Do-Re-Mi Childminding

Do-Re-Mi Childminding Welcome to Do-Re-Mi Childminding. I’m Flora. Come and visit our curious setting. 🪴

We are a term time only home from home setting.
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CPD is always important in any childcare setting. Inclusion is an essential part of how we work at Do-Re-Mi Childminding...
17/11/2024

CPD is always important in any childcare setting. Inclusion is an essential part of how we work at Do-Re-Mi Childminding. In order to ensure we are up to date with the latest and most relevant guidance, we have recently undertaken the Dingley’s Promise Inclusion Friendly Setting award. We are very proud that our work as an inclusive setting has been recognised. 🧸

Lest We Forget! 🌺 This week, we have offered the children opportunities for remembrance. We made poppy themed playdough ...
12/11/2024

Lest We Forget! 🌺 This week, we have offered the children opportunities for remembrance. We made poppy themed playdough whilst the CBeebies programme. The children used new vocabulary as we described what we could see in the programme. We discussed how the music made us feel. We also painted poppies outside in our garden.

Today we had a visitor in our setting; however, it wasn’t a usual visitor. 🐐 We had a pygmy goat come into the setting t...
04/11/2024

Today we had a visitor in our setting; however, it wasn’t a usual visitor. 🐐 We had a pygmy goat come into the setting to our garden today. The children got to take care of the goat, feeding and brushing him.
Meet Macca, the pygmy goat, from Chloe's Mobile Farm.

Our pumpkins are finally over. Children have continued to develop their gross motor skills by throwing the pumpkins and ...
02/11/2024

Our pumpkins are finally over. Children have continued to develop their gross motor skills by throwing the pumpkins and pulling them apart. What a great range of schemas they have developed! 🎃

As our pumpkin season comes to an end, the children have throughly enjoyed continuing to build on their fine motor skill...
02/11/2024

As our pumpkin season comes to an end, the children have throughly enjoyed continuing to build on their fine motor skills by hammering golf picks into pumpkins and putting elastic bands on them. 🎃

During our local TD Day, the children really enjoyed the chance to do some biscuit decorating. They got to drizzle icing...
01/11/2024

During our local TD Day, the children really enjoyed the chance to do some biscuit decorating. They got to drizzle icing sugar over their biscuits and then decorate with their own toppings. Before the best part of the activity, eating them! This really developed children’s fine motor skills and they had great fun! 🍪

Last week, we had a visit from Krazy Kangas. The children absolutely loved singing nursery rhymes. Even our after school...
31/10/2024

Last week, we had a visit from Krazy Kangas. The children absolutely loved singing nursery rhymes. Even our after school children weren’t too big for singing along. 🎶

*Advert*Unusually, DoReMi Childminding currently has spaces available for under 5s and after school provision. DoReMi Ch...
30/10/2024

*Advert*

Unusually, DoReMi Childminding currently has spaces available for under 5s and after school provision.

DoReMi Childminding is based in Abbey Meads, Swindon. We pride ourselves on our nurturing home from home setting. Children in our care thrive through the curiosity approach and develop a love for learning through engaging play.

Unusually, we have had some limited availability arise. From September we have daytime spaces available on Tuesday and Thursdays. We have after school care from Haydonleigh available too. We accept 15 and 30 hours funded spaces and tax free childcare vouchers.

Why not come and visit our setting in action. You’ll be sure to see how much fun we have every day!

Send us a message soon to enquire about our availability - spaces won’t be available for long.

Happy Birthday! 🎂 We have been celebrating our friends birthdays by making rice crispy cakes. The best bit is having a p...
30/10/2024

Happy Birthday! 🎂 We have been celebrating our friends birthdays by making rice crispy cakes. The best bit is having a party and eating our cakes at the end! 🧁

The children loved our last autumn walk so much h that we headed out again this week. We went off on an autumnal walk an...
29/10/2024

The children loved our last autumn walk so much h that we headed out again this week. We went off on an autumnal walk and we took watery paints to play with in the puddles. We discussed the autumn weather and how the leaves were changing. We found conkers and shells to talk about their textures. Then some of our local childminders joined us and the children got to play with other children of their age and see the paints in the puddles. 🎨🖌️

Foam! What a great outdoor activity for the children. They loved touching and exploring the textures of foam. They were ...
28/10/2024

Foam! What a great outdoor activity for the children. They loved touching and exploring the textures of foam. They were expanding their vocabulary by talking about what they could feel!

Children have enjoyed playing with the cars recently so we gave them the opportunity to take their learning further. We ...
27/10/2024

Children have enjoyed playing with the cars recently so we gave them the opportunity to take their learning further. We set up a car workshop where children were fixing our toys cars with screwdrivers. They talked about people who help us, e.g. mechanics. We extended children's language by talking about their equipment, e.g. screwdriver and spirit level. This activity really supported children to build strength for their fine motor skills.

Getting outdoors in our setting is important. So recently we went on an autumn leaf walk which turned into muddy puddle ...
26/10/2024

Getting outdoors in our setting is important. So recently we went on an autumn leaf walk which turned into muddy puddle exploration. We were exploring how the mud felt in our hands, extending our language by using words like squelch, squidgy, and gooey. We used our hands to paint the bark on trees. We even explored watery puddles and described how they were more water than mud compared to the muddier puddles. It helped us to understand Autumn through exploration.

During Autumn, the children have enjoyed exploring leaves and sticking them onto sticky back plastic. We used the chance...
25/10/2024

During Autumn, the children have enjoyed exploring leaves and sticking them onto sticky back plastic. We used the chance to extend children’s language through discussing size and shape. We also used oracy skills to explore the colours of leaves and why the leaves have fallen. 🍁

Recently, we had a visit from our local fire station. They showed us the truck and the equipment inside. We learnt that ...
24/10/2024

Recently, we had a visit from our local fire station. They showed us the truck and the equipment inside. We learnt that they have a tank of water on the back and they are very loud when they put on their sirens. The children held hoses and got to sit in the back seat of the fire truck.

It is important to teach children the importance of people who help us and having a wider sense of the community.

It was a great experience for all! 🚒

As we into Autumn, we have been using the Autumnal theme in our setting. This has involved lots of exciting activities b...
23/10/2024

As we into Autumn, we have been using the Autumnal theme in our setting. This has involved lots of exciting activities but we really loved painting pumpkins with authentic and natural materials. We used our schemas to learn and understand paints and mixing colours. 🎃

This week, we have been exploring bars of soap and water. We have discussed how it feels and what happens to the water. ...
22/10/2024

This week, we have been exploring bars of soap and water. We have discussed how it feels and what happens to the water. We have been extending vocabulary with words like opaque and foam.

It has been great experiencing holding slippy soap and thinking outside the box with ways to catch the soap.

The children have enjoyed making 'pizza' with dough, lavender to represent herbs and redbush tea leaves for tomatoes. Th...
21/10/2024

The children have enjoyed making 'pizza' with dough, lavender to represent herbs and redbush tea leaves for tomatoes. The children loved patting, squishing and scouping their dough. Children used their schemas to explore the dough. From hiding the herbs inside the dough to mixing them all together.

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Abbeymeads
Cheltenham
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Tuesday 8am - 6pm
Wednesday 8am - 6pm
Thursday 8am - 6pm
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