Monkston Park Childminding

A group of wonderful childminders and myself have organised to join up to raise money for Barnardos Charity by signing up for The Big Toddle.
We will be doing our sponsored Toddle on Thursday 11th June at Willen Lake at 10.30 am.
We have a joint Just Giving page and this is our
Link. https://www.justgiving.com/page/melanie-miller-1?utm_medium=FR&utm_source=CL

Feel free to help us raise lots of money for this amazing charity.

We're taking part in The Big Toddle 2026 Help Melanie Miller raise money to support Barnardo's

A very interesting little video about starting childcare and illness.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DWEOnnUCAcs/?igsh=NHoxc25udWdyM3Zi

This paper was a super cool read! Young children have immature immune systems, put everything in their mouths and lick each others faces! This combined with many viruses being infectious before you have any symptoms and potentially for a long time after recovery means these infections are hard to control. But these repeated exposures probably mean less frequent illness by the time they reach school age. Let me know your thoughts and questions! https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/cmr.00253-25

A little update of recent activities. It’s been a while since I posted, but we’ve still been busy crafting, playing and learning.

Little update of a few photos of things we’ve been doing.

Summer Fun!
We seem to have been blessed with some lovely weather this year. Here’s some photos.

A little update. We’ve been busy, running jumping and taking part in toddler sports day and going to splash parks on lovely summer days.

A highlight for us this week was a lovely educational visit from the police. The children could see and touch all the policing equipment and we spoke about people that can help us and concentrated on the number 9! He’s some pics.

Few pics of our adventures. Nature is a wonderful playground, the children just love a muddy puddle.

A little photo update of recent activities.

We’ve had some recent exciting news! We’ve got butterflies!

Our new learning is all about the life cycle of a butterfly 🦋.

We’ve been ensuring we are gentle and respectful to our caterpillars and we’ve ensured they are safe, quiet and have lots of food. This allowed the amazing metamorphosis to take place in front of our very eyes.