A Bee C Childcare

Bubbles is always a fun favourite
April 2023

MESSY PLAY
Exploring gelly baff !
The children practiced scooping with spoons;
Demonstrated active learning, critical thinking,
Positioning schema and a transporting schema;
Discussed the colour;
Enjoyed the sensory experience of the cold, slippery gelli baff in their hands;
April 2023

TUMMY TIME
Physical development through sustained tummy time, reaching out and touching things that are near, developing hIS core strength
April 2023

SMALL WORLD
Pirate ship and the treasure
April 2023

WATER PLAY
Water - something happens when children engage with water. They seem drawn to it. It provides endless possibilities for play experiences.
This was a great opportunity to encourage turn taking, for the children to find the right receptacle for their purpose and resulted in pouring, filling, measuring and refilling. Maths language and skills were explored, social skills were developed and no worksheets in sight!!!!
April 2023

EXPLORING COLOURS
April 2023

ROCKING
Rocking is an excellent way of stimulating our vestibular system. Physically we can feel our body move whilst our visual senses adapt to the changing perspectives – paired together, our body starts to recognise and adjust to the rhythmic motion, and we begin to develop our sense of balance
April 2023

TUMMY TIME
From birth to 6+ months, tummy time builds the muscles babies need for crawling and walking.
April 2023

Building with megablocks
April 2023

BUILDING THE HIGHEST TOWER
Studies suggest that construction toys can help children develop
*motor skills and hand-eye coordination,
*spatial reasoning,
*cognitive flexibility,
*language skills,
*a capacity for creative, divergent thinking,
*social competence, and
*engineering skills.
There is also evidence that complex block-play is linked with higher mathematical achievement.
April 2023

EXPLORING MAGNETS
Magnetic and non magnetic
After a child posed the question “why does this not stick (to the magnet)” an invitation to explore magnets was set up. Lots of fun was had and words such as ‘attract’ ‘pull’ and magic were used. With some support he quickly worked out that some things stuck and some didn’t, and that if things were too heavy they wouldn’t stick. His face was a picture when the magnet worked through the table
April 2023

MAKING A WISHING STAR
Simple invitation and provocation based on children’s interests.
April 2023

MESSY PLAY
Reasons Why Messy Play Is Important and Benefits Children
It Fosters Curiosity, Imagination and Exploration.
It Encourages Communication and Language Development.
It Practices Good Concentration and Nurtures Future Skills.
It Promotes Physical Development.
It Supports the Ability to Play Independently.
April 2023

LEARNING NEW VOCABULARY
A little activity before home time. Learning new words and enjoying the crafts in the same time.
April 2023

A spontaneous child led moment !
The children love to care for and play with our pets in the setting giving them responsibility and positively contributing to their self confidence and self esteem.
April 2023

SECURE ATTACHEMENTS
The beauty of being a childminder… is building connections and secure attachments with my little bees.

"Children are miracles.

Believing that every child is a miracle can transform the way we design for children's care.
When we invite a miracle into our lives we prepare ourselves and the environment around us.
We may set out flowers or special offerings...
We make it our job to create, with reverence and gratitude,
a space that is worthy of a miracle! Action follows thought.
We can choose to change.
We can choose to design spaces for miracles, not minimums."

-Anita Rui Olds, 1999

Who needs a cleaner when your little one knows how to do it!
Let me introduce our new cleaner.
As of next weeek he will do 3 -4 hours each Friday morning. Payment - sweets
WIN -WIN
Hope it makes you smile as much as I did.
April 2023

COLOUR SORTING
Incorporating learning through play with this very simple colour sorting activity for toddlers! We used everything we had on hand and that our little one loves to play with!
April 2023

ALLOWING PROCESS PAINTING
Our favorite moments are when children explore the resources in their own way, creating and meeting their sensory needs, engaged, intent on new discoveries. This is when we see meaningful learning happening as these young minds expand their knowledge and gain new understanding about their creations. No expected product just a joyful process of creativity and being in the moment. By allowing time, opportunities and space for young minds they will flourish and develop.
April 2023

Belonging for young children is being in a place where they feel comfortable enough to play without having to look over their shoulders for approval - or dodging disapproval - to explore without fear, to redefine their space and to use materials found around them to create for themselves a sense of order, pattern and structure. -Bev Boss
Our new friend enjoying and having fun on his first day with us
April 2023

