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Do-Re-Mi Childminding

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Welcome to Do-Re-Mi Childminding. I’m Flora. Come and visit our curious setting. 🪴
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21/08/2024

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Unusually, DoReMi Childminding currently has spaces available from September 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, Wednesday 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.

01/08/2024

A busy day at Do-Re-Mi Childminding today, we are always looking to improve the setting. Today we dismantled the shed and are awaiting a delivery of stones to turn this into a new place for the children to be curious…It has really opened up our garden and made more space for the children to play!

05/07/2024

This week bought coconuts into our setting! What an experience it was. The children absolutely loved smashing the coconuts on the floor, drinking the coconut water, tasting coconut and improving their transport trajectories. We found so many opportunities from the coconuts and the children couldn’t wait to go home and share what they had been doing today. 🥥🌴

04/07/2024

Today we had great fun in the setting. We used the washing line in the garden to create our own waterfalls. It made the garden super wet and we enjoyed exploring the mud we made afterwards. It really supported the children's trajectory schemas and sensory fulfilment. What a great activity!

01/07/2024

Recently, we have throughly enjoyed using child safe powder paint. We have bringing Science into the setting through exploration. We have observed how powder turns water a different colour. We have added different amounts of powder paint to see how the colour changes. We used authentic items like teapots and saucepans to transport the coloured water to other parts of the garden. We have used our gross motor skills to tip and carry heavy items. This activity was great fun for all. 🫖🚰

30/06/2024

*Advert*

DoReMi Childminding Rare Space Available from October Monday to Wednesday

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 October, daytime space available from Monday to Wednesday. We have before and after school care from Haydonleigh Primary School available from Monday to Thursdays. 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.

30/06/2024

During the warm weather, we have enjoyed making playdough in the garden. We have changed its colour through mixing and stirring. We explored how the flour and water create a dough when mixed. Within this activity, children explored with their own orientation. Some children were standing, sitting, crouching or leaning.

29/06/2024

This week we were lucky enough to have a donation of sump from one of our children. We used it to scoop and pour and make dinner for our friends. We talked about it being light and heavy. We sprinkled with our hands and then transported it to different areas. Learning about space and volume. 🍚

28/06/2024

Music is a huge part of the early years. It is welcomed everywhere in our setting. This week, it even appeared in the garden using natural materials. 🎶

27/06/2024

The children are really engaging in art activities at the moment. They have enjoyed exploring paints in the garden freely. This is to help their gross and fine motor skills. We used a variety of sizes of paint brushes and rollers. Children can use their hands, feet and bodies. We also have natural items to make interesting marks.🎨🖌️🖼️

26/06/2024

What a hot week it’s been! Summer really has arrived but how long will it last! In the extreme heat, we’ve been trying to ensure the children get some outdoor play in a safe manner. We’ve been keeping them cool in the shade with cold water. They’ve been using all their bodies to experience the water. We’ve offered authentic and natural resources. 💦

22/06/2024

In our local environment, we have been having trees cut back by the local council. As part of this, branches had fallen so we explored the leaves. We pretended to be zebras eating the leaves by picking them with our fingers. We then extended the children’s play by providing scissors.

17/06/2024

Developing children’s fine motor skills at an early age is important for their development. We have been providing a wide range of opportunities for the children in the setting. Children have been choosing their own items to use. We have had some great scissor skills, painting, spraying etc.

16/06/2024

There has been even more reading in our setting this week. Our childminding assistant, Joe, has been sharing stories in the garden with the children. Geronimo is a fantastic story and a favourite of the children. Reading happens anywhere. 📙

15/06/2024

This week, we have had plenty of deliveries to the setting. Each and every box that arrived has provided us with a new opportunity. Therefore, this week, we have been mixing primary colours together and painting the boxes from different heights. Children choose different instruments to paint with and especially loved the spray bottles. What a great opportunity for our children!

15/06/2024

At Do-Re-Mi Childminding, we really value literature. It doesn’t matter if we are inside or outside we take the time to share books with the children. In this photo, our childminding assistant, Gemma, is sharing a book on the decking in the garden. More and more children joined to hear the story. 📙📗📘📕

02/06/2024

Half term has been busy at Do-Re-Mi Childminding. The setting is always evolving. We have invested in a new playhouse for the garden which will very soon become our new outdoor sandpit. We have been moving our indoor areas around to keep provoking children’s learning and sparking their interests. We can’t wait to welcome back the children tomorrow for the summer term.

31/05/2024

We have a new face in our setting. We’d like to welcome Joe to the DoReMi team. Joe has proven to be an asset to the team already - finding bugs with the children, taking part in water play and reading us stories.

25/05/2024

As the wonderful weather has continued, we have been fortunate to embrace the outdoors further. Children have been exploring the sand in their own ways. The children have been using their schemas to transport, transform and practice orientation and many more…

In our setting, the sky is the limit. Children took the water and transported it into the sand to make it wet where they made dinner for the adults. We had some wonderful creations.

