Little Ones Childcare

Little Ones Childcare Little Ones Childcare- providing high quality childcare and early education. Nurseries based in Budlake, Honiton, Whipton and Bovey Tracey

Contacting us....if you would like some more information regarding Little Ones please find our individual nursery details in the 'Our Nurseries' section of this site. Alternatively you can contact our head office for more general advice on 01392 469909 or [email protected] You can also email Katie Porter direct on [email protected].

With so many of our school leavers having their first days at school this week I wanted to take this opportunity to say ...
02/09/2025

With so many of our school leavers having their first days at school this week I wanted to take this opportunity to say a massive thank you- thank you for allowing us to be a part of your child’s early years- we have loved every moment (well almost every moment!) Being trusted to take care of the most precious things in your lives is an honour and a pleasure… so thank you for choosing Little Ones!

So many of our children come to us as tiny babies barely even able to sit up on their own… and now we are waving them off as funny, happy, clever, knowledgeable, confident little people with amazing personalities, full of life and excitement for what lies ahead. Your place in our hearts has been firmly cemented and we will always remember you!

Thank you to all our amazing parents for their gifts, cards and kind comments- we really do appreciate them all. Please don’t forget us… we love having visits… and love to see pictures of our Little Ones in their school uniforms!!

I found this poem on 'Emma's blog' last week and thought it was very relevant! (Tissues needed!)

Dear Teacher,

“I know you’re rather busy, first day back, there’s just no time, a whole new class of little ones and this one here is mine.

I’m sure you have things covered and have done this lots before, but my boy is very little, he hasn’t long turned four.

In his uniform this morning, he looked so tall and steady, but now beside your great big school I’m not quite sure he’s ready.

Do you help them eat their lunch? Are you quick to soothe their fears? And if he falls and hurts his knee will someone dry his tears?

And what if no-one plays with him? What if someone’s mean? What if two kids have a fight and he’s caught in between?

You’re right, I have to leave now it’s time for him to go I’m sure he’ll learn so much from you, things that I don’t know.

Yes, I’m sure they settle quickly, that he’s fine now without me, I know he has to go to school, it’s just so fast.

You see, it seems like just a blink ago I first held him in my arms, it’s been my job to love, to teach, to keep him safe from harm.

So, when I wave goodbye in a moment and he turns to walk inside, forgive me if I crumple into tears of loss and pride.

I know as I give him one more kiss and watch him walk away, that he’ll never again be wholly mine as he was before today “

From xx’s mummy

Dear Parent,

I understand that you are scared to wave your child goodbye and leave him in a teacher’s hands – don’t worry if you cry!

I’m used to weeping parents, it’s hard to leave I know. But it’s time to share him (just a bit) to help him learn and grow.

Let me reassure you that I’ll give your child my best, I’ll wipe his tears, soothe his fears and change his dirty vest!

If your darling child is full of cold I’ll blow their nose all day, just like you, I’ll care for them in a special way.

I’ll treat him like I would my own I’ll catch him from a fall and if there is ANY problem I’ll be sure to tell you all.

It’s true he’ll grow to love us, they’ll talk of school a lot, it doesn’t mean they hate you and that you should lose the plot! I’ll tell you a secret…That when your child is here, they talk to me as much of you of this please have no fear.

You’ll always be their mother, whilst teachers come and go, to them you are their number one, this I truly know.

Soon you’ll see some changes, in your little girl or boy, they’ll become more independent and to see this, it’s a joy!

I’ll teach them all I have to give, to share, climb and to write, but to you they safely will return to tuck them in at night.

With love from a teacher ""

At Honiton....This week in the baby room at Honiton we have been thinking about our families.We have been making funny f...
29/08/2025

At Honiton....This week in the baby room at Honiton we have been thinking about our families.

We have been making funny faces with pasta and pointing at our features in the mirrors.

Also this week we have been building some amazing towers with the mega blocks and spinning the cogs!

We have loved playing our favourite tunes with the musical instruments.

Next week is dinosaur week! we will be making dinosaur footprints in paint and in the garden we will have a dinosaur swamp, we will be practicing our loudest roars!

