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Another muddy & icy walk to out bridge  - we love having our own bridge!!     Lots of fun running and walking through the mud and the puddles that were icy!   Lots of fun enjoying being out in nature! 

 Love this!  A Great Childminder is hard to find, difficult to part with and impossible to forget!!    

 Love this - it explains exactly why walking barefoot is good for little ones' feet - we love to take our shoes off and feel the ground beneath our feet! 

 This is so true!  We may have difficult days but its all part of learning and growing and seeing the progress all my little ones make, makes childminding so rewarding! 

Check out our lovely picture using the lovely Autumn Colours - we love Autumn!  

  So excited, we have booked 2 visits from the Zoolab Rangers and their animals! Looking forward to seeing and touching the snakes, rats, spiders and frogs!!  We have missed them since Covid started! 

 Yesterday we spent some time sequencing our pots into sizes & also discussing how to change rectangles into squares & vice versa & how we can tell which is a square & which is a rectangle by measuring - in this case, counting the number of bricks on each side........they all did really well!! 

   We have also been learning about all the creatures that live under the sea, and we have also been using a new word meaning Water and that is Aquatic - I love the fact my little ones remember it and can tell everyone else that Aquatic means water! So proud of them - building their vocabulary from a young age! 

 Love the fact that my little ones have fully embraced the Sugar Swap concept!  They  understand how sugar adversely affects their bodies & can discuss it.  Nearly all of them have swapped sugar laden yoghurts for yoghurts and fruit pieces - they love choosing which fruit to pop in their yoghurt each day!  

We had great fun recently drawing portraits of how we think we look - it was lovely to see the difference between the thinking of the younger children and the older children. 

 Its the start of our traditional annual Pumpkin dig out, where we clear out the seeds & insides of our pumpkins with our fingers and various utensils! Excellent for sensory play and for experimenting with textures. Its also great for using our fingers and enhancing our small motor skills! We just love this activity! They look so scary when they are lit up! 

This is so very true - we have seen our little ones make so much progress being with the older children.  It helps their social skills and their speech and understanding - its a brilliant way to progress! 

We were so lucky yesterday as the weather was milder, so we could do another outside Yoga session!  We loved it and our concentration and listening skills were exemplary! We do everything we were told to do & had great fun doing it! 

 Love these words from one of my parents! "How amazing my childminder is! Absolutely amazing & so flexible. What a lady. I struck gold with her!"   

 So proud of my little ones who stood in total silence for Armistice Day, from 19mths through to 3 years old; they seemed to understand the importance of the silence - very proud; showing respect at such a young age. 

Lots of fun drawing our firework pictures and talking about the colours of the fireworks.  We knew the fireworks were orange, yellow and red and they went bang! 

Every Monday/Friday and Wednesdays, we will be taking 10mins out of our day specifically to read - not for our normal Circle Time - but just to sit with a book - turning pages, touching the books, and talking about the pictures.  Great fun! .