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].

At Budlake.....Next week our book is called Tiddler by Julia Donaldson, our word of the week is personality and sign is ...
07/09/2025

At Budlake.....Next week our book is called Tiddler by Julia Donaldson, our word of the week is personality and sign is me/you. This week our book is all about being yourself so we will be learning all about ourselves and others during this week’s activities. In the mark making area we will be drawing self portraits using our photo for reference and mirrors to help us see what features we have. We will be talking all about the similarities and differences we have with others such as blue eyes or brown hair. In the small world area, we will be exploring an under the sea small world with fish, sand, water and other sea animals plus added sensory bottles for a calming experience during our imaginative play. We will be beginning to share our play ideas with our friends whilst exploring this tray and seeking our others to play with. In the garden we will be exploring blue glittery playdough with shells, stones and rollers. We will be exploring the texture of the dough with added materials and using describing words to tell others about the textures we feel.

Next week for letters and sounds we will be taking part in activities such as reading rhyming books and looking for words that rhyme in our favourite books. We will also be completing activities such odd one out and I know the word.



This week our books has been the colour monster and we have been learning all about our emotions. In the sand area we created a zen garden we used the rakes to create marks in the sand and had a go and using our fingers to draw our names in the sand as well. In the water area we created our own sensory bottles and coloured them to match different emotions such as red for anger and yellow for happy. We loved shaking them and watching the glitter swirl around and fall. In the garden we have enjoyed doing some colour sorting using pom poms and counting bears and sorting them into different coloured bowls.

At Bovey....This week our book has been the Tiger who came to tea, our number is 6 and our letters and sounds aspect is ...
07/09/2025

At Bovey....This week our book has been the Tiger who came to tea, our number is 6 and our letters and sounds aspect is 1 . We have had lots of fun having tea parties in the role play area with our giant tiger and lots of pretend cakes, cups and saucers. We have explored the wild animals in straw and spaghetti and making lots of animal noises. On our art table we have torn lots of strips of orange paper and made lots of tigers, we have painted with tea bags and free drawn our own tigers . We have again been constructing with large blocks and tools and making lots of movements with our large cars on the car mat.

Outside , in between the showers, we have role played with the kitchen and food, played with sand and water and ridden on our bikes and cars.

Our letters and sounds have been mouth movements, voice sounds and singing songs.

Next week our boof is What makes me Me , our number is 7 and our letters and sounds aspect is 1. We will be drawing and painting lots of self portraits, making faces from playdough and drawing around each other. We will be drawing around hands and feet and practising how to put our shoes and socks on and off, practising our golden rules and building with lego and small octons. Outside we will have sand and water and our play kitchen. We will also be throwing and catching small balls and throwing them into a bucket.

At Honiton....Next week at Honiton we are learning about Colour. The book of the week is a ‘Elmer’ Our number of the wee...
07/09/2025

At Honiton....Next week at Honiton we are learning about Colour. The book of the week is a ‘Elmer’ Our number of the week is number4. Our sign and word of the week is Colour.

In our cube times we will be talking about colour. We will be using the primary colours and paintbrushes to mix them together. I wonder what makes orange? We will also be exploring colours around the room, what colours we are wearing as well as out favourite colour. Our activities this week are making our own patchwork Elmers with different coloured tissue paper, where we will be recognising the different colours that Elmer wears. In the mark making area we will be using colour sensory bags where we will use the primary colours and our fingers to mid them together. I wonder what makes green? We will be encouraging fine motor skills and pre writing techniques. In the garden we will be exploring a potions colour tray with different colours water, potions bottle as well looking at the colour charts to see what colours we can make in our potion’s bottles.



This week we have been learning all about Dinosaurs. we have loved engaging in our cube times to learn all the different facts about dinosaurs. we have learnt some key words like carnivore, herbivore and extinct. We have loved looking at fossils and learning the different dinosaur names. Inside we have been using the dinosaur fossils and skeletons to make marks in our playdough as well as hide them in our playdough to crack open like a Dinosaur egg. In the garden we have really enjoyed using the paint to print our Dinosaur footprints. We have been talking about what Dinosaurs have the biggest feet as well as what dinosaur has the smallest.

At Budlake....The babies have been exploring the sand using the buckets and spades to making sand castles and doing some...
07/09/2025

At Budlake....The babies have been exploring the sand using the buckets and spades to making sand castles and doing some arts and crafts with glitter glue and cellophane.

At Whipton....Next week we have two books of the week – Titch by Pat Hutchings and Life is a Rainbow by Stephanie Moss. ...
07/09/2025

At Whipton....Next week we have two books of the week – Titch by Pat Hutchings and Life is a Rainbow by Stephanie Moss.  Our word of the week is ‘feelings’ and our Makaton signs are happy, sad, big and small. Our number is 6.

 

We will be focussing on ‘All about me’ – how we grow and learn, our families and our feelings and emotions. 

In the creative area we will be exploring a range of mark making materials to draw pictures of our families and paint rainbows – talking about important people, who we live with and making connections to the world around us.

We will have rainbow rice in the exploratory tray hiding pictures of different emotions to talk about and describe.  We will talk about and validate our feelings and discuss strategies for supporting ourselves or asking for help when we feel sad or angry.

Outside we will go on a scavenger hunt to find a range of natural materials that are big or small and have large scale painting for big and small movements.  In the water tray we will have a water that’s a different colour of the rainbow each day to help us learn our colours.

In focus time we will be developing our recognition of numerals and counting using compare bears and ordering pictures by size – small, medium and large.  We will work on holding scissors to use for snipping and cutting.

Our feelings box will also be used for looking at pictures of scenarios to open up discussions about golden rules, feelings and what people in the pictures might be feeling – labelling the emotions and posting them into the correct boxes.

 

This week we have had great fun playing with a whole host of vehicles alongside wild animals, printing, painting, digging in the sand, playing and learning outside.  We have welcomed lots of new starters at nursery who are at the beginning of their learning journey.  Welcome to Little Ones everyone!

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.,

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