At Bovey...This week our book has been the rainbow fish , our number is 5 and our letters and sounds aspect is 5. We hav...
29/08/2025

At Bovey...This week our book has been the rainbow fish , our number is 5 and our letters and sounds aspect is 5. We have read the book of the rainbow fish and have learnt that sharing and being kind .  is very important . In the big room we have finger painted and collaged lots of fish , we have painted a giant chalk fish with round makeup pads on it with paint and explored the sand with lots of shiny material in it.

We have been building with blocks and used our tools to build with and have loved making the giant toot too train track.

Outside we have had lots of water and sea animals and we have explored , close up, a real fish. The children were able to see the scales, gills, tail, mouth and tongue and did you know that fish have teeth.A big thank you to Jonas Fishmongers of Brixham for the fish he donated for the children to observe.

Our letters and sounds have been odd one out, silly soup , name and mirror play. The children have also enjoyed counting to 5 and using their fingers to make this number.

Next week our book is the tiger who came to tea , our number is 6v and letters and sounds is aspect 6. We will have a giant tiger in the role play area where we will be having lots of tea parties  and making lots of different versions of tigers , using various materials.  In the tuff tray we will have wild animals and outside we will have water and lots of various tea bags to make our own tea with .

On Friday afternoon we will be having a tiger tea party and have lots of party tea with our cuddlies.

At Honiton...Next week at Honiton we are learning about Dinosaurs. The book of the week is a ‘Dinosaur Rumpus’ Our numbe...
29/08/2025

At Honiton...Next week at Honiton we are learning about Dinosaurs. The book of the week is a ‘Dinosaur Rumpus’ Our number of the week is number 3. Our sign and word of the week is Dinosaur.  

 In our cube times we will be talking about the different dinosaurs that were on earth as well as seeing if we know what they are called. We will also be using key words like Extinct, herbivore and carnivore. Our activities this week is using pasta shapes to make our Dinosaur skeletons. We will be copying different dinosaur skeletons as well as using our imagination. Inside we will also be pressing dinosaur fossils into salt dough to bake them so that we can paint them and take them home. Outside we will be using dinosaurs in paint to print the different footprints into paper. We will be exploring what animals might have made the print, what shapes they are as well as the size.

 

Over the past few weeks, we have had so much fun at nursery. We got to hold the pipe for the screed to go down in our extension, we have been going out to the park as well as a visit into town. This week we have been learning ‘All about me’ we have been talking about who is in our families, who is important to us, what do we look like as well as talking about our family trees. We have learnt all about the adult’s family trees as well as doing our own. In the mark making area we have made our own self-portraits, by using mirrors and our own printed pictures to draw all our features as well as drawing our families. In the garden we have been matching the shapes to the people of the tuff tray and inside me have made our own faces using playdough, some of us made our friends or the adults we made sure that everyone had eyes, ears, noses, and mouths.

At Budlake....Next week our book of the week is called The Colour Monster by Anna Llenas our word of the week is emotion...
29/08/2025

At Budlake....Next week our book of the week is called The Colour Monster by Anna Llenas our word of the week is emotions and our sign is Happy. This week we will be learning all about our emotions and feelings we will be talking all about what makes us happy and sad and what we do in these situations. In the mark making area we will be exploring a zen garden using sand, rakes, stones and shells. We will be using the rakes to make marks in the sand using our gross motor movements and decorating our zen gardens with shells and stones. Whilst making our gardens we will be listening relaxing music and talking about how we can regulate our own emotions. In the water tray we will be making our own sensory bottles using water, glitter, pom poms and other decorations we will be using mathematical language such as full and empty when filling our bottles. In the garden next week we will be exploring a colour monster sorting tray with lots of different coloured objects to sort into sections and name.



Next week for letters and sounds we will be completing activities such as actions songs where sing our favourite songs with actions such as if your happy and you know it will also be taking part in roly poly this is where we use our arms and sing Roly poly ever so slowly Roly poly faster whilst moving our arms fast and slow why not give this a go at home.



This week we have been learning all about Goldilocks and the three bears we have been using language of too big, small, too hot, too cold etc. in the sand area we explored oats with teddy bears and bowls just like in our story we filled our bowls with oats using spoons and fed our porridge to our teddy bears. In the small world area, we took part in a teddy bears picnic we loved sitting together and making pretend cups of tea for each other and having conversations about what we were doing. In the garden we have been doing lots of building with the mega blokks and wooden blocks we made houses, towers and amazing structures working together with our friends.

