Cherubs Childcare Hadley

Making mud faces today

Happy Mother’s Day 💐 to all of our CCH parents.
The children have been busy this week making gifts 🎁

With Mother’s Day approaching the children used loose parts to make their mums today. We used the children’s 🏡 home and family photos to encourage talking about home and their families.

Constructing den’s with our new magnetic building tiles.

We love snowy days at CCH ❄️⛄️🛷

Day 2 of February holidays
We celebrated Pancake 🥞 day.
We read Mr wolfs pancakes encouraging to understand about others feelings and working as a team to make them.
The children worked as a team in groups sharing so well and helping each other. We talked about safety when using the electric mix and cooking own pancakes.
Lots of independent skills used.
The children then role played with dough and ingredients in the garden.

Day one of February half term holidays

Water💧 play to encourage maths skills and language.
I encourage the children to make the containers full, empty and half full.

The children used problem solving to work out how to scoop and fill different size containers. They role played making drinks, soup and food while learning to whisk and pour with control.

We tried to fill the scales to see if we could make one side heavier then the other.

Valentines 💝 2023
We read love makes a family story before making gifts to our loved ones.
We encouraged discussions about what the children’s families do to show them that they are loved like in the story.

ATTENTION!
Does your child/children receive benefit related free school meals or have SEN needs and are in reception up to year 11 ?
If yes do you know that your child can access free holiday childcare/club in the Easter, Summer and Christmas holidays.
For more info go to
hhah.telford.gov.uk
http://hhah.telford.gov.uk
I will hopefully be offering places at my setting so please feel free to contact me to reserve a place.
Here is a selection of activities we normally do in the holidays :
-Day trips out to places like Area 51, soft play, museums, farms, zoo, crocky trail, the beach, cinema, swimming and much more.
-lots of physical activities like football, basket ball, obstacle courses, riding bikes and scooters and lots of play in the large garden and mud kitchen area we have.
-sand, water and experiments with messy play
-Learning about healthy eating, how to cook and bake delicious 😋 foods.
-walks and visits to local parks, woods and national trust places
-your child will get a healthy meal and snacks
Any questions about Happy healthy active holidays please feel free to contact me 😃

We are based in Dawley bank/Lawley

The children where so excited to be bk at gymnastics this week and to be matching in there Christmas gift outfits 😍
Also made it supper easy for me to spot them 🤣

Sensory play and physical play to burn off some energy at jungleland today.

Making 3D shapes and structures today with the older children

Sensory play for the youngest one today.
Encouraging feeling textures, moving to see images and shiny objects, listening to the sounds made and using lots of fine and gross motor skills.

We used magnetic shapes to make enclosed structures for our number wooden dolls.
We talked about what flat shapes we could use and how we can make new 3D shapes.

A little adjustment to our setting to welcome our new tiny little member into the CCH family.

The setting is always adjusted to suit every child’s needs and stages as they grow. I always make sure that all the children have equal time, play space and attention with me.

The play activities/routines are set up with the aim of achieving different learning goals and experiences for all throughout the day.

This is how childminders work and juggle different age children 😃 x

We now have 3 days available at CCH.
We are based in Dawley bank/Lawley area ofsted graded good in September.
We follow a curiosity approach and like to get out and about in the community. We go on outings and trips like attending forest school and gymnastic sessions each
Week when we can.
Days available are Monday, Thursday and Friday.
Message for any more information 😃

Keep little ones safe this weekend

Today I introduced the children to fireworks so they are prepared for the sounds and adventures they may go or see over the weekend.
We watched some fireworks on the TV so that they could see what they where and hear the sounds that they make.
I encouraged the childrens vocabulary by making sounds of the fireworks for them to copy 🎇 whizz, pop, Boom, bang and fizz.

We talked a bit about safety explaining the dangers of touching a bonfire 🔥 or fireworks 🎆

I set up some mark making areas for the children to explore. As the children used tools to make firework marks we made the sounds and named the colours. All the children had a go copying the sounds and some told me they where making fireworks and going to see some with family members.

Proud to say we have been given a hygiene rating of 5 again after our food inspection visit today 😃

I wanted to share a local business Crafty Kayleigh that I have had a few things made from. I’m a sucker for personalised things and being able to have ideas that someone can make up for me is great as I love a DIY project 😄
Such good prices, amazing quality and always packaged so nicely.
perfect for Christmas gifts 🎁

We can finally announce 📣 that we had our ofsted inspection in September and We where graded Good 😊 x x

Day 2 of half term
Making potions 🧪 ,Baking biscuits,
Making pasta kebabs and glow in the dark spooky cups.

First day of half term and we did Pumpkin 🎃 picking and calving.

All designs and cutting was done by the children. Love seeing them use independent skills and own mark making with a little assistance when they ask 💜
All where so proud 🥹 once completed and that’s what it’s all about 😍

Diwali 🪔

Autumn area and story books introduced to the setting.

Exploring Acorns in our Autumn 🍂 theme topic.

Room on the Broom 🧹 theme at forest school today. The children made magic potions 🧪 and a Broom.

Autumn 🍂 😃 is here

Autumn 🍂 painting as we learn to share and work as a team. The children choose how they wanted to paint it.

We love Autumn 🍂 🤗
The children spent ages collecting conkers today at forest school. we learnt so much about Autumn and got lovely and messy.
We have so many conkers now to explore and use in different learning experiences in our setting.

More butterflies 🦋 today.
The children where asking for the butterfly song so they could flutter around.
We decided to make some wings so they could be a real butterfly.
We went on a walk to collect Autumn 🍂 leaves for the wings along with some flowers 🌸 that we already had.
The children loved running in the house and outside with them on fluttering away 🥰
We even had them on during the school run 😍🤣

Role play, language and reading 😍

Learning about butterflies 🦋 and Animals.
It’s all about the children’s interests 😃

Love using Autumn loose parts 🥰

Fun with colours.
Colour recognition, learning new words, matching, noticing changes of colours when mixed, problem solving and mark making.

This photo says it all 😍 the children have helped themselves to the resources that is available to them each day.
As you can see they are all fully engaged learning as they play.
The play is opened and lead by the children.
Two children explored cutting dough with scissors and the other child was counting stones in the kitchen.
My teachable moment was to show the two children how to hold the scissors easier to snip with and the other child I asked to join in her play by counting and challenge her to pick out different amounts from a large group.

Lovely to be back at forest school again.
Look 👀 at all the learning experience they got in one session 💕 🌳
The children have been loving the 3 little pigs so we where excited to make the pigs each a home after listening to the story.

Maths in the sand. The children role played making cup cakes and used loose parts to arrange, recognise and count.

second week of the summer holidays. What an action packed week we have had again.
Cosford, exotic zoo, baking, gymnastics, iron museum and more. I need a week off to recovery 😅