Mikala Hinsby's Childminding

19/06/2024

The children discovered new additions to our dual language books today - My First 100 Albanian and Mandarian Words. I have been taught that a chocolate cake in Albanian is pronounced Cokollate Tortë 🎂. One little one was very proud of me, told me I said it correctly and I deserved a high five 👋 😍

12/06/2024

For healthy eating week today we went to the shops to buy a selection of different food to try. We picked a mixture of fruits, vegetables and a few treats because although the children knew about the importance of fruit and vegetables it's also important that we need all types of foods to create a healthy, balanced diet and that everything is okay to eat in little amounts. We recorded which foods were our favourites and which we wouldn't like to have again. There was a clear winner that mango and crisps were delicious and they would like the mango as one of their fruits with lunch.

11/06/2024

This morning for healthy eating week the children chose the ingredients to make a smoothie - bananas and blueberries with a splash of fresh orange. They all enjoyed cutting up the fruit, tasting it to make sure it was going to make a delicious smoothie and putting it in the blender. They were fascinated with watching it change colour as all the ingredients were all mixed together. When it came to trying it everyone declared it was delicious and one little one asked it we could make a yellow one tomorrow so we shall see if we cam find a reciepe.

10/06/2024

The start of healthy eating week we talked about what foods we liked, where they came from and got to try a new fruit - yellow melon as the children named it.

07/06/2024

Secret crafts have started for next Sunday 🤫

22/05/2024

For we used different resources to see if we could recognise numbers and then count the objects to represent these numbers. We also read a lovely rhyming book which the children found very funny and then watched numberblocks to which the children counted along to.

20/05/2024

With today being 🐝 we started out by colour and pattern matching to create our bees. Whilst doing this we talked about what bees eat and what they make, one little one asked if they could try some honey. We started off dipping our apples into it and it was then requested that could it be spread on toast like their mummy has for breakfast. Everyone declared it was yummy but very sticky.

15/05/2024

With this week being week we have had great fun talking about what makes us happy, what we enjoy but also things that may make us sad or worried but that is okay because we can tell grown ups about this and they will help to make things better. When completing our emotion puzzles we talked about what the faces showed and then the children were asked about their feelings.
Child one said that a monster made them scared.
Child two that mummy bringing them a new toy made them happy.
Child three said that their birthday made them excited.

02/05/2024

The past two days the children have chosen activities that have caughter their imaginations combining various resources within the setting. The stones they collected from the garden and had great fun practicing those hand/eye coordination skills by using the spoons to push them from one end to the other. The magnetic toys caught their imagination and even more so once we discovered that they would/wouldn't connect to various objects within the setting.

26/04/2024

A big part of our learning happens using loose parts incorporated into free play, both inside and out, giving everyone the opportunity to use items in anyway they see fit broadening learning opportunities. This gives items an endless scope to be whatever children what it to be therefore they have the ability to develop and use their imagination to the best of their abilities

25/04/2024

Initiated by the children we had a lovely morning reading, amongst other things. We snuggled up on the sofa and here are just a few of the selection of books the children wanted me to read to them, followed by them going off and looking at books independently. The rich language that the children were using to talk about what they could see whilst we read was lovely to hear and seeing how engrossed in the books they were will hopefully lead to a lifetime love of reading.

23/04/2024

Happy St Georges Day 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿
The children enjoyed helping set up this activity by tearing and rolling the tissue paper and had great fun matching the colours of the paper with those on their flags. A lot of fine motor and mathematical skills used for this activity today.
We then went on to watch a cbeebies video about St George and how he beat the dragon.

18/04/2024

Earlier in the week we looked at the life cycles of both a frog and a sunflower and discovered that as long we we put them in the correct numerical order we could just keep moving them and it would always go in a circle. On a very windy Monday the children had great fun playing in the fallen blossom from this amazing tree at school. Today we recreated the blossom tree, we looked at the picture and talked about various parts of the tree, what colour the blossom is, how we would create the colour and what we were going to use to apply the paint.

10/04/2024

A lovely morning over enjoying the sunshine.

12/03/2024

It may be been a wet and gloomy day but we had great fun with our new resources. Initially meant for the garden the children were very excited to see what had been delivered so we brought it into the cabin. The mathematical language today has been amazing as well the team work and seeing their imagination come to life bringing in a wide variety of other resources.

07/03/2024

the children were asked if they would like to bring in their favourite books from home to share with their friends. This went down really well and everyone enjoyed listening and talking about their books and their favourite parts. As well as reading fiction books the children also chose a firm non-fiction favourite from the setting which got us talking about a wide variety of animals along with where they live.

01/03/2024

Today for St Davids Day we made Welsh cakes to celebrate, along with a special little ladies 4th birthday. Happy St Davids Day to all our Welsh friends 🎂🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

28/02/2024

A little early for St Davids Day 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 but we thought we'd brighten up the cabin with our very own interpretation of some beautiful daffodils 🌼

14/02/2024

Maybe a little late but we had a lovely time celebrating Chinese New Year. As we'll as celebrating with our friends at Karen Smith Childminding the children have a traditional red money bag to take home for good luck.

13/02/2024

We started pancake day with our craft ones where we cut, chose the toppings that we would like and stuck them on. We then prepared our fruit, made the batter and ate our delicious pancakes for lunch 😋😋😋

12/02/2024

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08/02/2024

We talked about the Luna New Year, how each year is represent by a different animal which everyone found very funny. Following on from the children's interest in shapes earlier in the week we made our shape dragons and the children discovered a new shape they didn't know - a semicircular.

06/02/2024

we read The Colour Monster and talked about what made us feel happy/sad/angy, it was amazing how intune with their emotions the children were and were able to articulate them to me. Such a positive experience. Whilst I was preparing resources the children became fascinated with the lolly sticks so following their lead we discovered how we could make various shapes with plenty of number and colour talk as well.

01/02/2024

we read one of our favourite books - Goldilocks and the Three Bears, used our props to act out the story and then made our very own porridge. There was a lot of mathematical talk regarding sizing of the bowels, spoons and bears along with some amazing fine motor skills filling up the bowels both with the spoons and using our fingers.

26/01/2024

Yesterday we made our binoculars to take on our walk go and to the park to see which birds we could find for .
Today we have made anzac biscuits to celebrate Australia day and declared they were very yummy both before they went in the oven and once cooked, plenty to take home 😊 The children throughly enjoyed making their own lunches today and we very proud of themselves for using the knives safely.

16/01/2024

Some amazing team work and turn taking today, the alaphbet bricks are a firm favourite and everyone worked together to see how high they could build a tower. We also used pegs and cotton wool to print on our snowflakes which came out really well ❄️❄️❄️

15/01/2024

Strengthing those muscles in the fingers to enable us to eventually hold a pencil and start forming shapes and letters. There was lots of squishing, pulling, rolling, squeezing and creating. We made penguins🐧 using our ones from last week as a template and after rolling different sized balls we balanced them on top of each other to make different sized snowmen⛄️

13/01/2024

Keeping up to date first aid training.

12/01/2024

We went straight from school to do our . The children discovered there were very few leaves on the trees but wanted to pick some so we could paint with them. Upon coming home we started off creating our leaf printing in winter colours, this then led to some amazing exploration of the paint talking about the temperature, texture and what happens when we mix the colours together.

08/01/2024

It may have been a reather chilly start to the New Year but we started back as we mean to go on introducing the into our routine. Whilst out we experienced some snow flurries which created great excitement from everyone ❄️
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