At Whipton....This week in the Big Room we have loved learning all about space and rockets! Our book of the week was Wha...
29/08/2025

At Whipton....This week in the Big Room we have loved learning all about space and rockets! Our book of the week was Whatever Next and the children enjoyed using their imaginations, just like Baby Bear, to go on space adventures. We mixed potions in the garden using natural ingredients, created large-scale moon-themed art, and even built our own rockets from recycled materials to see whose would travel the furthest! Inside, the children role-played astronauts and mission control crew, taking turns being Baby Bear, Owl, and the moon picnic guests. During Focus Time, they made moon creatures and aliens from natural treasures, stick astronauts, and even tried their hand at constellation threading with card, hole punches, and yarn. It’s been such a magical week of creativity, imagination, and adventure!
Next week our book of the week will be: All About Me! We’re looking forward to a fun and busy week ahead! Sorry...no photos this week due to technical difficulties.

At Bovey....This week we have been discussing occupations and what we would like to be when we grow up. Outside we have ...
10/08/2025

At Bovey....This week we have been discussing occupations and what we would like to be when we grow up. Outside we have been building lots of walls and roads using the large construction and sand and water,building with our duplo and putting out a large flame , on a tuff tray, with the spray bottles.

Inside we have had a post office with lots of letters and envelopes . Then the children were able to dress up in post office uniform and deliver with large post office bags. We have also had a hospital where we bandaged each other and used our medical equipment. The children really enjoyed being bakes and making lots of cakes with the playdough and cup cake cases. On our craft table we made models with recycling objects, made police cars and ambulances from paper plates and large boxes. The children then took the large boxes outside to pretend play as police and ambulance people. In focus time we practised being hairdressers by cutting up spaghetti and trying not to eat it .

Our letters and sounds is aspect 2 and we put new words to old songs , for the song the wheels on the bus. , musical show and tell and guessing which instrument. Our number is 2 and the word is bus for the song the wheels on the bus.

Our book next week is Mayas walk, our number is 3 , aspect for letters and sounds is 3 and our word is rainbow. Inside we will have our dark tent with lights and lots of sensory objects to see, feel, hear and taste. On the craft table we will have paint in zip lock bags to feel and squish make a collage of herbs and flowers and paint rainbows. Outside we will have water with ice and herbs in and sand with lots of pasta and rice in.,

At Budlake....Next week our story will be tractor ted by Alexsandra Heard our word of the week is farmyard and our sign ...
10/08/2025

At Budlake....Next week our story will be tractor ted by Alexsandra Heard our word of the week is farmyard and our sign is cow. In the small world area, we will be exploring a animal and vegetable farm in the tuff tray using the small world farm animals and real-life vegetables such as radishes, potatoes and tomatoes in soil and hay with tractors just like a real working farm. We will be talking about where our food comes from and what vegetables need to grow. In the mark making area we will be having a go at making our own maps of a farm yard, drawing enclosed spaces such as squares to indicate fields and paddocks and marking out where all the different animals may be kept. Next week in the garden we will be using the tractors and diggers to make patterns in the mud by pushing the wheels backwards and forwards.

 

Next week during letters and sounds we will be taking part in activities such as voice sounds this is where we look at cards with different sounds on such as whee for a slide or mooo for a cow. We will also be taking part in singing our favourite songs and making animal noises.

 

This week our story was called when summer comes and we learnt all about how to stay safe in summer such as wearing our hats, drinking lots of water and wearing our suncream. We have loved making beautiful suncatchers which you will be able to see on display in the coming weeks at nursery. We also made and decorated our own sunglasses with glitter, pipe cleaners and tin foil and made ice creams using sand with pipe cleaner sprinkles, scoops and bowls. We talked about the different flavoured ice creams we liked and used mathematical language to discuss cost and the amount of scoops we were adding. In the garden this week we made our own slip and slide water slide we loved racing down the slide and seeing how far we could slide on the tarp.

At Bovey....Over the past couple of weeks in our bany room, the two stories we have had in our story box are ‘Each, Peac...
10/08/2025

At Bovey....Over the past couple of weeks in our bany room, the two stories we have had in our story box are ‘Each, Peach, Pear, Plum’ and ‘We’re going on a bear hunt’.

