Rebecca Currall Childminding

09/10/2026

Following on with our space theme we had the pleasure to visit a new space themed local soft play called Little NASA ! What fun we had pretending to be astronauts and bringing our learning to life through play. This supports their communication and language, creativity, teamwork and personal, social and emotional development, while encouraging them to use their imagination. 🪐

09/10/2026

World Space Week 🚀
We started this week talking about space and discovering new vocabulary such as astronaut, asteroid, earth , planets and many many more!

Then children then worked collaboratively to create a large rocket ship featuring a pink door. They shared their ideas and suggestions for the design, and every child’s contribution was valued and incorporated into the final creation. This was a wonderful opportunity for the children to develop their communication, teamwork, creativity and problem-solving skills while working together towards a shared goal. This resulted in this lovely space rocket! We talked about what the astronauts would need in the ship to live and discussed gravity, weightlessness and atmosphere in space! We then fashioned our own personal rockets to take home 🚀

08/10/2026

I don’t think people realise how attached childminders get to the children we care for.

We know which cry means they’re hurt and which one means they’re mad.

We notice when they’re quieter than usual.

We celebrate the new words, the first steps, the successful potty trips, and the days they finally eat the food they’ve refused 47 times. 😂

We know when they need an extra hug before they even ask for one.

And somewhere between wiping noses, changing diapers, breaking up toddler arguments, and singing the same song for the 900th time…

They become OUR babies too. 🥹

Then one day they move classrooms, start school, or leave altogether, and we’re just expected to act like a tiny person we spent almost every day loving didn’t take a little piece of our heart with them.

Childcare is a job.

But loving these babies has never felt like “just a job.” ❤️

02/10/2026

Harvest Festival Celebration 🌽

We have had a wonderful time celebrating Harvest Festival! 🍂

The children enjoyed making colourful vegetable prints in the woods, exploring different shapes, textures and patterns. We talked about farmers and how they grow the crops that provide us with our food. We introduced new vocabulary, including ‘field’ and ‘sow’, helping the children to develop their understanding of where our food comes from. We had a farmers field messy play which again introduced us to how the names of the vegetables looked in written form and cleaned the vegetables we had used to make the prints. This avoided food waste as we were then able to feed it to our chicken 🐓

We also enjoyed a visit to The Green Patch where we explored the vegetable patches and observed the different crops growing. The children were excited to see how vegetables are grown and were able to make links between what we had been learning and what we saw around us.

Thanks to the generous donations from our wonderful families, we were able to put together some Harvest Festival goodies to donate to the food bank , helping to support people and families in our local community who may be less fortunate than ourselves. ❤️

This experience helped the children to understand the importance of kindness, sharing and helping others, while also developing their understanding of where our food comes from and the people who help to grow it.

A big thank you to all our families for your generosity and support! 🌻

29/09/2026

Hey! We are collecting food goods as part of our Harvest Festival and would appreciate any in date tinned/ sealed food items for our collection . We will be taking them to The Green Patch on Thursday x Please have a look to see if you have anything in your cupboards you may not need anymore to donate . Any donations appreciated as I understand the cost of living is at a high xx

26/09/2026

26/09/2026

All about me 🥰
We set up a street activity which included picture of the children on blocks and pictures of their houses on boxes. We then asked each child to walk themself to their house . They then continued with the play using the cars and houses and engaged in role play . We asked the older ones in the setting some questions about themselves . We made happy faces with the pancakes, fruit and cream and then devoured them 😋The little ones loved to look at themselves in the big mirror 🪞 👶

25/09/2026

Last week was Recycle Week . We read books about the important of recycling and not leaving litter on the beach . We put some clothes we no longer needed in the local clothes recycling bin . We discussed what happens to items that we recycle. We also recycled some tin cans by making them into our own windchimes 🌬️🎐🥫This activity helps children learn about recycling, while developing their creativity and fine motor skills and they threaded the string through the holes and nuts 🔩

23/09/2026

Lovely sunny day to wicksteed park 🌞 feeding the birds 🦢 🦆