Coastal Kiddies Childminding

Fun at plessey woods today! Splashing in the river, mud jumping, den building, tree climbing. A lot of tired children tonight!

Lots of fun exploring today! This morning we had a walk through the woods, splashing in the puddles, stamping on the bridges and writing in the mud. This afternoon We counted raindrops on the windows and then made our own cloud and rain pictures to put on our windows at home. 🌧

Our new topic this term is weather! We had Lots of fun exploring rainbows this afternoon. We talked about when we might see rainbows and the different colours in a rainbow. We used scissors and glue to put our materials in the right place on our rainbow 🙂

We made it!! Thank you to everyone for all of the lovely cards and gifts. We have enjoyed every single minute of our first term and look forward to the many adventures and memories to make next year. We would like to wish every single one of our families a very Merry Christmas. See you all in 2019!

An important date for any parents of children who are moving into reception in September. The online admission portal closes on 15th January 2019 😊

This is lovely to watch. We have been learning some makaton and signing Christmas songs too. 💛

To check if you qualify for help with your childcare costs please visit www.childcarechoices.gov.uk. We still have some spaces available for new friends from January, contact us via messenger for more information 😊

This morning we headed to the seven oaks in cramlington to choose an angel off the Christmas tree. On the angel was the name of a one year old little boy and what he would like for Christmas. We took the angel and went shopping for presents for this little boy to open on Christmas morning. We put them (and more) into a lovely bag to pass onto his social worker. We talked about how the children might feel who wake up without any presents on Christmas morning and how we could help them #christmasangels #britishvalues #charityatchristmas

We enjoyed a long walk in the fresh air this afternoon. We spotted lots of animals, talked about what we could see, hear and smell and jumped in the biggest, muddiest puddle we could find. Lots of muddy, happy, tired children. 🌧

Lots of festive activities this week! We made Christmas trees, visited heighley gate and azure to look at the Christmas decorations and Santa’s grottos, Christmas movies, Christmas songs and even visited Santa’s reindeer! Lots more activities and adventures planned for the next few weeks.

Over the Christmas holidays we are open the 2nd, 3rd and 4th of January. If you would like cover please let me know, I will try and catch everyone if I remember. 😊

An absolutely amazing day today fundraising for children in need. We dressed up, got our faces painted, decorated biscuits, made Pudsey ears and of course did party dances. Overall we have raised an amazing £64 to help transform the lives of children around the country! Special thanks to Donna and Courtney for all of your hard work, to the wonderful people of lynemouth for your generous donations and of course all of the children and parents for your amazing support! Ooh and the duck race winner was James pond! I’ll post the link to the race in the comments! Thanks again guys, have an amazing weekend!! 🦆 🎉

For our Friday children we will be having a pudsey party! There will be face painting, biscuit decorating, and lots of party games! For a small donation you can come dressed as pudsey or in spots. We have our pudsey ears ready!! We also have some ducks left for our duck race. All money raised will be donated to children in need on Friday night! Thank you again for all of your support 🦆 😊

Any children who are heading into nursery in January and would like to claim the 30 hour funding need to apply on www.childcarechoices.gov.uk and then pass on relevant codes please! 😊

PLEASE BE AWARE: I have been informed by a parent this morning that their little one has hand foot and mouth. I’ve attached the information from the NHS for what the symptoms are so you know what to look out for https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/hand-foot-m outh-disease/

Remembrance is such a hard topic to share with little ones, but it’s so important they grow up knowing the sacrifices that some brave men and women did for our country. On Friday we watched this little clip as a starting point to encourage discussion. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04p4zsl . ‘At the going down of the sun, and in the morning, we will remember them.’

Our topic this half term is colour! Lots of colour activities this week! Colour matching, Diwali patterns, firework pictures, exploring the Duplo bricks. We even popped into Heighley Gate to look at the Christmas lights, and we have even had the Christmas music on this morning. 😏 🎄

Promoting our British values we are fundraising for children in need! We will be doing lots of fun activities between 12th and 16th November 😀 Ending with a party on the Friday! 🎉The duck race is one of our activities, so if you would like to sponsor a duck we are asking for a donation and if your duck wins the race (held on Friday 16th) you win a prize😃 thank you for your continued support GOOD LUCK 👌