themselves through problem solving and critical thinking.
We went back to our group on Wednesday, the children enjoyed all the different activities,
We have made a role play shop, we made sure we said please and thankyou and payed for our things.
During soom free play it's was lovely to see one of our friends pretending to be her mummy she said "i am mummy washing the pots", Finally today we played "whats in the bag" the children are brilliant at describing what they have picked out and what they are for or do.

Hope you all have a lovely weekend love Angela xx

Hello, hope your all well. We have been so busy since coming back from Christmas! This is what we have been upto this and last week.

At group time we sat at talked about our time away and what we had been upto. The children were exticited to talk about Father Christmas and what he had brought them.

We did a lovely creative activity, we looked in the mirror 🪞 and then drew a picture of our selves...we talked about eyes, lips nose ect and how we are all different but still beautiful. One friend said "I have curly hair, but you dont"

We have been working on sharing and working as a team. So the children worked together to construct some towers, they worked out if someone holds it you can make it taller.

We have done some colour sorting and counting. Our youngest friend enjoyed feeling the sand and the sensory experience. There has been lots of role play, which the children love so much at the minute. Xx

As Angela's house closes for Christmas, I would like to take the time to thank all of the parents past and present, for choosing me to take care of your precious little ones. I am so lucky to work with lovely families who are so kind and supportive.

This year has been our first full year, so I would also like to thank everyone who has helped me promote my little setting, it really has meant so much to me and I am so greatful.
Let's hope we can all have a better new year without any disruption from the pandemic it seems to trying to at the minute.

All at Angela's house, hope you have a wonderful Christmas and a very happy New Year.... see you all on the 5th of January 2021.

Lots and love Angela # # #

The children worked so hard on their calenders and cards look how cute they are 😍 xx

On Friday we had a baking day! We looked at the book the gingerbread man and then made our own, our little friend was very independent and was able to do everything with very little support! Well done! Then we also read the book stick man! ....a fave Christmas book of mine so for a chocolatety treat we made stick man! Xx

Here are some pics of the last few days at Angela's House, we had 2 parties and 2 Xmas dinners and did lots of Christmas craft and activities. Xx

Hello everyone!! 🥰 Well after the unexpected closure this week we are now all well! Yey!! I have missed you all so much.

Next week we will be having our Christmas Parties and Christmas Dinner.🎄🎅🏻🎁 😁😁🎄

There will be a Party on Monday 13th and Thursday 16th and Christmas Dinner on the Monday and Thursday too, so every little one gets to celebrate.

I will close for Christmas at 5pm Tuesday 21st December for 10days Annual leave and reopen Wednesday 5th January.

Hope you all have a fabulous weekend and see you all Monday!! 😁😁 xx

Awww how cute are these though! Xx

I had planned to go to the woods today but the weather made us re-think so insted we went to see the ducks with our clover, he was just as much fun as looking for squirrels hehe.
We pretended to cut up cake today, we counted how many pieces there was and how many we had? Who has more? We also talked about how we must hold it safely like when we use them at lunch time. 😄

I will put a post up next week with dates for our Christmas Dinner and Christmas parties....there will be 2x to make sure all the children get one 😀 😍
We will also be participating in Christmas jumper day for save the children charity, so I will put the date up for that too.

Hope you all have a fabulous weekend! See you next week for all the creative festivities to start 😍.

love Angela xx

This is what we have been upto this week. Tuesday was especially lovely I was so proud of one of our friends he doesn't normally like sensory play but loves cars so I thought I would combine the two and he loved it! The cars were great for Mark making through the lentals, yellow peas and rice. We have been to our group to see our friends again. Another lovely moment was when two of our friends were playing together and it was like a mini me she was singing our welcome and weather song, asking how her friend felt and if she had news then she said story time and started reading 😆. Xx

Not many pics today my phone won't take any more so I need to sort that at the weekend. 🤦🏽‍♀️.

We had lots of fun with yellow playdoh and coloured spots, we made a Pudsey Biscuit and made spotty gluing and sticking like his bandage. We also celebrated "The wheels on the bus" and "Old mc Donald" for the last day of Nursery Rhyme week.

There was only 3 friends here today but we still managed to donate £8 for children in need which we will round to £10.

Hope you all have a fabulous weekend 😀
Love from Angela xx

We're loving being in our Pj's 😁 xx

Today we met our other friends and had a physical play session. They had a great time at soft play and the children get braver and braver every week! Our newest friend enjoyed exploring and crawing around the new environment. We also concentrated on the nursery rhyme "1,2,3,4,5" 🐟 while out we saw a beautiful cat tge children loved watching him/her xx

Wednesday we celebrated "3 little monkeys jumping on the bed"🐒 🙈 🙊 and 5 little ducks 🦆🦆🦆🦆🦆. The children absolutely love 3 little monkeys it's the one they all choose. So we had to do this one! They loved the masks that Scott made for us! After role playing, we then talked about monkeys, where they live? what colour they are? What we think they might eat? And we read my fav story monkey puzzle!! We also got out doors and went to see the ducks we sang to them and fed them some bird food, (although I think they liked somebody else's bread more hehe) and talked about their differences. Finally we turned the sensory tray in to a pond and the children did some colour sorting and counting. What a busy fun day of learning that was! Xx

On Tuesday we celebrated twinkle twinkle and Miss Polly. The children enjoyed making a star and we dressed as Dr's, a mummy and made the dolly better.. we also worked on our fine motor skills counting with the cotton reals threading xx

Today we have been celebrating Incy Wincy spider and wind the bobbin up. We made some spider prints and drew spiders 🕷 🕷 on the chalk boards. We talked about how many legs and what they might eat. We watched a little video about spiders and learnt that some make a web and some don't. The ones who don't have to run fast for their food. The children found it funny when it said they carry their babies in a bag near their bottom. Our youngest friend said we carry babies in our arm not our bum 😀. We also used brilliant fine motor skills and wound wool around a paper bobbin. We took turns to picking other songs out of a nursery rhyme bag too. Xx

This week is world Nursery Rhyme week! So we will be celebrating a different one each day. 😍😀. Xx

Just like the local school, on Friday 19th Nov the children can come to Angela's House in their pjs and give a small donation to such a lovely cause.....My daughters asked will I be taking them school in mine and 🤦🏽‍♀️ of cause I had to agree hehe. Xx

Happy 2nd Birthday to our lovely friend! Hope you have a wonderful day, and we will see you tomorrow little one. Xx