Diane Copeland Childminding

What a beautiful day to explore nature and have a picnic. We have been watching the busy bees going to the flowers then in to bee hives. We have explored sounds in the sound area.
Exploring Nature helps nurture our curiosity and helps our communication. It also helps our physical coordination as we walk, climb, bend and explore different things we see. Being in Nature is also good for our overall wellbeing as it makes us feel calm and happy.

We have had a fab morning celebrating Diane's Birthday. The older children helped Becky make a Birthday cake, measuring out the ingredients, helping to mix it and helping to put on the frosting. We sang happy birthday before having a slice it was very yummy.

We found lots of bluebells in the woods. We looked at their shape and talked about how we can only find them in spring. We talked about other things that happen in spring and compared how the woods look now to how they looked in winter. We talked about how delicate the bluebells are and saw that they only grew where people don't walk, we talked about how it was really important not to stand on them or pick them. We talked about different words we could use to describe the bluebells, deciding that beautiful, amazing, wonderful, pretty nice and magical were the best words to use. We thought about how seeing the blue bells and being in the woods made us feel. We said we felt happy and calm, we then decided that nature is pretty amazing.

Lovely spring walk

Easter Egg hunting

Today we have been celebrating hungry Caterpillar Day. Eric Carle’s iconic book delivers a holistic, engaging learning across multiple development areas.
We listened to story, we then used props to retelling the story. We counted all the different foods the caterpillar ate, and talked about the days of the week. We talked about the life cycle of a butterfly. We discussed healthy eating choices versus unhealthy choices as the caterpillar experiences a stomach ache after eating too much junk food. We made our own butterfly and caterpillar pictures.

Happy Mothers Day

Exploring the show gardens

We have had a problem to solve today. Last night some of our penguins decided to go out play in the snow, but it was so cold that they got froze in the ice. It was our job to rescue them. We decided to use little hammers to try and break the penguin free from the ice, we then tried using the pipettes and some warm water to melt the ice. After lots of hard work we managed to free them all.

As we close our doors for the Christmas break, we wanted to share how busy we have been in the lead up to Santa coming.
We hope everyone has a good Christmas and see you all in the New Year.