MARK MAKING
As well as mark-making opportunities, this helps our toddler develop his
Confidence to express himself creatively
Visual awareness and discrimination
Palmar grasp
Gross and fine motor skills generally
Hand-eye coordination
April 2023

3D PUZZLE
Age appropriate puzzles are a great and challenging activity.
Out little one works on fine motor development, he learns about shapes and sizes, but also he starts developing strategies for solving problems like trial and error and looking for clues on how the puzzle is organized.
Definitely one of his favourites
April 2023

MESSY PLAY
Scooping, Mixing and Pouring are some of the most effective ways to develop and refine fine motor skills during play. We used our coloured rice today filling and emptying different sized easter eggs creating an open ended sensory activity that everyone enjoyed!
April 2023

PENCIL CONTROL
Let them scribble .... it’s the pre-requisite to writing, as babbling is to talking
March 2023

PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT
This is what "learning through play" looked for our little toddller today.
He tried again and again until he mastered climbing in by himself.
lots of learning from - negotiating spaces, building muscles, developing motor skills, developing coordination, practice balance, promote cognitive development and much more.
Physical development is always really important and simply playing with push along toys can have such a big impact.
March 2023

WONDER
ℂ𝕙𝕚𝕝𝕕𝕣𝕖𝕟 𝕤𝕖𝕖 𝕞𝕒𝕘𝕚𝕔 𝕓𝕖𝕔𝕒𝕦𝕤𝕖 𝕥𝕙𝕖𝕪 𝕝𝕠𝕠𝕜 𝕗𝕠𝕣 𝕚𝕥” - Christopher Moore
March 2023

SAND AND DIGGERS
The boys were engrossed playing with the diggers exploring what they could do in the sand as well as out of the sand. They played together and individually with deep levels of engagement. They were given time and space to think about what they wanted to do with this play.
March 2023

SMALL WORLD
Choo Choo!
Some days its just about getting all the trains out
March 2023

CONSTRUCTION
Sometimes the super simple set ups are the best
This constrution tray kept the children entertained for ages practising that hand eye coordination and fine motor skills
March 2023

EXPLORING BABY CORNER
March 2023

BALL PIT
Our baby having had a lovely time exploring
March 2023

CHILD INITIATED PLAY
Deep involvement indicates brain activity and this happens most during high quality child initiated play. A lack of this severely limits possibilities for children to explore and communicate their own interests and ideas. It also restricts opportunities for children to engage in the sort of dialogue that can scaffold their understanding and knowledge of the world around them.
Mrs W took some loose parts from the messy tray activity and choose to use it on a different way.
March 2023

MESSY PLAY
The children enjoyed feeling the texture of the rice as they let it flow threw their fingers, counting how many eggs there are & making the shakers with rice and plastic easter eggs.
Scooping, Mixing and Pouring are some of the most effective ways to develop and refine fine motor skills during play. Children used
spoons for filling and emptying different sized and shaped containers with this open ended sensory activity that everyone enjoyed!
Early Years Adventures
March 2023

FINGER PAINTING
Finger Painting is an excellent tactile experience for children of all ages and the joy it brings and the creativity it sparks is worth the little bit of mess it makes!
The more colour...the better!
March 2023

READING
Is never to early to enjoy books
March 2023

PAINTING
Invitation to paint eggs or on paper with lots of opportunities to develop children’s knowledge, creativity, motor skills, language and understanding.
March 2023

SMALL WORLD
Small world play is a great way to develop imaginative skills.
March 2023

SENSORY TRAY
Shredded paper is such a great loose part. Our children enjoyed exploring the paper by climbing in it, throwing, transporting, filling and emptying pots with it and finding the treasures that were hidden within.
March 2023

PHYSICAL PLAY
Movement play links with all areas of development and is, in my opinion, the keystone to unlocking the potential within our bodies AND our brains.
March 2023

MESSY PLAY
Today the children have loved exploring the tray with coloured rice and seasonal coloured eggs . They have been using the half eggs to scoop up the rice and pouring them out again & giggling at the sound.
We also sang some nursery rhymes whilst the children where playing and they enjoyed joining in
This activity encourages the children to use :
Gross and fine motor skills when using the shells to pour and scoop
We have kept their interest which sparks curiosity
Communication and language
Sensory play
Social skills as they play alongside other children
March 2023