Little Palms Childminding

Farm tray 🐷🐑

Water Play & Bubbles 💦 🫧

DID YOU KNOW -

Nursery rhymes have so many benefits for young children...

Not only do children love them - For many children, nursery rhymes are the first songs that they know really well.

Nursery rhymes have a massive positive impact on children’s development. They give children early exposure to language, rhyme, and alliteration.

Bees 🐝

🐝 Black & Yellow rice tray We added scoops, bowls and hives made from pasta to the rice to explore.

🐝 Bumblebee paintings - We used a potato masher to make our own pictures of bumblebees.

🐝 We looked at a range of age appropriate bee books 📚

We've been learning some new bee nursery rhymes... our favourite was Here is the beehive 🐝

DID YOU KNOW:-
BEES HAVE 5 EYES 👀

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Photos from BBC Tiny Happy People's post

Friday morning well spent at the farm 🚜🐐

Bugs & Butterflies 🦋 🐛

Last week we explored bug related activities

- Mini beast tuff tray looking at which bugs are found on the ground and which ones have wings. We enjoyed getting dirty from the dirt!

- We put together some bug number slice puzzles

- We looked at different bug books for different age ranges learning new facts.

- We participated in some physical activities looking at the life cycles of frogs, chickens and Butterflies. We also did a spring activity challenge.

Picnic, a little play & stories outdoors today ☀️

Last week we enjoyed exploring lots of green activities in relation to our topic - Speckled Frogs 🐸

- Green coloured yoghurt
- Lime Jelly
- Green Playdough
- Frog props for singing 5 little speckled frogs
- Green Sand
- Lots of stories with frogs in
- Frog tuff tray

We also made some Frog pictures and looked at the Frog cycle, we collected leaves and sticks to use in our pond activities.

Muddy walks are our favourite 💦

Last weeks coronation fun 👑🔴⚪️🔵

Enjoying nature 🌿🌧

Our favourite thing was jumping in muddy puddles and making a mud potion for the Gruffalo

Enjoying our new sensory ball 🏐

Singing time 🎶

We use our singing sticks to help us choose which songs to sing along with some of our everyday favourites...

Our main favourite is Row, Row, Row your boat 🛶

Exploring everyday objects 📲🔑

When your own child likes helping mommy at work 🥰

Cornflour messy play 🌸

When you work with one of the best families🥹 It's such a pleasure looking after your little one thank you for putting your trust into me 🥰

We're now closed for the Easter break.

Any messages received either by WhatsApp or messenger will not be responded to until Thursday 13th April as I am away for a family holiday.

Hope you all have a lovely Easter!

Call the Easter Bunny 🐰

Even "Thor's" excited for Easter that he had to call up the Easter Bunny to make sure he would be getting a treat 🍫😋

Easter Fun 🐣

- Painting 🖌🎨
- Card making 🥚
- Coloured shredded paper with chicks and bunnies 🐣🐰

At Little Palms we love books 📚

Today we looked at our Easter Books independently before listening to them together 🐰🐣

Our two favourites were -

🐣 Fluffy Chick
🥔 Supertato the great Eggscape

Now offering funded spaces 🙌

Dinosaur play 🦕

All things RED ❤️

Reflection play 🪞

A few benefits;

🪞 Supports healthy development & learning
🪞 Helps develop babies visual senses
🪞 A way to nurture your child's developing self-awareness which is an important part of their social-emotional development.
🪞 Used during tummy time can help babies develop their muscle

Half Term Fun 🤍

- We visited the local farm 🐖🐑🐐
- Went to soft play 🛝
- Read lots of stories together 📚
- Explored different activities 🐴🦁🐘

Treasure Baskets 🤎

Nurturing & Stimulating

Treasure baskets provide an exciting sensory experience for babies. Through exploration babies get the chance to touch, taste, smell, see and hear a variety of different objects.

We've enjoyed exploring treasure baskets of -
🤎 Metal
🤎 Musical/Sound
🤎 Natural
🤎 Wooden

Love potions ❤️

Exploring the Colour Monster and his Emotions 👾

Lots of learning opportunities - developing fine motor skills, learning about colour and talking about our feelings 😊😔😡

It's national story telling week. We enjoy stories everyday at Little Palms!

Today we have enjoyed exploring the Gruffalo story using finger puppets to retell our own story.

For the big garden bird watch we kept it simple by using birds seeded food as a base for emptying and filling 🐦

We love to get the paints out and explore with colours 🎨

The children have the opportunity to use paint tools if they want to, they also have the opportunity to use their body parts - hands, fingers, feet etc whichever they choose to explore with.

The important part is children love to get messy- it's all part of the process not what the end result looks like. 🎨🖌🤚

Chinese New Year 🐇🐉

In the run up to Chinese New Year we have:

- Tasted noodles 🍜
- Explored a coloured rice tuff tray using chop sticks to pick up pom poms 🥢
- Learning to count 1-10 in Chinese 🔢
- Been painting, sticking and gluing & mark making to make lanterns 🏮

We've enjoyed learning about the Chinese culture 🇨🇳

Last week was houseplant week 🪴 We did a variety of activities focusing on how to take care of plants.

One of the activities we enjoyed was planting seeds and helping to water the plants 🌱💧

After listening to the story - In Arctic Waters We decided to set up an activity around this topic 🌊🧊

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Over the Christmas break we have made a few changes at Little Palms Childminding 🥰

- Converted one of our kitchens to a seasonal kitchen (Who's ready for some hot chocolate?) 🫕☕️

- Added mirrors 🪞

- Updated our mark making area with an art trolley so all resources are accessible 🎨🖌

- Added our 'Every child is an artist' sign on the wall with pictures 🖼

- Chose a colour theme for our ikea doll house themed resources 🌈🦖

- Updated our reading area with new pictures & the gruffalo's child theme 🐾

- Added a highchair to use with our baby dolls 🪆🪑

- Moved resources around and added technology resources📱