Independently, they fully submerged themselves into their play with no boundaries. Throughout their play, we reinforce safety with the children - ensuring no sand was thrown.

24/05/2024

In our setting, children often come across insects and creatures. We encourage the children to safely explore these creatures. Today children found slugs and worms in our garden space. Children enjoyed discussing what they could see that was the same and different and observing their natural habitats. Science at its finest! 🐛🪱🐌

23/05/2024

We have been lucky to have such beautiful weather recently. Here at Do-Re-Mi Childminding we have been embracing every opportunity. We have been enjoying foam play in the sunshine, developing our scooping, splating, shaping, transporting skills using the foam.

Children are always encouraged to take their interests further. So they enjoyed painting with the foam and mixing it with the sand to transform its consistency. It was a wide range of different schemas for play developed by our children today.

These activities were enjoyed by 11 months to 3 years.

22/05/2024

Recently, we have been making chocolate playdough with the children. We stirred and mixed and watched the ingredients change from dry to wet and then into a solid form. They loved the sensory smell of the chocolate. They then explored what happened to the dry dough when submerged into water. A fantastic enriching activity. 🍫

03/05/2024

Science happens even in the early years. Recently, we have been experimenting with vinegar and bicarbonate of soda. When we added food colouring, the children loved seeing what colour it was going to turn. We focussed on the vocabulary the children used to describe the chemical reaction they could see. Wow!

02/05/2024

As the weather has got warmer, we have had the pleasure of fully immersive water play for all ages. Children are able to be curious in their own ways. This could be all in or just our hands. At DoReMi, we embrace using all our senses and if we get wet, we can always change our clothes. 💦

23/04/2024

We have had a busy few weeks with the Easter break. 🐣 Recently, we have been making natural fruit tea waters and adding rosemary to develop our senses. We have been developing our ‘transforming’ schema by mixing things together with our friends. We enjoyed bringing this to life further by using our concoctions in a tea party and creating stories to accompany. 🫖

23/03/2024

A little update on Toddler Town ❤️

So the work has finally been completed by the landlords and hopefully it’s rectified the problems 🤞🏻

Lots of you have been booking on to the stay and play sessions which is amazing and I’m so grateful for your support 🫶🏻

Now the next challenge is to get the party bookings back to where they were before all this uncertainty happened. Toddler town will be remaining open for the immediate future as long as we keep getting lots of people booking the stay and play sessions and our party bookings rise!!
So please feel free to bombard us with your dates 🙏🏻 We still have availability in March and April

If you no longer use toddler town you can still support it by sharing the hell out of our posts and interacting with them as much as possible so the algorithm behaves 🙄

Once again a huge thank you to all of you that have helped keep Toddler Town going this far ### 💖

11/03/2024

We have continued our Lunar New Year theme in our creative activities. The children had a chance to develop their gross motor skills by painting on a shower curtain. The children enjoyed seeing how the primary colours red and yellow mixed together to make orange. They enjoyed using a range of natural resources for painting. 🇨🇳

10/03/2024

Where possible, we give the children authentic resources in our setting. As part of that, we placed real coins out for the children to explore. They enjoyed filling purses and money pots with the coins. Some of our older children naturally began to count the coins. We talked about the differences in the coins to see what they noticed. 🧧

09/03/2024

🇨🇳 Lunar New Year 🇨🇳 Today, we looked children’s schemas during our planning session. We placed our red and gold rice for the children to explore. They had the chance to pour and scoop using a range of implements. The children are really developing their fine motor skills through these specifically planned activities.

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Abbeymeads
Cheltenham
254

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Monday	8am - 6pm
Tuesday	8am - 6pm
Wednesday	8am - 6pm
Thursday	8am - 6pm
Friday	8am - 6pm

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In our setting, we encourage children to use all forms of communication. Makaton is one of the ways you can encourage children to communicate with gestures as they learn words. Therefore, we have begun teaching the children a new sign each week. This week our sign is for ‘more please.’ This is Flora, our setting owner, demonstrating this weeks sign. We encourage you to practice this at home with the children. Look out for another one next week.

The sounds of the children, aren't always loud, with big creations. The curious silence is so loud you can hear the children thinking. I just sat back and watched. Curious at how they would play. Looking for schemas and next steps. In the background you can hear Chelsea and 2 other little ones curious in in the sounds of our musical instruments. No pressure too move on, do it an adults way. Pilots in their on play and learning 😍😍😍

Eeek......Autumn is upon us, my favourite season. Calling too all parents and children can you collect us lots of Autumn nature gifts including pumpkins of all shapes and sizes :) and bring them into the setting for us too be curious with 💛🧡❤🤎 Apologises we have been so quiet the last 2 weeks, we have been settling in our new assistant and all our new mindees. What superstars they are. I will start to post more now we are more settled in. :)

Creating and making their own puddles 😍😍 The children used the outdoor tap to fill up containers and then explored making puddles on the grass. All completely child led. Ps I apologise for my high pitched voice haha