Merseyside Child Minding

Week of 02.01.12 We welcomed everyone back after the Christmas New year break. We went for a walk in the park, enjoyed childminder network and meeting up with our childminder friends. We have played some games, number bingo, matching socks and long and short straws which enhanes the children’s maths skills. The children have also enjoyed lots of physical activities, …Continue reading →

Happy New Year to all our children and their families. We have quite a lot to look forward to over the coming weeks, we shall be celebrating Martin Luther King day, St. Andrews day, Chinese New year and Valentines day to name a few celebrations coming up. We are also going to be looking at winter, covering hibernation, migration, snow …Continue reading →

The past two weeks have seen us being very busy: Week beginning 14th November Today saw us playing with the cars and the garage talking about first, second, third and last and the different types of transport. Tuesday 15th November Today we started looking at spots as part of Children in Need we are designing our own tee-shirts with different …Continue reading →

The last four weeks have been very busy. Week of 17th October 2011 This week saw us enjoying the Autumn season, we made 3d trees and looked at the colours and different sizes of leaves. We sorted the leaves out via colour and size, then decided which ones we wanted to put on our trees. Both the children and parents …Continue reading →

Monday 10th October Today the children looked at Autumn leaves and talked about the different colours we can see on the leaves and how bare the trees now look. We went for a walk to Newsham park for the children to visually see the changes we talked about. When we got back the children looked at some different craft leaves …Continue reading →

Monday 3rd October Today saw us having free play and some observations were completed. We enjoyed playing Dotty Dinosaurs looking at our shapes and colours followed up with a game of I spy within the house, trying to find set colours and shapes, we all enjoyed this activity. We had a trip Richmond Park still enjoying the mild weather and …Continue reading →

Monday 26th September Today we welcomed a new child to come and play. We had a quiet day settling in getting to know each other and each others routines. We used the conkers we collected last week to do some number games and activities. We ended the day with a trip to Richmond Park to play on the large play …Continue reading →

Monday 19th September Today saw the start of another busy week. We started off at Breck Road Library taking part in Jingle Jangles. The children enjoyed the craft activity, story and the songs and rhymes to end the session. In the afternoon we started to look at National Dog week, so we looked at different pictures of dogs and talked …Continue reading →

Monday 12th September Today saw another child take the next step in there development by starting Nursery School. They were very excited when they returned to us after the morning session, showing us their uniform and telling us about the things they had been upto. In the afternoon we took it easy as we were feeling a bit tired after …Continue reading →