What better way to spend my last week as a childminder than with extra time with the schoolies….the weather has certainly favoured us.

Pirates who picnic 🧺 #littleplayplanetayr

Wee visit to the Burns Centre Alloway for the Baird’s birthday @SACEarlyYears @ScotChildmind #BurnsNight2023

Exploring light and shadows this morning using the colour paddles @SACEarlyYears @ScotChildmind

Parachute games turned into a tent turned into estimating how many decorations can be put on the tent before it collapses #childledlearning #stem #literacy #numeracy @SACEarlyYears

We are making our Advent Calendar today - who would have thought we could have fun with pattern, colours, counting, sharing equally, counting forwards & backwards & number order

As a registered childminder who provides meals for children I must be registered as a Food Business and with that comes an occasional inspection. Today’s result was a……

Usually used for dice games today the littlest one is building up his finger strength and hand-eye coordination

We’re off on a wee adventure today. Have you got your ticket? @SACEarlyYears @ScotChildmind

RT @MrWithersKS1: Colour changes! Great science video!

After meeting our friendly postman we had lots of questions. We watched “Journey of a letter” on YouTube & discovered that a postman does more than deliver letters. We have written our own letters to our families. Watch your postboxes. @SACEarlyYears @ScotChildmind @RoyalMail

A fun morning at Little Play Planet this morning where we explored lots of careers @SACEarlyYears @ScotChildmind @littleplayplanet #careersday #myworldofwork

Using the colour changing moonlight to play with colours @SACEarlyYears @ScotChildmind

Inspired by our Hallowe’en light and a weekend trip to the theatre we have worked together to build a shadow theatre. We have spent the afternoon setting up our scenes and telling each other fabulous stories @SACEarlyYears @earlyyearsscot @ScotChildmind

We used a scratch art kit before the holidays to make masks. As we are very curious little people we wanted to know how it’s made. So we investigated and then made our own scratch art paper - do you know what the magic ingredient is? @SACEarlyYears @ScotChildmind @earlyyearsscot

Today we have been enjoyed learning about the story of Diwali and made our own lights to take home. The children also built a bridge with a trail of jewels so Rama could rescue Sita @SACEarlyYears @ScotChildmind

This morning we have collected, investigated, shared equally, ordered by size and washed the windfall apples @SACEarlyYears @ScotChildmind

“Conkers, I’m collecting conkers” (Out of the Ark Music) Do you like our conker snake…..?!? @SACEarlyYears @ScotChildmind

All in a morning’s play…..

RT @rcsltscot: Great news for Scotland! @scotgov have committed to invest in early intervention in speech and language. ‘Over the next thre…