Indoor learning at Cuddly Ducklings childminder
The setting offers many indoor learning opportunities. Children can choose what they want to play with or access already set activities. They build their social skills and learn from each other. At Cuddly Ducklings children access many resources and activities. They benefit from the free play as well as adult led activities. Throughout the day children play and explore, developing their skills, enriching vocabulary while having a lovely time with their peers.
Free Play
Free play is a great tool for children to explore and learn about the world around. It helps children to learn how to interact with others and understand their own feelings and emotions. When it comes to free play, the concept of choice is crucial. Children are choosing what they want to do and how they want to do it. They develop social skills such as sharing, negotiating and turn taking.
Carpet Time
Carpet time is an adult led learning time when children get to know numbers, shapes, colours, letters and sounds, days of the week, months of the year as well as nursery rhymes and songs.
Skils Development
In my setting children are provided with adult led activities that target development of certain skills. Children benefit from finger gym, counting and sorting activities, arts and crafts, little phonics, writing activities etc.
Story Time
Story time is a wonderful tool to sparkle children’s imagination, develop listening and communication skills and improve concentration and memory. Picture books provide children with opportunities to learn new words and encourage them to talk. Story time inspires children free play and creativity.
Music and Dance
At Cuddly Ducklings we love music and we listen to it all day. We listen to children’s music and join in singing along, we listen to classical and film music and learn to recognise the sounds instruments make, we listen to instrumental music and learn to relax, we listen to party music and we dance!
Nick Batchelor
Cuddly Ducklings provides a home from home experience for babies and young children - a loving, safe, fun environment where their ever-changing needs are met consistently. The team work harmoniously with parents to ensure a true team approach, always with aim of providing the very best start for all children. The environment is highly nurturing and children feel safe. They are actively encouraged to be themselves whilst discovering the world around them. Early learning is pitched perfectly to ensure engaging activities that challenge and extend skills and knowledge appropriately. From nutritious home-cooked food, to almost daily local trips and nature walks, and even frequent exposure to other languages to enhance the already language rich environment, there is nothing missing from the provision at Cuddly Ducklings. As a parent who is a SEN teacher, with a partner who is a SENCO and school leader, we have no reservation is stating that this should, without question, be rated as the equivalent of 'Outstanding' at the next OFSTED inspection. Highly recommend.
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Melis Penic Gumus
I am a mum with VERY high standards for my kids care and I can gladly say our experience has been incredible ❤️ I never felt I was leaving my daughter for care, it felt as if I was dropping her off with a neighbor or a friend. Both Marta and Anita are very trustworthy and you can feel they care for your child’s well being. I felt there was always love available for my daughter and it breaks my heart that our time has come to an end. The other thing that impressed me was how clean and organized the house always was which created a sense of calm.
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DJ REMI
Finding Marta - Cuddly Ducklings was a blessing and we feel extremely lucky we have found her. She goes above and beyond in the care of her little ones and has been an incredible amazing help to us as this is our first baby. She constantly keeps us updated on our little man, gives us priceless advice and cares genuinely for the little ones even outside childcare hours when our little man was sick and she kept asking how he was and kept giving advice on several situations we encountered. Her knowledge and experience is priceless and she engages the little ones in activities to prepare them for life and for school later on. If you need a childminder, search no further and go meet Marta.
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