Sassi's Scallywags Childminding

Busy making memories

Colour play and exploration, using positioning of the table as a base. Now we have to keep adding underneath for them to find.
Elmer was a colourful topic and fun being elephants.
Space week being astronauts after painting rockets, being aliens and space in a bottle. Our own astronaut and his rocket will fly.
Autumn is our new season, changing colours, weather and textures. Using ripping to make our scarecrows, looking at hibernation, cooking food with harvest vegs and of course 🍃 leaves.

Today we made lentil Dahl and chapatis we cooked the chapatis on a Tava and made the lentil Dahl making a Torka 1st with onions ginger chili's and garlic and a few spices

Been national hygiene week so we've looked at our teeth and keeping them clean. Even the toys and the dogs had their teeth checked. Investigated healthy diets and germy hands.
Supported the footy with some decorations too. On our walk we looked at how to keep safe and after playing washing our hands.

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Busy busy busy, some of our activities

Been a few busy weeks

National bee day

A busy time enjoying the outdoors and nice weather. Planting sunflowers 🌻, textures, sizing, following instructions, working together and now to watch them grow.
Bugs on our walk and garden.
Firefighters in our community.
Pirates around the world.

Easter fun exploring flowers, chick's, bunnies and eggs. We decorated our boxes for easter and planted cress seeds in bunny cups.

Easter is on it's way

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Monster mayhem, after building a monster mansion and playing hide and seek with the monsters, we made our own. Then oat playdough so it was lumpy. Even our molly maybe book included monsters though we have 2 already.

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Pizza time with Neil

Just a little water play

The weather couldn't be better for our winter topic, even dottie was cold and joined in

Amazing how a childs imagination works, set bits for construction and it lead to so many other activities. Weve been builders, hairdressers and even fed the pigs!

Some of our autumn crafts looking at seasonal changes, colours, smells, tastes while building on our fine motor skills

Sassi’s Scallywags – Child Minding

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Sassi’s Scallywags – Child Minding Hi everyone my name is Sarah and welcome to our website! We’ve had a houseful of children over the years who have now flown the nest and are all working & studying. We have made a lovely home which is welcoming and warm to all who visit. Old families and new are warmly greeted by all the family, w...

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Day trip to brockswood was remembered by making the journey using bricks. We chose the animals we saw on our trip and discussing what we saw.

First activity packs sent to parents to continue learning at home

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Our valentine's are receiving love bugs this year

Exploring sizes with magnifying glasses.
Frog on a log story gave us opportunities to explore the natural world, who knew there were so many colours! Great fun copying frog too.
Colour matching and learning shades.
Storytelling by using toy animals in story.
Our science has been to make an indoor tunnel wall for rice and pasta. Now we're happy it works we can paper mache it and paint.

Busy days, working through a book each week. Dear zoo, the hungry Caterpillar, with chinese new year and burns night.

The hungry Caterpillar, our crafts but theres so much more

First week back and we built a zoo, so of course first book has to be Dear Zoo.

Childcare placements available.
Bring your little ones to join in the fun and watch then grow to love learning the world.

The Life of a Childcare Practitioner 😉

You know bob the builder and all his friends. Doing 15+ nappies a day is the norm. You know all nursery rhymes & songs. You have perfected 'the look' when a child missbehaves. You can get 8+ children to sleep within 20minutes. You find yourself saying 'I'm not going to tell you again' then repeating it 5 minutes later. Checking your hair for headlice becomes apart of your beauty regime. The word OFSTED sends panic through you. If you don't come home with paint/glue/some form of messy play in your hair or on your clothes, then it has been a very successful day. After a long hard day you hate it when your friends say "Why are you so tired, you only play all day" - Two words... Potty training!!!
You can recite "we're going on a bear hunt... we're going to catch a big one... we're not scared..." without even a glance at the book you say 'oh dear, how sad' on a daily basis. You flinch when someone says 'naughty' but then you realise that in the real world it isnt a FORBIDDEN word!! You can make up games on the spot. You are aware that "twinkle twinkle little star" and the alphabet have the same tune. You have 20 pairs of shoes and know which shoes belong to who. You refer to head lice as 'little friends'. You love playing outside as much as the children.
You leave work looking like you've been dragged through a hedge backwards and stamped on by a heard of elephants, despite leaving the house in pristine condition less than 12 hours earlier!
And we wouldn't change it for the world 😍

This week during our Paddington visits we have also covered stranger danger. How to keep each other safe and looking after each other.

Alphabet Handprint Art

I think a project for September

mommyminutesblog.blogspot.com It's the post you've all been waiting for.....the WHOLE alphabet!  Here you go! Like I mentioned before, there are some letters that ...