We had lots of fun printing with different fruit. We smelt the fruit before putting it in the paint and then we used it to make prints on our paper. We’ve also explored a sensory tray that had water, flour, real and artificial grass, sticks, wood logs and a cave with a bear inside. We made prints in the flour as if it was footprints in the snow and we used our hands to splash in the water. We’ve have had so much fun!

At Whipton....Next week our book of the week is ‘Going on a Plane’ a Biff, Chip and Kipper story.  Our word of the week ...
10/08/2025

At Whipton....Next week our book of the week is ‘Going on a Plane’ a Biff, Chip and Kipper story.  Our word of the week will be holiday and our Makaton signs – holiday and aeroplane. Our number is 2.
Please please if you have a spare holiday photo of your children somewhere lovely near or far – could you send it in for us to make our ‘where in the world’ map of the world?
We will be carrying on with our holiday theme that has really captured our interests this week.  There will be a role play aeroplane and airport terminal with baggage reclaim with our grown ups playing alongside and modelling imaginative play. In the mark making area there will be luggage labels to write on and post cards to write to our family and friends to pop into the post box we have made.
In the front garden we will be having camping fun and toasting marshmallows around the firepit (bbq) as well as using clay to make tree faces.  We will be serving and selling playdough ice creams in the ice cream shop and in our beach area we will be using both our imagination and gross motor skills to build sand castles and we will be using paint and glue to create our own sand pictures and melty ice creams.
In focus time we will be developing our fine motor and creative skills to draw, paint, cut and stick to pack a suitcase with the right clothes for the right holidays.  We will be making fruit smoothies and sunshine biscuits – cutting our ingredients, measuring and weighing as well as talking about cause and effect.
This week the children have really surprised us with their levels of engagement and interaction, the holiday theme has been lots of fun BUT the lemonade stand has really captured their imagination and everything has really spun off from this – we have squeezed lemons and made our own lemonade, made lemon drizzle cake and also had pancakes with lemon and sugar.  The lemonade stand has had copious amounts of real lemons, limes and oranges and little plastic ice cubes and each day we have been ‘making drinks’ for each other. We have even used lemons and limes for printing in paint and we made our own fish shaped wrap pizzas served up on lemon paper plates.

At Honiton....Next week at Honiton we are learning about Holidays. The book of the week is a ‘What the Ladybird heard on...
10/08/2025

At Honiton....Next week at Honiton we are learning about Holidays. The book of the week is a ‘What the Ladybird heard on holiday’ Our number of the week is number 10. Our sign and word of the week is Beach 

 In our cube times we will be talking about where we have been on holiday. Did you go on a plane? Did you drive in a car? Did anyone go on a big ship?  Was it a caravan holiday or did you go somewhere hot. We will be looking at places that we can go around the world by looking at out globe. We will be sharing pictures of our holidays during our cube times to show our friends. Our activities this week are role play airport, where we will be going aboard our Little One’s airline plane, we will be using our passports to get onboard the aircraft as well as checking in our luggage. In our creative area we will be decorating our own surf bords using pens, crayons, and sequins. In the garden we will be playing in our tuff tray with our beach. We will be using sand water and exploring our sea animals and small world people in our tray to pretend that we are on a beach in Tenerife

During the week we have loved learning about gardening. We have planted our own sunflower seeds as well as learnt how to take care of all our seeds. We need sunlight and water for our plants to grow. Inside we have made our own sunflowers with cardboard rolls that have petal shapes to stamp onto our paper. we have also been using our fine motor skills to pour and empty our rice exploratory tray.

 

If you have any pictures at home from recently holidays we would love to share them at our cube times.

At Honiton....This week the Babies at Honiton have had a lovely time during our festival week.We made some feathery head...
03/08/2025

At Honiton....This week the Babies at Honiton have had a lovely time during our festival week.

We made some feathery head dresses to look the part at our festival we used our fine motor skills to put glue on and stick our feathers to the card we enjoyed choosing which feathers to use.



Outside we enjoyed playing hook a duck in the water we had a fishing rod to try and catch the ducks

We sang 5 little ducks and made quacking sounds which made us laugh.

Next week we will be exploring soil, we will be digging and scooping into our flowerpots and trying to grow some sunflowers to take home. We will be getting creative using our fingers to paint some flowers.

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