Mel Riches Childminding

🥬 ... Garden to plate ... 🥬

There's something very satisfying about growing your own ingredients to cook with! This is something I really want to increase as time goes on! Hoping to extend with some deep planters so we can have some staples like potatoes and onions.
Today we're just utilising the herbs in a roasted tomato pasta sauce, which will also double up as pizza sauce later in the week. But we currently have growing:
🟢thyme
🟢parsley
🟢chives
🟢mint
🟢strawberries
🟢raspberries
🟢rhubarb
🟢beans
🟢pumpkins

Wish us luck for a decent harvest 🤩

🏠 🛖 ... Home Book ... 🏚 🏡

Thank you all for your pictures contributing to the home book. Its now complete and looks like this so if you see it laying around feel free to look at it, or ask to see it 🙃

The aim of this was to link home and setting. Children are expected to make connections between features of their family and also notice differences in people. This will be a useful tool to support that. It also aims to help children identify things that 'belong' to them (with a lack of a better phrase!) And those that belong to someone else.

We had also added some familiar locations to our dolls house, further building their sense of community and provide new language and narrative opportunities for role play.

Finally, I've done a little online refresher course regarding equality and diversity over the holidays just to finish us off.

Last term upcoming. See you all next week for summer! 🌞