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We’ve just had a fantastic afternoon at the CBSO (City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra) at an Olympic themed classical concert for children. It began with an art workshop where medals and Olympic flames were produced by the bucketload before the … Continue reading
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It was National Childminding Week this week and the theme was aspirations. So what is an aspiration? An aspiration is a strong desire to achieve something. It is our job as adults to provide opportunities for children to develop the … Continue reading
A great big thank you to one of our Dads who was inspired by our aspirations blog and brought us some model lorries and a bendy train from his work at a freight company (please correct me if I’m wrong!). They linked in nicely with our passion with vehicles and added to our daily play with cars and trains.
The models have sparked lots of activities – we’ve talked about working with lorries, introduced new vocabulary such as cab/trailer/container/freight, we’ve given the small world farm animals rides ont he trucks, looked at ‘over’/’under’/’through’ as we’ve built roads and bridges with building blocks and we’ve even played with mathematics as we’ve folded the bendy train in half to make two trains!!!
Thanks Jason 🙂
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National Childminding Week is taking place this year from 4 to 11 June and the theme of the week is aspirations – role models, goals for the future, skills for life… One thing we love doing already in relation to … Continue reading
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